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Rip Currents

  • About
  • What is a rip current?
  • How does a rip current work?
  • Rip hazards
  • Types of rip current
    • Channel rip currents
    • Boundary rip currents
  • Key Points
    • Rip basics
    • Rip hazards
    • Beach type and sandbars
    • Tides
    • Waves
    • Boundary rips
  • Mass rescues and the myth of the ‘collapsing sandbar’

    Every year, at many of the busiest surf beaches up and down the exposed southwest of England and Wales, there are days when all the elements come together causing mass rip current rescues.  These incidents are often a result of a volatile mix of strong rip currents, attractive bathing conditions (warm and sunny) and lots […]

    August 4, 2023
  • Rip Snap #3

    Powerful mega rip in Ireland, Aileens, 2011

    August 4, 2023
  • Rip Snap #2

    Sundays River beach, Eastern Cape, South Africa (2019). Big open-coast channel rip.

    August 4, 2023
  • Geography Review: Rip Currents

    Rip currents – Researching a natural hazard; Gerd Masselink, Martin Austin, Tim Scott and Paul Russel; 2014

    August 4, 2023
  • GPS drifters – Whale Beach, Australia

    Video: GPS drifter tracks from a rip current experiment at Whale Beach in Sydney, Australia. Clearly shows how rip current behaviour pulses over time. Amazing data from Dr Jak McCarroll.

    August 4, 2023
  • Rip Snap #1

    Plymouth teamed up with the RNLI for our early research into rip current hazards. This was the DRIBS project team after some surf zone GPS drifter tracking of rip currents with at Perranporth Beach, Cornwall, 2011

    August 2, 2023
  • Bang Goes the Theory: How to measure rip currents

    Video: Bang Goes the Theory

    August 2, 2023
  • Video: rip current basics

    Video: Understanding Rip Currents – Dr Tim Scott

    June 1, 2023

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