Florida Beaches

Travel & Outdoor

Sharks are present off Florida’s coast year-round, and understanding their behavior is essential for safe swimming, surfing, and diving. This evergreen explainer covers which...

health-safety

Flesh-eating bacteria is a commonly used term for certain fast-spreading bacterial infections, often involving Vibrio vulnificus, a naturally occurring bacterium in warm coastal...

safety-and-wellness

On a weekday in late August, a recreational swimmer at Seacrest Beach in South Walton County, Florida, was bitten by a shark after entering the surf zone. The individual sustain...

coastal-safety

Rip tides in Florida are powerful, channeled currents of water moving away from shore that form when incoming and outgoing water converge and accelerate through narrow pathways...