{"id":67,"date":"2023-08-01T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T12:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2023-08-04T11:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T11:24:53","slug":"home-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/home-page\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#eaf4fb\">Rip currents are found on surf beaches all over the world. Records collected throughout the USA, Australia and the UK show that rip currents represent a major cause of rescue and drowning to beach water users, especially inexperienced bathers. Due to this, many popular surf beaches have a lifeguard presence and those leading surf-related watersports activities need to have an understanding of surf lifesaving basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This website is designed to provide an up-to-date information resource for surf lifesavers, as well as interested water-users, on the basics of rip currents and rip hazards in the UK. With improved knowledge, experience and physical ability, rip currents need not present such a significant hazard to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-foreground-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/what-is-a-rip-current\/\" style=\"background-color:#eaf4fb\">What is a rip current?<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-foreground-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/how-does-a-rip-current-work\/\" style=\"background-color:#eaf4fb\">How does a rip current work?<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-foreground-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/rip-hazards\/\" style=\"background-color:#eaf4fb\">Rip hazards<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-foreground-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/different-types-of-rip-current\/\" style=\"background-color:#eaf4fb\">Types of rip current<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-foreground-color has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/key-points\/\" style=\"background-color:#eaf4fb\">Key points<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rip currents are found on surf beaches all over the world. Records collected throughout the USA, Australia and the UK show that rip currents represent a major cause of rescue and drowning to beach water users, especially inexperienced bathers. Due to this, many popular surf beaches have a lifeguard presence and those leading surf-related watersports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-67","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/ripcurrents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}