From a story by Rick Caitlin in The Islander: The Anna Maria City Commission agreed that this popular tourist destination does not have enough money to pay lifeguards to protect families using the city’s beaches: The suggestion for lifeguards came after a 14-year-old boy from Winter Haven was caught in a strong current along the […]
This is my message to parents and family members about taking kids into the surf at the beach. Whereas the beach is not a swimming pool, and Whereas the surf can be powerful and create dangerous and sudden currents, and Whereas the surf can appear much smaller from the beach than it actually is, and […]
This Saturday I’ll be giving a 35-40 minute talk , illustrated with some Power Point slides, about beach safety, based on a portion of the content of my Beach Survival Guide which is available online here for free. Stop by and say hi if you’re in the neighborhood at 10:30 Saturday morning. Cocoa Beach Public […]
It’s still FREE! Back in 2005 I wrote an e-book about staying safe at the beach and offered it for free on my web site. Since that time I’ve gotten countless emails from people telling me how much they like it and how much they learned from it. Many have even wanted to purchase a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
