{"id":3032,"date":"2015-03-16T14:37:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T14:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/?p=3032"},"modified":"2016-11-23T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T11:10:18","slug":"rip-current-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/rip-current-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Rip Current Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3033\" style=\"width: 407px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rip-current-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3033\" class=\"wp-image-3033 \" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/rip-current-sign.jpg\" alt=\"Rip current awareness\" width=\"397\" height=\"552\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rip Current Safety Chart (Click to Enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Stay safe at the beach this summer and know the signs of a rip current.<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Rip Current:?<\/strong><em>&#8220;A small-scale surf-zone current moving away from the beach.? Rip currents form as waves disperse along the beach causing water to become trapped between the beach and a sandbar or other underwater feature.? The converges into a narrow, river-like channel moving away from the shore at high speed.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although rip currents are not always obviously visible,? there are indicators to help you spot rip currents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A channel of churning or choppy water<\/li>\n<li>A line of sea foam, seaweed, or debris moving steadily out to sea<\/li>\n<li>Different colored water beyond the surf zone<\/li>\n<li>A break in the incoming wave pattern as waves roll onshore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>General characteristics of a rip current are shown in the photographs below:<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3034\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/grand_ave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3034\" class=\"wp-image-3034 \" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/grand_ave.jpg\" alt=\"Rip current Example 1\" width=\"403\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rip Current Example 1 (Click To Enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3041\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ripcurrent_3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3041\" class=\"wp-image-3041 \" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ripcurrent_3.jpg\" alt=\"Rip current Example 3\" width=\"413\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rip Current Example 2 (Click To Enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3042\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ripcurrent_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3042\" class=\"wp-image-3042 \" src=\"http:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ripcurrent_2.jpg\" alt=\"Rip current Example 2\" width=\"420\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rip Current Example 3 (Click To Enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>?What to do if caught in a rip current:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Stay calm<\/li>\n<li>Swim along the shoreline, then on an angle back to shore<\/li>\n<li>If unable to swim along the shore and out of rip current stay floating in rip current.? Eventually the pull will dissipate.? Turn around face shore, wave and yell for help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3>Watch this Rip Current Awareness video:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQPBZP0fdQQ\" width=\"489\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay safe at the beach this summer and know the signs of a rip current. Rip Current:?&#8220;A small-scale surf-zone current moving away from the beach.? Rip currents form as waves disperse along the beach causing water to become trapped between the beach and &hellip;<span class=\"more\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/weather-articles\/rip-current-safety\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[614,615,616,613,612,611,610],"class_list":["post-3032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-articles","tag-beach","tag-beach-safety","tag-coastal-hazard","tag-coastal-safety","tag-ocean","tag-rip-current","tag-safety-awareness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3032"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3032\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ialert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}