Atlantic swells + social media = a deadly cocktail in Lanzarote

Atlantic swells + social media = a deadly cocktail in Lanzarote

Alan Patrick, the American student who drowned on Sunday, was the third person to lose their life at Los Charcones in recent months. The spectacularly beautiful natural rockpools, located on a shelf of volcanic rock near the abandoned Atlante de Sol hotel near Playa Blanca, have always been dangerous during heavy seas, but their popularity on social media in recent years, combined with this winter’s heavy Atlantic swells, has caused a concerning…