ANYBODY entering into the ocean needs to read about rip tides and how not to react the wrong way if caught in one. 1. Never attempt to fight against a rip tide. 2. Save all your energy by floating on your back when possible...expending NO energy. 3. Any energy expended should go toward slowly swimming parallel to shore until the force of the rip tide is no longer felt. 4. Sooner or later, you'll move beyond the rip tide's force. Panicking and fighting the rip tide can only serve to end your life. If you don't know how to float on your back comfortably and in a prolonged manner, learn to do that before venturing out past any breakers.
I got caught in something like this recently, tried to swim against it like an idiot, lost all my energy, eventually made it back alive somehow, i seriously thought i was done for at some point
I just got caught in one today in Costa Rica. It dragged me out about a 1/4 mile into the sea, I was lucky there were some surfer dudes that were able to help me get back to shore. Crazy
Literally thought I was gonna loose it. I got sharp cold shocks and I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t know to not fight the rip currant, lifeguard ran in for me. I just thought of my newborn son, and daughter. You just don’t know how something as fun as swimming against waves can pull you away from the shore.
@@Brockton153yea, at the moment one panics especially if you can’t get to the other person who’s saying they aren’t going to make it. Thank God, we made it out alive by two rescuers.
Rips are made more dangerous because they can unpredicatbly change their location from day to day as the seabed sands shift position up and down the beach.
About 24hours ago myself and my sister in law got caught in one. I panicked that I couldn’t help her or help myself. Thank god for the surfer and lifeguard that pulled us out. It was mainly loosing energy and panicking that made it a nightmare. I’m alive today.
I also got caught on a rip current and was saved by a lifeguard on a surf board. Hands down, the most terrifying experience I have ever had. Rip currents are scary because they are deceiving to the eye.
It’s a bit tough to spot at first, but look for the channel of water running back out to sea in between two breaking waves. Focus on the direction the water is moving, not on the waves themselves.
Good, look at the waves. Notice how some parts of the waves are moving far slower than the others even when they crest first? Sometimes the wave breaks almost immediately but even the crashing water moves slower than the water around it. There is your rip current, in the waves themselves you see how much resistance there is in the spots where the current is rushing backwards against the waves themselves.
I still remember my parents having no idea what this was when the rip got ahold of me at around age 6. Thank god I was obsessed with the ocean and swimming as I was able to get myself out of it thought logic and recognition of my ability/inability to actually move in the water while the rip had me. That natural intuition and security of my own movements saved me that day. My parent was barely able to save themselves and only did so by copying what I had don’t fighting to get to me, which resulted in them too swimming diagonally across the rip into normal waters. It came from no where we were sitting and playing in the beach and then the next thing you know, one wave was all it took.
if you got caught in a riptide... just swim with it... and swim around it. don't panic, observe the waters before every swim... those are things i learn since kid... i grew up by the water... many people lost their lives because of small things they ignore....!! be safe people!
I’ve been caught in a rip current a couple times. You just need to stay calm and you should be okay. I got caught on a sandbar whose entire back half collapsed catching me in an extremely strong undertow. If I hadn’t been wearing a quality life vest at the time, I would have been killed.
@@tripletgalaxyHe did ok in the rip current. He would not have survived the under tow had he not been wearing a life jacket. A rip current and an under tow are two different things.
@@RollerBear123 Being "Asian" has nothing to do with it in racial terms, other than they are by far the largest tourist group that comes to Australia each year, and the largest amount of tourist drowning deaths. I suppose I could have used Puerto Ricans as an example, but have never heard of any Puerto Ricans drowning in Australia. www.google.com/search?q=Asian+tourist+drownings+in+Australia&newwindow=1&sxsrf=ALeKk03Q1PlqEpMIv2-l8yiu9L9EK408HQ%3A1625462726734&ei=xpfiYLOpLO_HrgS_xYW4Cw&oq=Asian+tourist+drownings+in+Australia&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANKBAhBGAFQhlZYomJg4WRoAXAAeACAAe0CiAGSFpIBAzMtOJgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwizpLDDmMvxAhXvo4sKHb9iAbcQ4dUDCA0&uact=5
Almost got got by one today in Del Mar on Camp Pendleton’s beach, had to see what they look like from above. Scariest thing I’ve ever encountered in the water. Staying calm and keeping the person who was with me calm was the key. If you’re swimming with someone significantly smaller than you, be sure you can safely guide them to shore, or at least make sure they know not to fight it.
