It is worth one’s time to learn to recognize what a rip current looks like from shore. There presence can be detected visually by looking at the waters surface in reference to surrounding surf.
They also cut channels in any sandbars that surround them.
There is generally a rip about every 100 yards or so.
It is also good to know the procedure from swimming out of one, how to float on one’s back and how to swim on one’s back so that one may breath the entire time, because swimming in a current is incredibly exhausting.
Swimming in open water is nothing like swimming in a pool.
thanks for the info
I was thinking the rip currents must be pretty strong as our weather here is dead out of the south if not quartered slightly SSE. The storm moving through had strong following winds. Perfect for rip tides.