Most dangerous beaches

[Flint1979]

After looking at Google Maps in the Keweenaw Peninsula I came across a beach that I had traveled to when I clinched Houghton County. So it made me think of the most dangerous beaches out there because this is indeed one of them. The area I'm talking about is locally known as The Breakers (to anyone else it'd be called North Canal Township Park). I figured this beach was dangerous due to the fact that the water gets deep very quickly here this was all information from a guy I ran into there that told me he lives 2 miles away and that it's the most dangerous beach he's ever seen in his life, I agreed with him and just hung out there for a little while before leaving. Now that I came across this let's see where the most dangerous beach indeed is.

[oscar]

At least you don't have great white sharks hanging out around the Keweenaw Peninsula, as with some northern California beaches. Some Hawaii beaches also have a history of fatal shark attacks.

[Flint1979]

At least you don't have great white sharks hanging out around the Keweenaw Peninsula, as with some northern California beaches. Some Hawaii beaches also have a history of fatal shark attacks.

We don't have any of that on the Great Lakes. The water getting deep very quickly makes it dangerous, it's also one of the ugliest beaches I have ever seen.

Another Michigan beach, this one on Lake Michigan is one dangerous place too that being the Grand Haven State Park beach.

[MATraveler128]

One that comes to mind for Massachusetts is pretty much any beach on Plum Island in Newburyport. There have been numerous deaths due to rip currents.

[Max Rockatansky]

Pretty much anything in Big Sur due to terrain, rip tide and generally cold water.

[Rothman]

One that comes to mind for Massachusetts is pretty much any beach on Plum Island in Newburyport. There have been numerous deaths due to rip currents.

Pfft.  I've been swimming there.

I'm wondering how you measure danger.

[formulanone]

Queen's Bath in Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii is notably dangerous. Local stories say over 30 people have drowned in the last decade.

I chickened out, realizing I have very limited experience with walking on wet jagged rocks. My wife is less adventurous than myself, but even she wasn't 100% against the idea.

[mgk920]

Queen's Bath in Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii is notably dangerous. Local stories say over 30 people have drowned in the last decade.

I chickened out, realizing I have very limited experience with walking on wet jagged rocks. My wife is less adventurous than myself, but even she wasn't 100% against the idea.

The possible presence of jellyfish and crocodiles would give me pause in visiting many beaches in Australia.

Mike

[Hobart]

McKinley Beach in Milwaukee was so dangerous after a 1989 erosion control project that the entire beach has been closed since 2020. Four people drowned there in 2020 alone, so now there's a huge fence around it until the county can fix the rip current issues.

[Rothman]

Queen's Bath in Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii is notably dangerous. Local stories say over 30 people have drowned in the last decade.

I chickened out, realizing I have very limited experience with walking on wet jagged rocks. My wife is less adventurous than myself, but even she wasn't 100% against the idea.

The possible presence of jellyfish and crocodiles would give me pause in visiting many beaches in Australia.

Mike

Psst.  Jellyfish are practically everywhere.

[kphoger]

[mgk920]

Queen's Bath in Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii is notably dangerous. Local stories say over 30 people have drowned in the last decade.

I chickened out, realizing I have very limited experience with walking on wet jagged rocks. My wife is less adventurous than myself, but even she wasn't 100% against the idea.

The possible presence of jellyfish and crocodiles would give me pause in visiting many beaches in Australia.

Mike

Psst.  Jellyfish are practically everywhere.

Are they the Box and Irukandji jellies that are found in Australia?

Mike

[SectorZ]

One that comes to mind for Massachusetts is pretty much any beach on Plum Island in Newburyport. There have been numerous deaths due to rip currents.

Pfft.  I've been swimming there.

I'm wondering how you measure danger.

Probably by the amount of deaths that occur there, like most people.

Seabrook NH just to the north has its share of rip-current deaths.

[Rothman]

Queen's Bath in Princeville, Kauai, Hawaii is notably dangerous. Local stories say over 30 people have drowned in the last decade.

I chickened out, realizing I have very limited experience with walking on wet jagged rocks. My wife is less adventurous than myself, but even she wasn't 100% against the idea.

The possible presence of jellyfish and crocodiles would give me pause in visiting many beaches in Australia.

Mike

Psst.  Jellyfish are practically everywhere.

Are they the Box and Irukandji jellies that are found in Australia?

Mike

They're nettles and portuguese man-o-wars off Atlantic Ocean shores, which are plenty painful and sometimes fatal.

Plenty of stinging jellyfish on the Pacific Ocean side, too...

[JayhawkCO]

I'll nominate Chowpatty Beach in Mumbai, the most polluted beach in the world.

[TheHighwayMan3561]

Park Point Beach in Duluth usually sees Lake Superior claim a life or two every few years. The cold water and rip currents (which are not well comprehended by Midwesterners) as well as general humans being idiots contribute.

[KCRoadFan]

When I saw this post, I thought of that beach in the Caribbean - on St. Maarten, I believe - where planes fly very low overhead, due to the local airport being nearby.

[Jim]

Reynisfjara near Vik, Iceland, has a lot of warning signs about the dangers of "sneaker waves" there.  We visited on August 20, 2021, and did not get swept away while we were looking at the puffins.

[GaryV]

Reynisfjara near Vik, Iceland, has a lot of warning signs about the dangers of "sneaker waves" there. 

Well if the waves wore dress shoes, you'd hear them coming so they wouldn't be as dangerous.   

[plain]

I remember seeing online about these guys in Japan (they were American) visiting a beach that was home to a number of Sea Hawks. There were signs there that basically prohibited eating at the beach, and for good reason because a hawk tried to snatch a sandwich out of one of the guy's hands and wound up scratching him pretty good.

[Rothman]

I remember seeing online about these guys in Japan (they were American) visiting a beach that was home to a number of Sea Hawks. There were signs there that basically prohibited eating at the beach, and for good reason because a hawk tried to snatch a sandwich out of one of the guy's hands and wound up scratching him pretty good.

So dangerous.

My father was at a beach in Argentina with a friend that got bit by a penguin.  Stay away.  Next time that penguin'll take someone out.

[roadman65]

New Smyrna Beach, Florida with all its shark attacks. Locally the city is known as the Shark Bite Capital.

[Rothman]

New Smyrna Beach, Florida with all its shark attacks. Locally the city is known as the Shark Bite Capital.

32 shark attacks since 2010 there.  Chances still seem slim.

[GaryV]

New Smyrna Beach, Florida with all its shark attacks. Locally the city is known as the Shark Bite Capital.

32 shark attacks since 2010 there.  Chances still seem slim.

Worse than the Lake Michigan beaches that were listed upthread.   

[Rothman]

New Smyrna Beach, Florida with all its shark attacks. Locally the city is known as the Shark Bite Capital.

32 shark attacks since 2010 there.  Chances still seem slim.

Worse than the Lake Michigan beaches that were listed upthread.   

Hm.  I'd bet cold water kills more than sharks.