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    Swept Away

    Mar 24, 2020 5 minutes
    By Tyler Smith JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, AND Eric Wagner BRICK, NEW JERSEY
    AS TOLD TO
    Aline Alexander Newman

    Thursday, April 18, 2019. It was Senior Skip Day at Christ’s Church Academy in Jacksonville, Florida. A big deal for 17-year-old friends Heather Brown and Tyler Smith. They had been looking forward to this high school milestone all year. Along with six other seniors, they decided to spend the day at popular Vilano Beach, near St. Augustine. Spurred on by brilliant sunshine and temperatures in the eighties, the teens had planned a full day of swimming, sunbathing and beach volleyball. There was a High Hazard flag—a red flag warning beachgoers of “high surf and/or strong currents”—hoisted on the beach’s parking lot flagpole as the teens arrived, but they rushed past it.

    We drove to the beach in my I thought. We have the beach almost to ourselves. I saw no more than five people out there.

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