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NICK. ACRO. FILE PHOTOLifeguards come in from searching for a 60-year-old man who went missing on a Saturday morning in 2014 at Salt Creek Beach Park in Dana Point.Dangerous beautyO.C. beachgoers are reminded that a day in the surf can end in tragedy.Sy LAY LAN CONNELLYSTAFF WRITERFor most of the tens of millions of visitors to hit beaches in Orange County this summer, the ocean will serve as nature’s playground. - a place to swim orvolved alcohol or drugs. A few were the result of a severe injury.For the majority, the ocean’s force was simply too fierce.In most cases, a lifeguard - or, more likely, mail)' lifeguards - tried to stop them or save them or recover their body, or they risked their own life to help them.Sometimes, all of the above.The data on ocean deaths hint at someto hangout with family and friends, to relax.For a few, it’ll be a place to die.Over the past decade, at least 96 people have drowned in the area. from. Camp Pendleton to Seal Beach, according to coroner’s data.Some deaths were intentional. Others i**trends. People who die in local waters be men and boys, typically under 30. The county’s most popular and biggest beaches, in Huntington and New-port, tend tohave the most deaths.Butnumbers also hint at the randomSEE BEACH*PAGE 2 )
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Mission Viejo Capistrano Valley News
Mission Viejo, California, US
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
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