Surveying rip current survivors: preliminary insights into the experiences of being caught in rip currents [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2012 This paper begins a process of addressing a significant gap in knowledge about people's responses to being caught in rip currents. While rip currents are the primary hazard facing recreational ocean swimmers in Australia, debate exists about the best ...
D. Drozdzewski +8 more
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Beachgoers' ability to identify rip currents at a beach in situ [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2021 Rip currents (“rips”) are the leading cause of drowning on surf beaches worldwide. A major contributing factor is that many beachgoers are unable to identify rip currents. Previous research has attempted to quantify beachgoers' rip identification ability
S. J. Pitman +7 more
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Flow-Based Rip Current Detection and Visualization
IEEE Access, 2022 Rip currents are like rivers of fast-moving water that can quickly carry the unwary out to sea. They are not easy to recognize, especially to the untrained observer.
Issei Mori +4 more
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Analysis of Rip Current Characteristics Using Dye Tracking Method
Atmosphere, 2021 Rip currents are strong water channels flowing away from the shoreline. They can occur on any shore with breaking waves. Rip currents play a significant role in changing the topography of shallow water regions by transporting large amounts of bed ...
Hyun Dong Kim, Kyu-Han Kim
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Interpretable Deep Learning Applied to Rip Current Detection and Localization
Remote Sensing, 2022 A rip current is a strong, localized current of water which moves along and away from the shore. Recent studies have suggested that drownings due to rip currents are still a major threat to beach safety.
Neelesh Rampal +3 more
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Flow Characteristics of the Rip Current System near a Shore-Normal Structure with Regular Waves
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Rip currents are the strong narrow seaward current produced by waves breaking on the coast. Of the many types of rip currents, the present study investigates, experimentally and numerically, the rip current system produced by the wave reflection on a ...
Jie Xu +5 more
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2023 Rip currents are fast offshore currents generated during the breaking process of waves propagating nearshore, posing a potential life safety threat to coastal bathers.
Xinran Ji +5 more
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Public perceptions of a rip current hazard education program: “Break the Grip of the Rip!” [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2017 Rip currents pose a major global beach hazard; estimates of annual rip-current-related deaths in the United States alone range from 35 to 100 per year.
C. Houser +6 more
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Rip current related drowning deaths and rescues in Australia 2004–2011 [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2013 Rip currents are a common hazard to beachgoers found on many beaches around the world, but it has proven difficult to accurately quantify the actual number of rip current related drowning deaths in many regions and countries.
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A wave-resolving modeling study of rip current variability, rip hazard, and swimmer escape strategies on an embayed beach [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2023 Drownings due to rip currents are a major threat to beach safety. In this study a high-resolution Boussinesq model with a modified wave-resolving Lagrangian tracking module has been applied to a 2 km long embayed beach, Dadonghai of Sanya, Hainan Island,
Y. Yuan +10 more
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