In 2018, Surf Life Saving Australia launched the Think Line campaign, which encourages beachgoers to spend a few minutes thinking about beach safety when they arrive at the beach.

A surfer escaped a shark attack in Australia unscathed but with his surfboard bitten in two. The incident took place on ...

The core safety message promoted to beachgoers is to always ‘swim between the flags’ on patrolled beaches. Richard Wainwright/AAP All drownings are preventable A recent study showed coastal ...

However, despite a campaign launched in 2016 by the Australian Water Safety Council, the number of deaths has risen year-on-year since 2015, with 291 fatalities recorded last year.

Shark attacks are rare, but Australia sees more than most countries, with an average of 22 shark bites per year between 2010 ...

Co-author Jaz Lawes, who is a researcher with UNSW's Beach Safety Research Group and with Surf Life Saving Australia, says with school holidays coming up and the water still warm enough to swim in ...

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In Western Australia, Eco Shark Barriers exist at beaches in Coogee, Sorrento and Esperance. In NSW there is one at Bermagui Beach on the south coast.

In Australia, where about 85 percent of the population lives within an hour’s drive of a coast, rips cause more fatalities than floods, cyclones, and shark attacks combined.