New Zealand has the highest drowning rate in the OECD.
A lack of supervision of young children and too many men thinking they are bulletproof has contributed towards the worst drowning toll in eight years, Water Safety New Zealand says.
More people drowned in 2011 than in any of the last eight years, with 123 people drowning in New Zealand waters, five of those drowning in the Wellington region.
Last year's national toll was 41 per cent higher than in 2010, and is the worst drowning toll on record since 2003.
And more children died than in any year since 2002, with fourteen pre-schoolers - aged under five - drowning last year.
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