Category: Ocean Safety

Forget sharks, this is how you’re really likely to be hurt surfing. | SURFLINE.COM

Forget sharks, this is how you’re really likely to be hurt surfing. | SURFLINE.COM

One day a few years back, San Diego lifeguard Chad Cox was surfing a knee-high day in La Jolla’s clear waters. Zipping along an inside section, he could easily see the sandy bottom. But when the wave jacked up and closed out over a section of sandbar, Cox was flipped off headfirst so fast that he didn’t even have time to get his hands up. Cox instantly realized that the clarity of the water had made the water look deeper than it actually was. His head hit the bottom first.

“I felt my whole body go numb,” he says.

Source: www.surfline.com/surf-news/forget-sharks,-this-is-how-you’re-really-likely-to-be-hurt-surfing.-1_112632

Rare Condition Poses Danger to Surfers

Rare Condition Poses Danger to Surfers

Vacationing first-time surfers have been diagnosed with surfer’s myelopathy, a spinal injury that causes paralysis and has no cure. Many patients improve with physical therapy.

Source: abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5556152

Maui Now: California Man Medevaced from Nāpili Bay in Near-Drowning

Maui Now: California Man Medevaced from Nāpili Bay in Near-Drowning

An 81-year-old California man was medevaced to the Maui Memorial Medical Center in serious condition after a near-drowning incident at Nāpili Bay on Sunday.

Source: mauinow.com/2017/05/08/california-man-medevaced-from-napili-bay-in-near-drowning/

Stand Up Or Die: Snorkeling In Hawaii Is A Leading Cause Of Tourist…

Stand Up Or Die: Snorkeling In Hawaii Is A Leading Cause Of Tourist…

Breathing through a tube is uniquely challenging. And it can turn deadly for those who have health issues but don’t recognize the risk.

Source: www.civilbeat.org/2016/01/stand-up-or-die-snorkeling-in-hawaii-is-a-leading-cause-of-tourist-deaths/

Hawaii’s ‘Deadliest’ Beaches Might Surprise You

Hawaii’s ‘Deadliest’ Beaches Might Surprise You

Everyone has an opinion about Hawaii’s most beautiful beach. But deadliest? Most treacherous? The aloha state’s Department of Health has those two superl…

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/29/hawaii-deadliest-beaches_n_6550864.html

Way Too Many Tourists Are Dying In Paradise

Way Too Many Tourists Are Dying In Paradise

Including three this week.

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hawaii-tourist-deaths_us_572d512fe4b096e9f09197c9

Maui Now: New Study: 72% of Maui Ocean Drownings are Visitors

Maui Now: New Study: 72% of Maui Ocean Drownings are Visitors

New data shows that from 2007 – 2016, there were 873 drownings in Hawaiian waters, 690 or 79% were ocean related.

Source: mauinow.com/2017/08/31/new-study-72-of-maui-drownings-are-visitors/