You should swim horizontally or at a diagonal conserving your energy, if you just float a strong enough rip current can pull you really far out to the point where you might not even know where shore is.
@@zidesce7961 This is exactly what happened to me when I was 7, we were out on the beach near the Pier and Purple Moose Saloon, just went with the current and took me all the way down where the Kite loft was and swam back walked back to where my family were, and they said, "where was you?" I told them the current took me out and remained calm, floated. learned this in Cub Scouts.
@Jenny D did you ask who's shad or did Biba? Shad Gaspard was a wrestler that drowned in the ocean saving his child who was trapped in rip current. JennyD I wonder what the D stands for
Im an American surfer and I swim off that same beach and LOVE those rip currents. I get silly happy when those currents pull me way out to where the bull sharks are feeding
The area he said where the rip current is at looks like the water just going back into the ocean idk.. Maybe I shouldn’t go to the beach because I’ll probably drown and die.
That is what a rip current is - water going back to the ocean. The waves splash up to the beach, and then in some areas, the water makes a bit of a loop to go back out. Those areas with rip currents seem to have more water going back, or more force, or something, which is why those areas are dangerous, and those backward streams can sometimes go pretty far out. However, most look to be narrow enough to get out if a person were to try to swim more parallel to the beach than to fight it. Watch a few videos that explain it. I can't, I finally have just learned what it is myself. Fairly easy to spot once you have a better idea what to look for. I am from the mountains, so not something I encountered very often. It's just water returning to the sea - against the flow of most of the other water heading towards the beach - and it heads away with force.
If there’s a lot of rip currents I rather not go to the beach because I have kids and I personally felt and seen what they can do to full grown man I can imagine children heck I’ll go to a pool
ANYBODY entering into the ocean needs to read about rip tides and how not to react the wrong way if caught in one. 1. Never attempt to fight against a rip tide. 2. Save all your energy by floating on your back when possible...expending NO energy. 3. Any energy expended should go toward slowly swimming parallel to shore until the force of the rip tide is no longer felt. 4. Sooner or later, you'll move beyond the rip tide's force. Panicking and fighting the rip tide can only serve to end your life. If you don't know how to float on your back comfortably and in a prolonged manner, learn to do that before venturing out past any breakers.
Those rips aren't too bad, actually. I'm a former lifeguard and surfer. I've rescued hundreds from rips. This isn't the best example of a bad rip.
Thank u cause I couldn’t really see it
It is for ppl who can’t swim or anyone who can’t spot one 🙄
fax these were weak and shallow. i think deeper and more aggressive rips woulda been better to show
I got caught in something like this recently, tried to swim against it like an idiot, lost all my energy, eventually made it back alive somehow, i seriously thought i was done for at some point
Swim on your back............will use a lot less energy.
I just got caught in one today in Costa Rica. It dragged me out about a 1/4 mile into the sea, I was lucky there were some surfer dudes that were able to help me get back to shore. Crazy
I did the same thing in Turkey i did the wrong thing swam against it!! Bád move ! . Wow that's was some battle ! Life or death. I made it back. Phew.
Literally thought I was gonna loose it. I got sharp cold shocks and I couldn’t breathe. I didn’t know to not fight the rip currant, lifeguard ran in for me. I just thought of my newborn son, and daughter.
You just don’t know how something as fun as swimming against waves can pull you away from the shore.
@@Brockton153yea, at the moment one panics especially if you can’t get to the other person who’s saying they aren’t going to make it. Thank God, we made it out alive by two rescuers.
Rips are made more dangerous because they can unpredicatbly change their location from day to day as the seabed sands shift position up and down the beach.
Stay calm and afloat. Swim parallel and swim back toward the shore is the way to go
@@flabunny1swim perpendicular to current towards still water, not parallel to current.
You swim parallel to the shore out of the rip current
About 24hours ago myself and my sister in law got caught in one. I panicked that I couldn’t help her or help myself. Thank god for the surfer and lifeguard that pulled us out. It was mainly loosing energy and panicking that made it a nightmare. I’m alive today.
I also got caught on a rip current and was saved by a lifeguard on a surf board. Hands down, the most terrifying experience I have ever had. Rip currents are scary because they are deceiving to the eye.
