Talk:Hanakapiai Beach

Requested move
I think this article would be better titled Hanakapiai Beach. --MattWright (talk) 00:01, 19 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Page moved, per request. Cheers. -GTBacchus(talk) 08:45, 24 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks! --MattWright (talk) 00:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Bad Link
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:359030 is non-functional. http://geonames.usgs.gov/ is also non-functional, at least on my server Snideology (talk) 01:56, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

I have swum there -- scary
I went out once there. Ignored the signs. I was 25 and an excellent body surfer. The waves looked great. Nice curl. Maybe a five or six foot drop.

Never caught anything. Need fins. It was a beast to get back in. The backwash was intense. Never seen so much with waves that size. Don't swim there. Swlenz (talk) 02:06, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Did you submit this message via telegram, or something, or are you unable to use clauses? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.207.221 (talk) 16:44, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Latest drowning
Removed this information from article, as it didn't seem encyclopedic: The last person that fell victim to Hanakapiai Beach was a young Polish visitor Klaudiusz Dragun, who died there while swimming on 13 October 2008 as a result of a strong rip ocean current. If you want to re-add it, here is a reference.
 * It was added for a second time, but I removed it as recentism. Unless Dragun was notable before his death, it should not be included without discussion.  I don't know how many people have drowned at this beach, but it could be a long list. Viriditas (talk) 14:14, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Official sources say 30 since 1970, but I find that to be too low. Viriditas (talk) 14:16, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

No, he wasn't notable. He was just my friend. Let's leave it for a week and then I'll delete this. I heard that more than 90 people died there. Mostly visitors. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Genezyp (talk • contribs) 21:36, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Recentism added. On my talk page, I've asked you to consider moving the information to Wikinews. Viriditas (talk) 13:13, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Number of drownings
The main paragraph currently ends with "a sign which obviously exhibits absolutely no poetic licence, and is accurate despite its count remaining static at 82 +/- 1 since 2006." which is obviously sarcastic, I'm modifying it, but is there any official count of drownings? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.202.8.1 (talk) 15:30, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Cause of drownings. What the article fails to properly address is that the major cause of drownings may actually be the stream that crosses the trail past Hanakapiai beach. When there is rain on the mountain the stream comes down with a sudden and powerfully fast flood. People trying to get back to the parking lot must cross this stream there is no other way. The alternative may be to wait a day or more for the stream to subside so they desperately try and cross the flooded stream and they get swept into the ocean. 65.255.192.26 (talk) 23:43, 1 November 2017 (UTC) Ray