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MIAMI (AP) — Rough surf has been creating dangerous conditions for swimmers and complicating rescue efforts along Florida beaches.
Officials say at least four people went missing in boating and swimming incidents over the holiday weekend. They include a swimmer off Ormond Beach in Florida, and a woman who disappeared from a boat that was returning to suburban Miami.
Elsewhere, a search was called off for an 11-year-old boy who disappeared Saturday off Jacksonville. On Sunday, authorities used a personal watercraft to bring a woman to shore in the same area of Little Talbot Island, but a man remained missing in the water.
Beachgoers also pulled two men from the water Sunday on Daytona Beach Shores. Officials said one died, and the other was hospitalized.
On the Gulf Coast, the Coast Guard says two teenagers were swept off the end of a Mississippi barrier island after arriving on a passenger ferry. One was found clinging to a buoy, but the other remains missing.
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