Thank God!!!
Let it take you then swim diagonally
@RossPerot-ok3tsLol. How would you have proof? "Hey I'm drowning! Let me whip out my GoPro and film this!"
@@OllieGrigg Genuine question. Where did u find that information? Is it really recommended to swim that way and will it really work?
im sorry I don't see one, I just see waves coming to the shore
It’s a bit tough to spot at first, but look for the channel of water running back out to sea in between two breaking waves. Focus on the direction the water is moving, not on the waves themselves.
I like your opinion,but I think sometimes the rip currents will covered by waves.
Good, look at the waves. Notice how some parts of the waves are moving far slower than the others even when they crest first? Sometimes the wave breaks almost immediately but even the crashing water moves slower than the water around it.
There is your rip current, in the waves themselves you see how much resistance there is in the spots where the current is rushing backwards against the waves themselves.
What you're looking for is WHITE FOAM leading out to sea behind the breaking waves.
A rip current is deadly but escapable.
I don’t see it.
Me either
@@whodatis2 it’s hard to spot but you’ll feel it before you spot it
Nor me.
0:07 about 60 yards from swimmers
I still remember my parents having no idea what this was when the rip got ahold of me at around age 6. Thank god I was obsessed with the ocean and swimming as I was able to get myself out of it thought logic and recognition of my ability/inability to actually move in the water while the rip had me. That natural intuition and security of my own movements saved me that day. My parent was barely able to save themselves and only did so by copying what I had don’t fighting to get to me, which resulted in them too swimming diagonally across the rip into normal waters. It came from no where we were sitting and playing in the beach and then the next thing you know, one wave was all it took.
if you got caught in a riptide... just swim with it... and swim around it. don't panic, observe the waters before every swim... those are things i learn since kid... i grew up by the water... many people lost their lives because of small things they ignore....!! be safe people!
Also, don't be in the water if you are a weak swimmer, or can't swim at all for that matter.
@@stagger9660 how are you ever going to learn to swim if you never get into the water though?
@@skycloud4802Practice in a swimming pool. Anywhere, as long as it is a controlled water environment.
@@skycloud4802Learn to swim well in a pool!
Being a city boy I'd never heard of a rip tide. Until if felt like some force had overcome me and was dragging me backwards into the sea.
I know you’re not a city boy because you referred to yourself as a “city boy”
@@ScatterbrainFilms-k8o You 'know' nothing Scatterbrain.
@@mukhumor ok “city boy”
@@ScatterbrainFilms-k8o What difference does it make to you where I live Scatterbrain?
@@mukhumor it doesn’t. You just seem corny.
I’ve been caught in a rip current a couple times. You just need to stay calm and you should be okay. I got caught on a sandbar whose entire back half collapsed catching me in an extremely strong undertow. If I hadn’t been wearing a quality life vest at the time, I would have been killed.
> "you should be okay"
> "I would have been killed"
@@tripletgalaxyHe did ok in the rip current. He would not have survived the under tow had he not been wearing a life jacket. A rip current and an under tow are two different things.
So many Asian tourists come to Australia beaches every year and drown in rip-tides, they won't listen, they won't swim between the flags..
what does them being asian have to do with anything?
Poor swimmers and poor drivers.
@@RollerBear123 Being "Asian" has nothing to do with it in racial terms, other than they are by far the largest tourist group that comes to Australia each year, and the largest amount of tourist drowning deaths.
I suppose I could have used Puerto Ricans as an example, but have never heard of any Puerto Ricans drowning in Australia.
www.google.com/search?q=Asian+tourist+drownings+in+Australia&newwindow=1&sxsrf=ALeKk03Q1PlqEpMIv2-l8yiu9L9EK408HQ%3A1625462726734&ei=xpfiYLOpLO_HrgS_xYW4Cw&oq=Asian+tourist+drownings+in+Australia&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EANKBAhBGAFQhlZYomJg4WRoAXAAeACAAe0CiAGSFpIBAzMtOJgBAKABAaoBB2d3cy13aXrAAQE&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwizpLDDmMvxAhXvo4sKHb9iAbcQ4dUDCA0&uact=5
@@hearmenow909 I live in Asia now, the "poor driving" works when everybody drives the same :-)
@@markmark5269 Alright so there's no need to mention that they're asian
Almost got got by one today in Del Mar on Camp Pendleton’s beach, had to see what they look like from above. Scariest thing I’ve ever encountered in the water. Staying calm and keeping the person who was with me calm was the key. If you’re swimming with someone significantly smaller than you, be sure you can safely guide them to shore, or at least make sure they know not to fight it.
