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How do tourists in your area meet their death?

Asked by raum (13206points) August 9th, 2019 from iPhone

In California, a lot of tourists get swept out by riptides and sneaker waves.

In Hawaii, when lava meets the ocean water it creates laze. A haze of hydrochloride acid with fine particles of glass. Tourists have died after being splashed while posing for a photo near the ocean.

In Alaska, we didn’t see many sandy beaches like in California or Hawaii. Instead there were endless stretches of mudflats. They look innocent enough. Except it acts almost like quicksand. But that’s not what kills you. The tide there doesn’t come in slowly. It comes in quickly and in some places the difference between low tide and high tide can be 40 feet high. They drown.

Generally, nature is beautiful but scary in Alaska. Their rate of accidental death is twice the national average.

So…in the area that you live in, what usually kills the clueless tourists? Are the locals aware of these dangers?

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