Resisting Rips and Travelators; A fresh perception
Image courtesy of @MattHardy Over the summer, my family and I were playing around the rock pools at one of our local beaches. It was a windy afternoon and the ocean waves were choppy. I looked up and noticed a person drifting closer and closer to the rocks. I turned toward the beach and observed what I assumed to be his friend walking toward us on the rocks. Other people began to notice what was taking place. My heart was racing. When I looked back at the person in the ocean, I noticed he didn’t seem panicked. He looked to be floating - floating right around the rocks to the next bay. He was riding out the rip. The greatest danger at the beach in Australia is not shark attacks, or sunburn. It’s rip current-related drowning. Australian Academy of Science report that there have been 315 rip current-related drowning deaths in the past 15 years, compared to a total of 29 fatal shark attacks during the same period. Living on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, this is our reality. We h
