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Navarre Lifeguards finish busy season with zero drownings, look to 2024

November 13, 2023 | Hansen Hasenberg

“Overwhelming.”

That’s how Beach Safety Division Chief Austin Turnbull describes the 2023 lifeguard season on Navarre Beach. From March 11 to Oct. 29, this year’s season, nearly 1.6 million people (1,591,259) visited Navarre Beach, which only stretches for four miles of Santa Rosa Island. This year, there were 32 Navarre Beach Lifeguards on staff.