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Originally Posted by island911
Huf-Po... There's a tragedy right thar.
Hawaii is a hard place. And with the massive numbers of people in or near water, are we supposed to be shocked by the numbers? I mean, backyard swimming pools have MUCH higher incident of drowning than those backyards without. --Be outraged. 
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One could probably plot a graph of # of drownings vs. miles of coastline + # of inland lakes for each State and it would be proportional. Michigan this past weekend had 5 drownings. But we've got 3200-miles of Great Lakes coastline + 11,000 inland lakes. Not sure 5 is average for MI, but with this much water there are drownings in the news every weekend.
