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Beach Patrol: Overview

Ocean City beaches and swimmers' lives are protected by the highly trained and experienced Ocean City beach patrol

Ocean City, Maryland Beach Patrol Overview

Ocean City Beach Patrol Overview:

The Ocean City Beach Patrol is an organization of men and women dedicated to ocean rescue and beach safety along the shoreline of Ocean City, MD. Many are educators during the year including Melbourne LeRoy Arbin III, better known locally as Captain Butch Arbin, a summer guard for 40 years and head of all the “surf rescue technicians”…

Articles on Ocean City, Maryland’s beaches

Surfing beaches now conditional on franchise vendor operation

(May 3, 2013) Ocean City’s subcommittee for surf beach scheduling made a minor tweak to its plans this week in response to concern from beach concessionaires that additional closings…

City pilot program offers larger surfing beaches, more inlet time

(April 19, 2013) In an attempt to address the highly variable nature of both the demand for surfing and the supply of decent waves, the city will be piloting a system this summer that …

The Summer ESA contest schedule

Here is the schedule for the ESA this year. Everyone always asks me how i got into doing what I do. The honest answer is the ESA… I grew up competing in Eastern Surfing Association…

Bdwk. walk to benefit National Multiple Sclerosis Society

(April 12, 2013) The Walk MS Ocean City fundraiser is one of 11 events scheduled this month in Maryland, where more than 6,000 people are living with Multiple Sclerosis, a chronic, …

Surfers crowd the inlet surf area on a summer weekday. The city’s surf beach committee held its inaugural meeting this week, proposing a plan to relieve the pressure by allowing the Ocean City Beach Patrol to selectively widen the other surf beaches. (PHOTO COURTESY NICK DENNY)

City may add third weekend surf beach, more flexibility

(April 5, 2013) Ocean City government’s subcommittee for surf beach scheduling held its inaugural meeting this week, putting forward a tentative deal that will seek to solve the…