A rip current is the flow of water that goes back out to sea. Waves come in, and that water has to go somewhere. Rip currents are dangerous as that can drag you out. People panic when in rips because they are a lot stronger than what people can swim. If you’re ever in one, don’t swim against it but swim parallel to it to get out.
I had to look up sneaker wave but it sounds like just a poorly defined term for a big wave you don’t see coming so you can easily get knocked down by it.
I’ve been caught in a rip current before though and it’s terrifying. It’s a current that’s moving very quickly away from the beach and out to sea. A couple times boogie boarding as a kid we got caught in them and it was like no matter how hard we swam we weren’t getting any closer back to the beach. It’s dangerous too because you don’t feel it so much when you’re going out, only when you try to go back in.
For rip currents the thing to do is to swim parallel to the beach to get out of it. It’s usually a pretty narrow area where the current is actually happening, and if you swim to the side of it you’ll get out and can swim back like normal.
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A rip current is the flow of water that goes back out to sea. Waves come in, and that water has to go somewhere. Rip currents are dangerous as that can drag you out. People panic when in rips because they are a lot stronger than what people can swim. If you’re ever in one, don’t swim against it but swim parallel to it to get out.
I had to look up sneaker wave but it sounds like just a poorly defined term for a big wave you don’t see coming so you can easily get knocked down by it.
I’ve been caught in a rip current before though and it’s terrifying. It’s a current that’s moving very quickly away from the beach and out to sea. A couple times boogie boarding as a kid we got caught in them and it was like no matter how hard we swam we weren’t getting any closer back to the beach. It’s dangerous too because you don’t feel it so much when you’re going out, only when you try to go back in.
For rip currents the thing to do is to swim parallel to the beach to get out of it. It’s usually a pretty narrow area where the current is actually happening, and if you swim to the side of it you’ll get out and can swim back like normal.
Sneaker waves are unexpected large(r) waves that “sneak” on you when you don’t expect them, because the rest of the swell seems normal.
A rip tide is a strong offshore current going through an inlet or similar, pulling you away from the beach.