Not very clear to me where the rips are.
Rip currents are really dangerous but the ones being filmed here are very small.
Rip currents aren't deadly if you know how to float. just float along on it until it peters out, then ride the waves back to shore.
Currents ARE deadly. You never underestimate the power of the ocean no matter how good of a swimmer you are
You should swim horizontally or at a diagonal conserving your energy, if you just float a strong enough rip current can pull you really far out to the point where you might not even know where shore is.
Are you dumb? Rip currents can pull you a mile out to sea. You should swim parallel to the beach until you're out of it.
What if you get dragged miles out to sea?
@@zidesce7961 This is exactly what happened to me when I was 7, we were out on the beach near the Pier and Purple Moose Saloon, just went with the current and took me all the way down where the Kite loft was and swam back walked back to where my family were, and they said, "where was you?" I told them the current took me out and remained calm, floated. learned this in Cub Scouts.
Who's Shad?
Shad Gaspard wrestler
@Jenny D did you ask who's shad or did Biba? Shad Gaspard was a wrestler that drowned in the ocean saving his child who was trapped in rip current. JennyD I wonder what the D stands for
@@winn305 Damit !!
This was 8 years ago, but imma avoid Ocean City just incase…
Not one person headed towards the beach. Is that an asylum facility?
Simply fantastic! Such a beautiful and relaxing video. Thank you for taking us on this beautiful and relaxing journey. Greetings from @nami-vlog 🌍💜💜💜👍
Rip Shad💜 I pray for his family
I don't know what that chopper guy saw, but I live at the beach for the last 62 years and I can say there was no rip there.
200 yards tf is that?is it like 200 times an area behind a house?
A yard is about a meter
Im an American surfer and I swim off that same beach and LOVE those rip currents. I get silly happy when those currents pull me way out to where the bull sharks are feeding
If you look closely you can see people near those riptides. Right now. Right in the middle.
They aren't called RIP just for fun, you know...
I can't see the discoloration.
This how Ryan Mallet died
The area he said where the rip current is at looks like the water just going back into the ocean idk.. Maybe I shouldn’t go to the beach because I’ll probably drown and die.
That is what a rip current is - water going back to the ocean. The waves splash up to the beach, and then in some areas, the water makes a bit of a loop to go back out. Those areas with rip currents seem to have more water going back, or more force, or something, which is why those areas are dangerous, and those backward streams can sometimes go pretty far out. However, most look to be narrow enough to get out if a person were to try to swim more parallel to the beach than to fight it. Watch a few videos that explain it. I can't, I finally have just learned what it is myself. Fairly easy to spot once you have a better idea what to look for. I am from the mountains, so not something I encountered very often. It's just water returning to the sea - against the flow of most of the other water heading towards the beach - and it heads away with force.
Here before it goes viral
HAHAHAHA "Viral"? 314 likes since 2014. Wrong vid.
We was just at this Beach in Pensacola Florida
i didn’t see a thing 🤯
If you want to train for the Olympics, that’s a good way to train. Make sure you have a way coming back to sure
Swimming at Night, No thanks
I wished I can see the rip 😞love swimming in ocean
swim between the flags lifeguards place
That’s a lifesaver!!!!
ALWAYS swim or float out with the current.
Shad 🥺
ok but ths guy needs to get the mic out his throat
Who's watching in 2024?
If there’s a lot of rip currents I rather not go to the beach because I have kids and I personally felt and seen what they can do to full grown man I can imagine children heck I’ll go to a pool
I use rips to get back out after surfing in.
Please be careful
That bit of info isn't really helpful to the average person who might be endangered by a rip tide.
Yeah, but YOU have a surfboard.
Love this
This is nice riptide(s)
justice for targeted individuals
Shark!
Fake news
You're wrong
Alan Wayne no fake news
@@jonsmith5099 youre wrong
@@pelasion5099 no you are wrong a tree can't have a beard your opinion is invalid bye bye
@@pelasion5099ur dum