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Rip current knowledge: do people really know its danger? do lifeguards know more than the general public? [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Introduction: Drowning is a global problem. This so-called “silent killer” claims hundreds of thousands of lives every year around the world. Despite this, beaches are a fundamental space in the lives of many people throughout the world.
Pelayo Diez-Fernández +3 more
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Comparison of Rip Current Hazard Likelihood Forecasts with Observed Rip Current Speeds [PDF]
Weather and Forecasting, 2017 AbstractAlthough rip currents are a major hazard for beachgoers, the relationship between the danger to swimmers and the physical properties of rip current circulation is not well understood. Here, the relationship between statistical model estimates of hazardous rip current likelihood and in situ velocity observations is assessed.
Melissa Moulton +3 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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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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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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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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YOLO-Rip: A modified lightweight network for Rip currents detection
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 Rip currents form on beaches worldwide and pose a potential safety hazard for beach visitors. Therefore, effectively identifying rip currents from beach scenes and providing real-time alerts to beach managers and beachgoers is crucial. In this study, the
Daoheng Zhu +5 more
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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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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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Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2011 Rip currents are fast-moving flows, traveling “outward almost at right angles to the shore” ( Shepard 1936 ), creating a natural hazard for beachgoers, who suddenly find themselves in deep water. Field measurements and instrumentation, laboratory techniques, and numerical modeling have improved with time, enabling a more complete description of rip ...
Dalrymple, Robert A. +3 more
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