That reminds me of what they would show us in primary school to recognise rip tides. In Australia in the 1990’s and 2000’s we would go to swimming lessons yearly, and to the beach for water safety lesson’s, and to swim, as a school class. We have some really beautiful local beaches that tourists are flocking to that locals beg people not to swim in as they are lethal. We used to have the very occasional Australian swimmer drown from rips, with the bulk being tourist who don’t know our conditions and our life saver flagged area, but now we are getting more Aussies swimming in unsafe areas and manners.
I came here to comment something similar. Also an Aussie and with more and more people chasing “secret spots” with no lifeguards patrolling i think it’s getting dangerous. I also remember learning in depth about what a rip looked like and how to free yourself if stuck. I work in education and I don’t think it’s taught anymore.
Yea, I got caught in a rip tide at Tumon Beach 1986. Fresh off the plane from the prairies. Did not then know to just swim to the side of the rip tide. Scary. Gun Beach is a good beach for new SCUBA divers.
If you go to an Oregon beach keep in mind RIP currents and sneaker waves are extremely popular on the Oregon coast and can be very dangerous. I’d say rip currents are worse because most people get scared get the water is sucking you out into the ocean and they use their energy trying to fight against it when your supposed to float it out til you stop, swim parallel to the beach for 15 yards then float/swim back to shore. And sneaker waves call for a bad picnic if your having one on a calm beach because the beach can be all dry and nice while your having a nice dinner by the water. Then a 5 foot wave very quickly sneaks up and swiftly shows you to the land, this may or may not have happened to me….
I got in one of these in Laguna Beach. I was tired of the waves and wanted a break... oops (lol). Luckily I was 24 and 185lbs and was a student athelete. I high tailed it back and actually overcame the current. If I was 40, I may have died. In my prime, I was still out of breath and light ended by the end. Was some serious cardio.
Thank god I've never found myself in one all the times I've went to the beach and been swimming alone chillin' in shallow-medium waters. I wonder if they're always that visible, Are they?
Compared to the clean break waves coming in...Are they always like that way less white and darker looking? And if someone WHO KNOWS see's my comment, also do they usually happen on more windy stormy and even later in the day or are they just as common on sunny perfect weather days?🤔 Lmk
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@@EarthUncutTV So why do people drown? If you just lay on your back, let it take you out and then just swim parallel to get out of it, you'll be fine. Is it because people panic and try swim against is, exhausted themselves and therefore drown?
It’s the direction at which the waves are moving. Under rip current is undertow which drags you down underwater and rip tide or rip current sucks you out to sea
@@Me_Caity I have probably stood in a rip current up to my knees and didn't know it was a rip current. Til this day, I still don't know or understand what a rip current is.
A rip current is a back flow of water that takes you away from the shore and out to sea. It is essentially a channel that flows outward from the shoreline to the open sea. In order to survive, DO NOT swim towards shore because you'll be swimming against the tide; instead, RELAX and let the current take you out to sea and once you feel the current dissipate you then swim parallel to the shoreline and then turn in towards the shore. The most deadly is not a rip current but the undertow; the undertow is when the water SUCKS you underwater; here again, you MUST relax and let the churning stop before you swim up for air. The more you struggle the more air used up so relax and let the water let you go and then float to the surface.
