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