Facts I live in sc and go to myrtle beach all the time and never knew it was happening cause we be so excited about having g fun and instead I need to know when it's a warning of bad waves.

You’re welcome!

I'm from Florida and I've been caught in them at least 10 times in my 58 years. Don't panic and float. Also never enter the water where the waves aren't breaking. That's the rip!

I just read that story right now. So sad

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.

​@@mfanwelikeit3760Could you please describe how to survive a rip current? I've read 2 ways and I'm not sure which is the best method. Thank you very much!!

Part of this is psychological. Tourists sometimes let their common sense and defenses down when they travel. They put themselves in "adventure mode" and think they can "conquer" all things. They watch KZfaq videos about people doing some rather risky things and think they too can do the same. Unfamiliar settings, food, cultures can confuse people, especially if they are in lets-hurry-up-and-have-fun mode. I live in Maine and see this all the time with summer tourists.

So glad it’s of help!

Enjoy your trip and stay safe

Take me with you, I promise I will save you 😊😄😂

There's nothing wrong with learning the specialties you mentioned, but information and survival techniques about the natural world should be included. I use myself as an example. I moved to Maine from Chicago 6 years ago, and I sensed immediately that this was a complete change of environment for me. I had to learn how to handle a boat, how to manage woodburning fireplaces and stoves, how to read the ever-changing weather and tides, how to prepare for Nor'easters, and even how to shovel snow safely. I lived all my life in big cities in different parts of the world and never had to think about any of these things. It's always good to educate yourself about the environment you will be in long before you travel. Knowledge is power. It can save your life.

That awesome, glad to hear it!

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.

😂 you in me both bring out the swimming pools facts

That’s why almost everyone in the pool

I saw a beautiful reef shark cruising through that deep fast moving stuff!

Jeez that sounds painful

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

Watch bondi rescue. Happens any time of day

It is I think

Saw a nice reef shark in those shallows that same evening

Hello - yes please feel free to use

@@EarthUncutTV Thank you so much, sir 🙏🏻

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_Caitythank you, I thought it might be but I can't see it, it's over too quickly. My point was that this video is not showing me this.

@@mbsjanetelizabethyeah I’m not seeing it either. Isn’t this rip tide happening on the beach/sand? It can’t rip you out if you’re only ankle deep?

Yup!

@@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?

​@@Mattnozz yep

@@Mattnozzthat and even if you just float parallel it’s still dragging you deeper out to sea.

No, they enjoy the ride of a lifetime and die from too much excitement. ​@@Mattnozz

You got it!

It is my understanding 100yards (NOT A FEW MILES) is the furthest a rip will take you out

@@jimconant3784 What I meant is that once you're out of rip tide vertically, you may have to swim far horizontally to the shore in order to swim back in safely.

@@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.

@@Me_Caity Well I wasn't, but on another comment thread I was told it was possible I was standing in a rip current and didn't know it.

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.

Because it can be deadly,Rest In Peace.Joking,it's a current/channel of fast moving water RIPPING through waves back to sea

Until that big shark comes along feeding on all the little fishies in the rip.

Guam