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An Australian weatherman jumped into the surf off the Gold Coast on Friday to retrieve a body that had been missing since Thursday, 9News reports. Luke Bradnam, a reporter for Channel Nine in Australia, had just finished filming a live segment about the treacherous conditions in Narrowneck when he saw someone that he believed to be struggling […]
Where better to spend a global pandemic than a tropical island? For remote workers looking for the opportunity to escape their home for the first time in months, Hawaii is offering people who are working from home the perfect long term getaway. Through a new program called “Movers and Shakas,” the state is giving away […]
The number of fatalities due to shark attacks has been steadily growing in Australia. The country saw its eighth death this year on Sunday morning when a man was bit by a shark at Cable Beach in Western Australia, NBC News reports. The popular tourist spot is on the country’s Indian Ocean coast. The attack occurred […]
Last week, the job of a select group of U.S. Border Patrol agents was made very easy when a cocaine shipment with an estimated value of more than $1 million simply washed onto the shore of a beach in Florida, per CNN. That load of narcotics, which was in 30 packages, was found last Monday by […]
Australia’s southeast coast has seen its second fatal shark attack this week. NBC News reports that on Saturday, an unidentified 15-year-old boy was mauled by a shark off the Australian coast. The teenager was surfing at Wooli Beach, about 370 miles north of Sydney when the incident took place just before 2:30 p.m. local time […]
We all knew that once the weather started getting nicer that it would become increasingly more difficult to follow the self-quarantine order that is in place for many states due to the rapid spread of COVID-19. Well, one New Yorker learned that the hard way when he got arrested for violating the stay-at-home order during […]
With more and more states slowly planning to reopen public spaces closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, it has been announced that beaches and lakes across Jersey Shore will open back up soon. The move was announced by New Jersey governor Phil Murphy, who said that the Jersey Shore will be reopened for Memorial Day weekend, citing […]
Gov. Brian Kemp faced backlash this week after issuing an executive order that effectively reopened Georgia’s beaches, the New York Times reports. The shelter-in-place order superseded local mandates related to coronavirus, which meant any municipality that prohibited public access to its beaches would be forced to reopen them to the public. “The Governor’s Executive Order suspends the enforcement of […]
Earlier this week, horrifying images of thousands of spring breakers crowding onto Florida’s Clearwater Beach in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic surfaced online, sparking widespread outrage. Now, five Florida college students have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19. The students—who attend the University of Tampa—were tested during spring break, CBS-affiliated WKBN reports. They vacationed together, along with other […]
It appears that Florida spring breakers have disregarded social distancing guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic. Photos and videos that have surfaced online show Clearwater Beach crowded with thousands of tourists who are swimming and lying next to each other. Despite the fact that coronavirus is fast spreading, people are to going to swim at […]
