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Swimming fun despite the Wadden Sea is only possible in Büsum. The Perlebucht family lagoon attracts many holidaymakers to the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein every summer. What's special here is that guests can go swimming and do water sports at any time. In the past, you could only swim in the North Sea at high tide. The beach service and the technical service have a lot to do during the season so that tourists can enjoy their vacation on the lagoon and by the sea. Ralf Schlühr is the head of the technical service. Every day, a crew from the technical service ploughs up the sandy beach and cleans the water entrances on the main dike. The team regularly changes the water in the lagoon. For this, all conditions have to be right. This also applies to the four sleeping beach chairs that are prepared every evening by the beach service for overnight stays right by the sea. Bodo Schmidt loves customer service. At the beginning of the year, Bodo sold his guest house and now rents out beach chairs. He also checks the guest cards. Lilli Kohn comes to Büsum every year to work in the water sports school. Since the beginning of the season, she has been working as a kite instructor and is giving her first courses. Water sports are not without danger, so Lilli has to pay careful attention to the safety of her students. Since the lagoon is right on the coast, the entire infrastructure on the lagoon island will be dismantled from October. All beach chairs have to leave the dike at the end of the season. The risk of holes being torn in the dike during storm surges is too high during storm times. Büsum, as the third largest tourist destination on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein, with more than a million overnight guests in 2021, has invested a lot of money to position itself well for the future and the changes in tourism. More on the topic: https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendunge... First broadcast: August 3, 2022 #ndr #ndrdoku #sea