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TAKEN WITH THE TIDE
The Dangers of San Francisco's Deadliest Beach
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Where the Pacific fog greets the City by the Bay, there lies a three-mile stretch of coast — alluring more than a million annual visitors with captivating views of its golden horizon and mighty, barreling waves. For some, this beauty is short-lived as Ocean Beach takes multiple victims each year with the life-threatening risks that linger behind its postcard reputation.
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PART 2
DEATHS AT OCEAN BEACH
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Over the last several decades, the Golden Gate National Recreation Area has compiled data on Ocean Beach fatalities. The circumstances of recorded deaths are as follows: