Teens, young adults at highest risk for open water drowning
State and municipal authorities increase the danger by eliminating lifeguards at public beachesFORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, July 2, 2011—Funeral arrangements being made for a 16 year old Jerrad Ramon who drowned in Clear Lake, Iowa when he and a friend tried to swim out to a buoy off of City Beach. Joel Johnson, 21, of Lauderhill, Fla. drowned last week when he and friends from Florida Gulf Coast University took a late-night swim in a campus lake when no lifeguards were on duty. Brion McCray, 15, of College Station, Texas drowned last Saturday in the Welch Park area of Lake Somerville