What we check before publishing a track — the Radazul case

Before adding a beach to TenerifePulse, the facts are checked before publication — even when a listing is requested urgently. Here is a concrete and dated example: Playa de Radazul (El Rosario), added on August 16, 2026.

What was reported

In mid-August 2026, the local press reported the disappearance of the buoys separating the swimming area from the access channel to the Puerto Deportivo de Radazul, and the lack of execution of a project to remark the Cabildo although launched in 2022. A risk of crossing between bathers and boats therefore exists on the channel side.

What was checked before publication

• Aucun arrêté officiel de fermeture — donc aucune interdiction de baignade affichée sur la fiche : en afficher une aurait signalé un arrêté qui n'existe pas.
• La plage reste physiquement ouverte — donc pas de mention d'accès restreint non plus, qui l'aurait sortie de la liste des plages où l'on peut se rendre.
• GPS coordinates confirmed by cross-checking from three independent sources before publication, rather than taken from just one.
• Aucune photo publiée : pas de version vérifiée disponible pour cette plage précise au moment de la création de la fiche, donc rien n'a été mis à la place d'un placeholder générique.

The real risk (unmarked swimming area near a channel) is written in the local council sheet, dated and sourced, rather than translated into an automatic alert.

Why not have dramatized

Swimming ban and restricted access are two separate reports on TenerifePulse, each with their own condition. The first suspends swimming on a beach which otherwise remains open: health order, pollution. The second says that the access itself is impassable in the long term: degraded road, protected area. Confusing them — or posing them “as a precaution” without an official basis — would produce the same problem in both directions: an unfounded alert is as misleading as a missing alert. The correct response to a real but unofficial risk is accurate and dated local advice, not a badge that claims a decision has not been made.

What it actually changes

Sur la fiche de Playa de Radazul, le conseil local actuel indique de rester dans la zone de baignade balisée et à proximité de l'enrochement et des escaliers d'accès, à l'écart du chenal. This is the verified information available today — it will be updated if the situation changes (remarking carried out, new order).

This page will be enriched as real cases come across in TenerifePulse's daily verification work — not a promised pace, just dated cases as they arise.