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Joe Kottke and Madison Lambert. June 22, 2024 at 6:06 PM. Tyler Orsburn. Three men drowned while swimming at a Florida beach on Friday after getting caught in a rip current, adding to a deadly ...
A firefighter from Georgia and two fathers who drowned while trying to save their children are among at least 10 recent victims of dangerous rip currents along Gulf of Mexico beaches stretching ...
A rip current (or just rip) is a specific type of water current that can occur near beaches where waves break. A rip is a strong, localized, and narrow current of water that moves directly away from the shore by cutting through the lines of breaking waves, like a river flowing out to sea.
September 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM. DESTIN, Fla. – A 40-year-old man and his son were visiting Destin, Florida, when they were pulled from shore by a rip current on Friday. The two were swimming at ...
October 10 – Rip currents from Hurricane Delta killed two swimmers along the gulf coast. [ 192 ] October 28 – As Hurricane Zeta struck Louisiana, it also produced wind gusts of 52 mph (84 km/h) in Pensacola, causing power outages to 51,200 people.
A rip tide, or riptide, is a strong offshore current that is caused by the tide pulling water through an inlet along a barrier beach, at a lagoon or inland marina where tide water flows steadily out to sea during ebb tide. It is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas. The riptides become the strongest where ...
Rip currents are one of the most dangerous beach hazards, killing roughly 100 Americans per year. Here's how to identify them and stay safe over the July 4 holiday.
An "undertow" is a steady, offshore-directed compensation flow, which occurs below waves near the shore. Physically, nearshore, the wave-induced mass flux between wave crest and trough is onshore directed. This mass transport is localized in the upper part of the water column, i.e. above the wave troughs. To compensate for the amount of water ...