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A Variety of Philippine Beaches – Experience A Great Beach Vacation – Video

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Beaches Resorts Turks and Caicos – Italian Village Family Suites – Video

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Italian Village Family Suites Review at Beaches Resorts Turks and Caicos. Full family travel review with photos at http://www.myorganizedchaos.net/2014/05/beaches-turks-caicos-italian-village-famil...

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Resorts at risk of failing tough new water quality targets

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Warning that beaches including Weston-super-Mare and Blackpool may not hit new EU regulations

Dozens of beaches are at risk of failing tough new standards for water quality, the Environment Agency said as it launched its summer monitoring programme.

They include beaches at resorts such as Weston-super-Mare and Blackpool, which are hugely popular with people from the West Midlands.

From next year, more stringent European Union regulations will be brought in for bathing spots around England, and the agency is warning that around 40 beaches are on track to fail if action is not taken to tackle pollution ending up in the sea.

They also include Scarborough South Bay, Lyme Regis Church Cliff beach, Southend Jubilee beach, Ilfracombe Wildersmouth and Morecambe and Walney.

If beaches fail on water quality standards under the EU rules, local authorities will have to display a sign advising against swimming.

More than 400 beaches will be tested weekly between now and September, with a total of 8,400 samples taken, and the Environment Agency said nine out of 10 swimming spots were already meeting the new standards.

But there were still areas where pollution was a problem, caused by agricultural run-off, sewage overflows, animal and bird faeces on beaches and households and businesses with badly-connected drains, the agency said.

In some areas as many as one in five houses have their drains misconnected, which means sewage is being accidentally flushed into rivers and ending up on beaches.

Water companies, local authorities and the Environment Agency were working to sort out the problem.

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Florida Beaches Face Dangerous Rip Currents

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By Gabe Gutierrez

Memorial Day Weekend was the unofficial start of summer. The beaches were jam-packed, as last winters polar vortex has become a distant memory. But Floridas Volusia County has been hit with a wave of trouble.

Monday, there were more than 120 water rescues, mostly due to dangerous rip currents. On Sunday, lifeguards rescued about 100 swimmers from rough waters. Red flags dotted the sands in Daytona Beach, Florida, warning swimmers of possible danger.

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I had a panic attack. My heart almost stopped beating, and thats why I have to leave the beach right now, said Teresa Lattimore, a mother whose 10-year-old son was among those caught in the potentially deadly currents.

Rip currents are powerful channels of fast-moving water. Theyre caused by shifting sands that can move at speeds of up to 8 feet per second. Lifeguards say your best bet against them is to swim parallel to the shore.

In total, Florida lifeguards rescued 220 people this holiday weekend, more than they usually rescue in two full weeks.

First published May 26 2014, 2:52 PM

Gabe Gutierrez is an NBC News correspondent based in Atlanta, Ga. He joined the network in March 2012, and reports for all platforms of NBC News, including "TODAY," "Nightly News with Brian Williams," MSNBC, NBCLatino.com, and NBCNews.com, as well as Telemundo.

Gutierrez came to NBC News from KHOU 11 News in Houston, Texas, where he worked as the station's City Hall reporter. Prior to working in Houston, Gabe was a weekend morning anchor and reporter at WJRT-TV, the ABC station in Flint, Mich. While at WJRT, he regularly produced and hosted the station's public affairs program in addition to covering the state legislature and the auto industry. His first on-air job was at WBOY-TV, the NBC affiliate in Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he anchored weekend newscasts and reported during the week. While in college, Gutierrez interned at Telemundo in South Florida and at ABC News' satellite feed in Chicago.

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Beaches, beer, Great Lakes mysteries abound along Michigan Triangle

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ST. JOSEPH Getting lost at Lake Michigan is nothing new.

This is a truth discovered by the crews and passengers of vessels that sailed the Great Lakes and disappeared, either without a trace or found years later as wrecks on the lake floor.

The 58 people aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 2501, missing since it started westward out over Lake Michigan in 1950 near South Haven, are among them.

Those who subscribe to fantastical explanations of matters where details are scarce call this area of numerous wrecks the Michigan Triangle. An imaginary border links Benton Harbor/St. Joseph, Ludington and Mantiwoc, Wis., creating an alleged area of mysterious happenings similar to the famous Bermuda Triangle.

The Atlas Obscura, an online resource of strange happenings all around the world, features an entry on the Lake Michigan Triangle. It mentions the 1921 incident of the Rosa Belle, a ship carrying members of the Benton Harbor religious group House of David, being discovered overturned with all the people missing.

The Travel Channels Mysteries at the Museum show highlighted the Michigan Triangle, even bringing UFO activity into the mix.

At South Havens Michigan Maritime Museum, the explanations are a little more reasonable.

Director of Education and Administration Eden Morris said there are about 8 to 10 shipwrecks near South Haven alone, and that people regularly search for evidence of more.

Still, people shouldnt worry about being swallowed into a wormhole to another dimension, abducted by aliens or anything else that defies description.

Many of the wrecks, Morris said, were caused by more mundane matters.

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Cairns and around – Streets, Beaches, Snorkeling and Diving at the Great Barrier Reef – Video

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Cairns and around - Streets, Beaches, Snorkeling and Diving at the Great Barrier Reef
Ein paar Straen um Cairns und ein wenig vom Schnorcheln und Tauchen am Great Barrier Reef, leider mit nicht so guter Sicht. Musik: Filous - Able.

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