> From antiquity up through the 18th century, the beach stirred fear and anxiety in the popular imagination. The coastal landscape was synonymous with dangerous

> From antiquity up through the 18th century, the beach stirred fear and anxiety in the popular imagination. The coastal landscape was synonymous with dangerous wilderness; it was where shipwrecks and natural disasters occurred. It's still actually a very dangerous place [1]. Keep in mind that very few people knew how to swim back then. [1] https://glsrp.org/statistics/ https://glsrp.org/statistics/