mapusa the tourism season has started this year with a bang with hordes of indian tourists descending upon goa during the diwali vacation the last four days saw a massive wave of tourists arriving mostly from the neighbouring states of maharashtra and karnataka the popular beaches of calangute and baga witnessed huge crowds of indian tourists mainly families with schoolgoing children the rush of travelers was such that the roads at arpora calangute and baga were unable to contain the flow of traffic the roads could not accommodate heavy traffic going to the beaches causing major bottlenecks at almost all the the junctions the calangute junction was the most congested one during the past four days calangute has been witnessing a substantial increase in arrivals of indian tourists looking out for accommodation and restaurants on sunday the calangute beach was packed several foreign tourists were seen lying on the beach sunbathing while indian tourists arriving in small and large groups entered the waters giving the lifeguards a tough time in controlling them as many as eight tourists were rescued along the calangutebaga stretch on sunday in a major rescue suraj mengwar of dehradun was rescued by a lifeguard and shifted to hospital where his condition was reported as stable there is no time to eat food or drink water the crowd is just uncontrollable we are on our toes saving lives said lifeguard sunil matvankar who was on duty on sunday sidhesh paryekar and nikhil mahale who were on the watch towers said that the last four days were hectic and they had conducted dozens of rescue operations at calangute beach there are a total of 17 lifeguards on the calangute beach but this number is insufficient to cater to the quantum of tourists entering the waters