This theme encompasses papers that:

• • Advance research, policy, and programs in coastal safety, including environmental hazards and person-based risk factors.

• • Advance research, policy and programs in tourism management

• • Evaluate technical and technological advancements in safety rescue standards, training, operations, and equipment

• • Address the challenge of preventing drowning, managing rescue outside of lifeguarded settings on beaches and other open waterways

• • Identify, and present innovative solutions to challenges experienced by rescuers in low resource settings

• • Practices that enhance and enable rescue and response safety capability, including bystander rescue

• • Outline best practice in management of rescue operations

• • Including special interest sessions on shark mitigation strategies

• • Address short-medium term impacts of COVID pandemic on coastal safety

The WCDP committee have released the Coastal Safety accepted papers, take a look below. More papers to follow. 

Disclaimer: papers were correct at the time ob publishing. Please note, circumstances may change beyond the control of the organisers, which may necessitate substitutions or alternations to the conference program.

 

Presenting	Title of submission	Format
Rob Brander	Beach users and risk factors on unpatrolled beaches in New South Wales, Australia	Oral
Christopher Stokes	Analysis of the United Kingdom national-scale rip current forecast after 10 years of operation	Oral
Juliana Albertoni	Reducing drowning risk from rip currents: Comparing forecasted rip hazard to lifeguard observations of perceived rip hazard in New Zealand	Oral
Jamie Findlay	Evaluating and extending safety messaging: Moving beyond the Flags	Oral
Nick Mulcahy	Preventing ‘everyday emergencies’: data-driven decision-making to reduce the risk of drowning and injury on the New South Wales coastline	Oral
Sean Kelly	Outside the flags – understanding mortality, behaviours and perceptions of Australian beachgoers at unpatrolled locations	Oral
Kiera Staley	Surfers as water safety agents in Victoria, Australia	Oral
Rob Brander	Talk to the kids first – engaging with students to design a high school beach safety education presentation	Oral
Pamela Simon	Silver Salties: addressing concerning risk perception and behaviour in the over 55’s	Oral
David Carayon	Using machine learning to predict drownings in surf beaches of southwest France	Oral
Joel Oliveira	Surfers as Aquatics Rescuers in Portugal and Spain: Characteristics of Rescues and Resuscitation Knowledge	Oral
Bruce Hopkins	‘Float to Survive’ – evaluation of a new Australian beach safety campaign	Oral
Dehez Jeoffrey	Comparing beachgoer’s and lifeguards’ perceptions of coastal drowning risks in South-West France	Oral
Kane Holtom	Mitigating shark hazards to humans within an inshore coastal environment involving aquatic recreation and leisure activity: An essential layered approach.	Oral
Toshinori Ishikawa	Operation and Verification of Rip Current Detection System using AI	Oral
Jamie Falcon	Measuring beach replenishment’s effects on aquatic spinal injuries: an analysis of six rounds of replenishment at a high volume coastal resort	Oral
Andy Kent	Bringing all Lifeguard Patrols Online. Surf Life Saving New Zealand’s journey to get complete national operational oversight, situational awareness & critical communications to all patrol locations in NZ.	Oral
FABIO MARTINS	DROWNING PREVENTION ON NEW YEAR’S EVE AT COPACABANA BEACH PRESERVING MILLIONS OF LIVES	Oral
Christopher Stokes	Forecasting hazardous surfzone currents at an embayed estuarine beach	Oral
Steven Pearce	Responding outside of the Red and Yellow Flags. A new Emergency Service has emerged.	Oral
Bruno Castelle	Environmental controls on summer surf zone hazards, beach crowds, and resulting life risk at a high-energy sandy beach in southwest France	Oral
Anthony Blunden	Enhancing Coastal Safety with Technology: Lessons Learned from a Beach Monitoring Project	Oral
Ogilvie Thom	Making beach safety more relevant – a call to add human and dynamic beach factors to the beach hazard rating.	Oral
Louise Lambeth	Taking it to the beach – a pilot blackspot beach education initiative	Oral
Roger Sweeney	New high-tech ringbuoy sensors that curb theft and vandalism of rescue equipment in Ireland.	Poster
JEFERSON FRANCA	THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MOST RESILIENT MUNICIPALITY IN DROWNING IN TORRES-RS	Poster
Paulo Costa	Proposals for the eradication of drowning due to vessel accidents using statistical data over the past eleven years (2007 to 2018)	Poster
Julia Kiss	Gone Fishing: A comprehensive, multi-faceted and collaborative approach to empowering our rock fishing community to keep themselves safe.	Oral
Christo Rautenbach	Identifying rip currents using artificial intelligence	Oral
Haruki Toguchi	Automated Help-signal Detection using AI	Oral
Malia Borg	The Development of Stingray Sting Treatment and Injury Guideline (STING) in Response to Their Increased Prevalence on Coastal South Carolina Beaches	Poster
Jamie Falcon	ASSESSING LIFEGUARD SCARCITY AT COASTAL RESORTS IN THE UNITED STATES	Poster
Sean Kelly	Mortality, behaviours, and perceptions of young men: A high-risk coastal safety demographic	Poster
Jaz Lawes	A 10-year analysis of drowning deaths and other fatalities along the Australian coastline	Oral
Michael Thompson	An Infographic for Mitigating the Impact of Glare on Swimmer Surveillance and Long Term Eye Health of Lifeguards	Oral
Travis Klerk	The Surf Risk Rating App: A real-time risk mitigation tool to evaluate surf characteristics and weather conditions	Oral
Ryo Shimada	Proposal of Image Processing for Easy Recognition of Rip Current	Oral
Masaki Shibata	What is shore dump?: Exploring Australian university students’ knowledge of beach safety and their perceptions of Australian beach safety signage	Oral
Sam Rahman	The development of an innovative multi-purpose vehicle to support lifeguard services and education in coastal areas with low infrastructure.	Poster
Brent Manieri	Bystanders as everyday surf lifesavers: Understanding and reducing fatal bystander rescues along our coast	Poster
Jaz Lawes	Rip currents: An update and the novel next steps regarding the number one coastal drowning hazard	Oral
FABIO MARTINS	Protocol for assisting victims of drowning on the beach with submersion of up to 60 minutes	Poster
Paulo Costa	Report on Fire Department of Rio de Janeiro (Lifeguards) activities on the search for victims on a Sepetiba Bay shipwreck – experience report	Poster
Masaki Shibata	Identifying risks for overseas-born beachgoers and suggesting future preventative strategies: a qualitative study based on interviews with 20 lifesavers from Australian tourist beaches	Poster
Chris Jacobson	Soaking up summer: Understanding the impacts of summer coastal drowning deaths	Oral