beach safety

Don’t Get Ripped Off at the Beach – Stay Out of Rip Currents

September 2, 2010

With Hurricane Earl raging off Florida’s Atlantic Coast, this Labor Day weekend has the potential of having a sad ending for anyone attempting to swim in the powerful hurricane surf. Heavy surf generates powerful rip currents. Your favorite swimming beach may become unsafe in high surf. The annotations I made on the photo above show [...]

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Danger in the Water: How to Avoid Injury and Be Safe During Outdoor Water Sport Activities

May 17, 2010

Note: this is a guest blog post written by Jane Warren. Summer is almost here, and for those of us who have been cooped up this past Winter–and even Spring–with colder than normal weather and heavy rain, we are chomping at the bit to get outside! My favorite place is the beach, where I can [...]

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Beachcones Separate Cars & People

April 10, 2010

Every once in a while someone leaves a comment on my blog to promote their website, product, or service. Usually I delete those kinds of promotional comment posts. However, “Rich” left a comment on one of my posts this morning with a link promoting his orange beach safety cones. I thought it deserved mention, since [...]

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Florida Shark Bite Fatality Raises Important Questions About Beach Safety

February 6, 2010

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com I don’t usually make comments about shark bite incidents. Most shark bite reports in the newspapers and on news channels tend to lack enough detail to really explain what happened. This latest case of a kite surfer being fatally bitten south of Stuart Beach in Florida is different, and [...]

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Conquer Your Fear of the Water and Learn to Swim

September 28, 2009

Poste by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com Not everyone takes to the water like a fish. Many people have a fear of the water that prevents them from really enjoying all that our beaches, lakes, rivers, springs and swimming pools have to offer. According to Melon Dash of the Miracle Swimming Institute in Sarasota, Florida, regular [...]

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Lightning Strikes-Again

July 9, 2009

Posted by David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com. Every summer I am saddened to read about people killed by lightning while at the beach. Florida Today has a story of a 54 year old visitor from Oklahoma who was struck and killed by lightning while vacationing in Melbourne Beach with his family. If you can hear thunder, [...]

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