{"id":222,"date":"2023-08-02T14:41:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/?page_id=222"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:41:35","slug":"rip-hazards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/key-points\/rip-hazards\/","title":{"rendered":"Rip hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Rip currents<\/strong> and longshore currents are hazardous because of their ability to <strong>physically move water-users<\/strong> to a region of greater hazard.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The <strong>ability<\/strong> water-users to deal with the prevailing rip current hazard depends on:<ul><li><strong>Swimming<\/strong> ability (speed and fitness)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li><strong>Floatation<\/strong> (e.g. bodyboard)<\/li><\/ul><ul><li><strong>Experience<\/strong> (risk of harm increases with decreasing experience and understanding)<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Rip<strong> exposure<\/strong> is the likelihood that a bather interacting with the surf would become caught in a rip current.<ul><li>Exposure and risk of rip incident are high during <strong>small\/medium swell waves<\/strong>, when rip currents are still relatively strong water users are still able to interact with manageable surf conditions.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rip currents and longshore currents are hazardous because of their ability to physically move water-users to a region of greater hazard. The ability water-users to deal with the prevailing rip current hazard depends on: Swimming ability (speed and fitness) Floatation (e.g. bodyboard) Experience (risk of harm increases with decreasing experience and understanding) Rip exposure is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"parent":218,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/222\/revisions\/224"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}