Beach Buddy is more than a beach app.

It’s a public safety warning system built for real beach days—when you’re deciding whether to paddle out, take the kids in, go for a swim, or stay on the sand. Beach Buddy pulls together real-time, location-based information so you can see what’s happening near you and react fast when conditions change. Shark activity. Incidents. Ocean conditions. The kind of situational awareness you wish you always had before stepping into the water.

But Beach Buddy also does something most “safety” apps don’t.

When a shark incident is reported, Beach Buddy captures a marine context snapshot tied to the actual incident time. That snapshot preserves the surrounding conditions as they truly were: tides, surf, weather, moon phase, and other environmental signals that can matter when trying to understand patterns.

That detail changes everything.

Because shark incidents aren’t just isolated moments—they’re moments inside a bigger system. The ocean has rhythms. Temperature shifts. Seasonal movement. Prey migration. Visibility. Swell. Lunar cycles. When you record the context around incidents accurately, you start building a dataset that can support real analysis and better public understanding over time.

So Beach Buddy isn’t just warning people. It’s helping build clarity and further research and education on sharks.

For beachgoers, it means better decisions in the moment:

~ Know what’s happening nearby.

~ Understand risk factors before you enter the water.

~ Stay aware when conditions shift quickly.

For research and education, it means better data over the long term:

~ A growing incident history paired with the environmental context that existed at the time.

~ A way to compare “what happened” with “what the ocean was doing.”

~ More signals for educators, students, and researchers studying behavior and risk.

And Beach Buddy is built around a core belief: protecting human life does not require demonizing sharks. We can reduce risk through awareness, smarter choices, and better information—while respecting the role sharks play in healthy oceans.

If you’re a beachgoer, surfer, diver, parent, educator, scientist, or ocean advocate, Beach Buddy is for you.

Download it. Use it before you get in. Share it with one person you care about.

Because the more people who use it, the safer we all become—and the better the data gets for everyone.

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