How to Identify a Rip Surf Safety with Surf & Sun

Identifying a rip is an important skill to have when you want to avoid the surfing hazards.

00:00:15 - Today’s tip of the week with Surf and SunWelcome to today’s tip of the week with Surf and Sun. Today we’re going to talk about rips and rip

current.

00:00:20 - How to identify a RipTraditionally rip current, you identify them by seeing an

area, behind us as you can see down here, there’ll be an area where there’s no waves breaking, you can see

lots of ripples at top of the ocean surface and generally you can see a bit of a browny area as well. Especially on

the sandy beaches when the water is pulling out oppose the sand out rip as well.

00:00:40 - Three things to look forSo the three things to look for: no waves breaking the

area, also for the sand getting pulled out in the rip current, and there’s a lot of ripples on the ocean

surface. That’s the 3 ways to identify a rip.

00:00:51 - Looking for ripsWhen you’re looking for rips, they are great and can be

good for assistance for confident surfers to get them back out to the waves, but for those people who are

just swimming or they are not confident surfers, it can get you in a bit of trouble.

00:01:24 - Middleton BayAs you can see today we are at Middleton Bay, and

we’ve got a rip heading out from the current. In here, you can see the area where there is no waves breaking

which takes the surfers back out to the sea.

There are 3 main things to look out for when identifying a rip which are:

Brown water from the sand being pulled out in the ripLines of bubbles heading out to sea on the surface

No waves - as the water is deeper where the rip is stopping the waves from breaking

The other thing to look out for is ripples on the surface.Keep safe in the surf with instruction during one of our

learn to surf lessons at Middleton or Moana.

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