T/F Rip currents account for over 80% of rescues performe

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Rip Current Statistics
Rip Current Formation
Types of Rip Currents
Rip Currents Safety
Principal Reasons People Die In A Rip Current
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Rip Current Statistics

• T/F - Around 100 people die in rip currents each
  year in the United States

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Rip Current Statistics

• T/F Which state has the most rip current deaths
• a. Florida
• b. California
• c. Carolinas
• d. All of the above

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A. Florida
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Rip Current Statistics

• T/F - Rip currents also kill people in the Great
  Lakes.

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Rip Currents Statistics

• T/ F What are the chances of drowning at a
  beach protected by lifeguards affiliated with the
  United States Lifesaving Association (USLA)?
• One in 2 million
• One in 18 million
• One in 23 million
• One in 50 million

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B. One in 18 million
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Rip Currents

• Rip currents account for over ___ of rescues
  performed by surf beach lifeguards.
• 20
• 30
• 70
• 80

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D. 80
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Rip Current Formation
Deceiving, it looks like a nice calm area
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An area of deeper water where waves dont break
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Rip Current Formation

• What is the correct sequence of rip current
  formation?
• Wave travels to the beach, waves break on
  sandbars, water runs off beach through a channel.
• B. Waves break on sandbars, wave travels to the
  beach, water runs off beach through a channel.
• C. Water runs off beach through a channel, wave
  travels to the beach, waves break on sandbars.
• D. None of the above.

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B. Waves break on sandbars, wave travels to the
beach, water runs off beach through a channel.
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Rip Current Formation

• The longer the period between waves
• a. The more energy in the the waves.
• b. The faster the waves move.
• c. The more momentum the waves carry.
• d. A and B
• e. A,B, and C

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E. a, b, and c
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Rip Current Formation

• __________ is proportional to amplitude or height
  squared

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Wave energy
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Rip Current Formation

• When do rip currents become most dangerous?
• a. During high surf conditions as the wave height
  and wave period increase.
• b. During low surf conditions as the wave height
  and wave period decrease.
• c. During high surf conditions as the wave height
  and wave period decrease.
• d. During low surf conditions as the wave height
  and wave period increase.

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a. During high surf conditions as the wave
height and wave period increase.
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Types of Rip Currents

• This type of rip current is short in duration
  (less than 10 minutes)
• Enhanced by large swells with more wave energy
  and volume.
• Unpredictable temporary conditions and variable
  locations.

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What is a Flash Rip Current?
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Types of Rip Currents

• This type of rip current develops along jetties,
  piers, and groins.

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What is a Permanent rip current?
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Types of Rip Currents

• This type of rip current is dependent upon shape
  of coast, bays, points, reefs or sand bars.

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What is a Fixed rip current?
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Types of Rip Currents

• This type of rip current occurs with long shore
  (parallel to beach) current.
• Pushes rip away from original location and
  weakens it.

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What is a Traveling rip current?
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Types of Rip Currents

• A long shore current may push swimmer into
• Flash rip current
• Permanent rip current
• Fixed rip current
• All of the above

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D. All of the above
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Rip Currents Safety

• T/F Rip currents do not pull people under the
  waterthey pull people away from the shore.

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True
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Rip Currents Safety

• T/F Undertow and riptides are the same as rip
  currents.

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False
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Rip Currents Safety

• T/F Rip currents only occur on beaches near the
  ocean.

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False, they also occur in the Great Lakes.
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Rip Currents Safety

• T/F Rip Currents can be very narrow or more
  than 50 yards wide.

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True
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Rip Currents Safety

• T/F Rip currents do not affect strong
  swimmers/Olympic swimmers.

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False
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Principal reasons people die in a rip current

• T/F Poor swimmers

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Principal reasons people die in a rip current

• T/F Unaware of hazardous conditions

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Truealways check with the lifeguard on duty and
learn about rip currents at www.ripcurrents.noaa.g
ov before going to the beach or Great Lakes area
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Principal reasons people die in a rip current

• T/F Intoxicated

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Principle reasons people die in a rip current

• T/F No flotation device

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Principal reasons people die in a rip current

• T/F Panic and swim directly toward shore
  against the rip current, become exhausted and
  drown

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