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More on this Great Lakes-focused series via the NYSG news item, "On YouTube: Beach and Water Safety — Know Before You Go", https://seagrant.sunysb.edu/articles/....

Transcript:

Water safety is so important during the winter. When when we go in and out of ice that's forming on Lake Michigan, you really need to pay attention to the forecast because we'll go through periods of very cold weather and then gradual warming that will help thin and melt that ice, so you never know exactly how thick that ice shelf is.

When waves push ice and water up over the snow mounds, it creates shelf ice. This looks stable, but it has caverns underneath that a person could fall into and not be able to escape. During the winter when there's snow or ice, you can't tell where the water line begins. If you walk or drive a snowmobile on snow or ice on the beach, you don't know how thick the ice is and could fall through into the freezing water.

What can happen once we get some warmer temperatures to move in during the winter, some of that ice underneath that initial top layer will start to melt, and you can fall through that ice and it is so dangerous. A person that falls through icy water conditions only has about 3 minutes to get out for that survival time.

What we ask is that if you are out there enjoying the the beach in the winter that you stay off the ice. If you have to be on the ice, wear a life jacket.