Click on the link below to access the Sandy Beach Park informational site. There you'll see safety information, ocean conditions, park accomodations & safety beach signs that are posted by Lifeguards. It also has a link of a map to find Sandy Beach 8800 Kalaniana'ole Highway
Sandy Beach Lifeguards extricated an injured mainland visitor from the shore pound
Cameron Stone & I helped package & load this victim for his ambulance ride to the Trauma Center at Queens Hospital after we ID ourselves to the LGs as off-duty Firefighters. It's sad, but we see this kind of accidents regularly here at Sandys. It's mostly because of not heeding the warnings from the Lifeguards - By Al
Click on the link below for the Honolulu Starbulletin article on Oahu's most perilous beaches. The top-3 most perilous beaches are favorite bodysurfing spots. Makapu'u & Sandy (two popular bodysurfing breaks) are the most dangerous. Waimea (#3) a winter season bodysurfing beach with heavy shorepounders:
Garrett MacNamara on this rare NE giant swell at Sandys
Garrett: "Sandy Beach is a body Surfing Beach not a surf beach, not to mention defiantly not a tow spot. I was waving my partner Ikaika to go away and not pick me up in the impact zone because I wanted to take as many on the head as I could."
