As summer progresses and the Carolina beaches attract more visitors, it’s important to be aware of beach safety, and especially of rip currents. Rip currents are powerful flows of water that flow away from the shore. Carolina Outdoors host Bill Bartee shares rip current safety advice and advises swimmers to be aware when visiting the beach this summer.
Segment Highlights:
- Rip currents are powerful flows of water that flow away from the shore, and are more common during low tide.
- A sign of a rip current is calmer water between areas of breaking waters, which can be difficult to spot from the shore.
- Earlier this summer, crews rescued 10 swimmers caught in a rip current at Wrightsville Beach.
- Rather than pulling you under water, rip currents pull swimmers farther out.
- Rip currents become fatal when swimmers try to fight against the current to get back to the shore, which quickly becomes tiring.
- If caught in a rip current, swim parallel to the shoreline until it releases you.
- Learn more about rip currents and safety in this article shared by our sponsor, Jesse Brown’s.
Things You’ll Learn by Listening:
Learn more about rip currents and how to remain safe if caught in one. Swimmers should swim parallel to the shoreline until the current releases you, contrary to the natural reaction of fighting the current.
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Want to hear more of the Carolina Outdoors? Last week, host Bill Bartee was joined by Elijah Saint Blancard, lead fly fishing guide and instructor at Jesse Brown’s, to find out what the summer heat means for our fish, specifically trout, smallmouth bass, and largemouth bass.
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