More people could die at a beach where a teenager drowned unless a lifeguard is stationed there at high-risk times, a coroner has warned.
David Ejimofor, 15, died at Aberavon beach, Neath Port Talbot, on 19 June 2023, after jumping into the sea with friends while celebrating the end of their exams.
Assistant coroner Edward Ramsay also said he had seen no evidence that other measures put in place since David's death, such as clearer signs, were "working effectively to reduce the risk".
At the inquest into David's death, Mr Ramsay said a lifeguard on duty could have stopped him from dying.
In a prevention of future deaths report, Mr Ramsay said a lifeguard had previously been stationed at the beach in spring and summer and it "was known to be effective at reducing the risk".
He said he was not given a satisfactory explanation why that had been removed before David's death, "nor why that measure continues to be absent today".
