Dangerous summer in the Great Lakes
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Michiana Crime Stoppers shredding event
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’IvyCares’ program setting students up for success in and...
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Windy and wet this weekend, but unseasonable warmth as well
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Local players react to $3 million investment in Byer Softball...
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Layoffs at Whirlpool could affect workers in Benton Harbor
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Annual District Sisterhood Conference at Ivy Tech empowers students
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Back home in downtown South Bend, YMCA to open new location
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This week’s ABC57 Cub Reporter is Nicholas Zentz
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Amazon Web Services invests $11 billion to build data center...
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Riley High School student center stage at the NFL Draft
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Rain, wind, and milder temperatures forecast this weekend
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Joe Alt expected to be drafted in the first round of NFL Draft
It was a long hot and dangerous summer for the Great Lakes region. So far in 2018, there have been more fatalities than there have been in the past eight years.
One hundred people have already lost their lives in the Great Lakes this year so far, and thirty-three of those were in Lake Michigan. Fifteen people drowned in August and September alone along the beaches of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. This is likely because the warm water drew more people out to the lake. The main causes of drownings were rip tides, swimming or boating with waves over three feet, and being washed off of piers and sea walls by large waves.
The number of drownings slows down a lot after September, of course because people are not at the water as much, but they do still happen. They mainly occur along piers and sea walls when the waves are big. Be aware that the threat is there, and be careful this fall, because that is when we usually see very large waves.