Ormond, Coco, New Smyrna are Death’s favorite beaches. Image: Travel Lens
Beaches are nice places, aren’t they? Sun and sand and waves and water and all that good stuff. Swaying palms, wish you were heres, air filled with coconut sunscreen fumes, etcetera. But all is not as perfect as one might think. Danger lurks around every corner. He is but a whisper away, fingers steepled, grinning manically in the shadowy recess of even the most idyllic vacation destinations. A recent study has shone a light into those shadowy recesses, exposing that cloak-wearing scythe holder. He’s close, you guys. Especially if you live in Florida.
The study, conducted by Travel Lens, looked at American beaches and took three things into consideration when creating the list: surfing fatalities, hurricanes, and, because the search engines love them, shark attacks. And like I said, Florida is… not safe. In fact, there is a 100 percent chance that 100 percent of the people who spend their whole lives in Florida will die there. And that’s even if they never go to the beach!
The list of the 10 most dangerous beaches in America used the number of surf zone fatalities since 2010, the number of shark attacks since 2010, and the number of hurricanes between 1851 and 2020. Then it squashed all the data together and turned those numbers into a rating out of ten. So here, without further ado, are the top ten most dangerous beaches in the United States, according to a non-peer reviewed study by a travel blog.
Florida. Not safe! Image: Travel Lens
