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  • A rip current is a narrow, fast-moving channel of water that starts near the beach and extends

  • offshore through the line of breaking waves.

  • If you do get caught in a rip current, the best thing you can do is stay calm. It's not

  • going to pull you underwater, it's just going to pull you away from shore.

  • Call and wave for help. You want to float, and you don't want to swim back to shore against

  • the rip current because it will just tire you out. You want to swim out of the rip,

  • parallel to shore, along the beach and then follow breaking waves back to shore at an angle.

  • When you first get to the beach, the best thing you can do is swim near a lifeguard.

  • And then if you have questions about if the conditions are hazardous or not, ask a lifeguard.

  • And then many beaches have things like a flag system, or other forms of communication to

  • be able to tell you if the conditions are hazardous.

  • But if you go to a beach without a lifeguard, when you get there, you want to make sure

  • you know how to spot a rip current, and if you get caught in one, know how to get out.

  • And then when you go in the water, always bring flotation.

  • Always let a lifeguard make a rip current rescue, because often, the people that try

  • to make rescues themselves end up being the ones who drown. Instead, the best way to help

  • is to throw them something that floats and immediately get a lifeguard for help.

  • Spotting a rip current can be difficult, and really needs some practice. But when you go

  • to the beach, start off by staying back from the water. Rip currents are easier to see

  • at an elevated position, like a dune line or beach access, and then look for places

  • where waves aren't breaking, so flat spots in the line of breaking waves. And then also

  • where there's maybe foam or sediment in the water being transported away from the beach

  • offshore.

  • Before you go to the beach, always check your local beach conditions. Look at the wave forecast.

  • If you have waves two to three feet high or greater, you could have strong rip currents.

  • And then look to see if there's a hazardous rip current statement for your local beach.

  • And then always check the tide as well.

  • So rip currents often occur at low tide, and so if you're going to the beach during a period

  • of low tide, just be mindful that strong rip currents could occur.

  • People often misunderstand and think that rip currents only occur during bad-weather

  • days at the beach but actually, you can have strong rip currents with sunny days and waves

  • of only about two to three feet high. And the reason for that is that rip currents aren't

  • really caused by the weather. They're caused by the waves and other factors like the tide

  • and the shape of the bottom.

  • Rip currents can occur anywhere you have breaking waves, like large sandy beaches on the open

  • ocean. But they can also occur where you have hard structures, like jetties, or piers, or

  • even rocks jutting out into the ocean.

  • In terms of the tide, usually rip currents are going to occur more at low tide when you

  • have waves breaking over the sandbar near shore. And that's the third part, the sandbars.

  • Usually you're going to have strong rip currents where you have significant sandbar near the

  • shore with a channel in it.

A rip current is a narrow, fast-moving channel of water that starts near the beach and extends

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激流勇進生存指南 (Rip Current Survival Guide)

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    fiona51 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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