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Rip Current Infographics

 

Known your option
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Ocean waves are shown breaking offshore with text: Don't Put Yourself at Risk: How to help someone caught in a rip current. Carefully assess the situation. Is the person unable to return to shore? Get help from a lifeguard. If there is no lifeguard, call 9-1-1. Advise the person to swim following the shoreline to escape the current. If possible, throw the person something that floats. Never enter the water without a floatation device. Many people have died trying to rescue someone caught in a rip current.
Only swim at beaches with lifeguards. Your life could depend on it.
Caught In A Rip Current? How To Survive
Wave Safe: Let's Get Started
Never Dive Into Shallow Water
Cold Water Fact: Life Jacket
Only Swim At Beaches With Lifeguards
Don't Forget The Sunscreen
Protect Yourself From Heat & Sun
Know when it's safe to enter the water: weather.gov. (Pictured: people entering the ocean from the beach)
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What does Weather-Ready look like? Before the beach: Families who recognize that swimming at a surf beach with crashing waves is not the same as swimming in a pool. These families only swim at beaches with lifeguards.
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Helping Others: Beach Hazards. Educate people who aren't familiar with beach hazards. If someone is calling for help, take 10 seconds to assess the situation, then alert a lifeguard. While help is coming, see if there's a floatation device to throw their way.
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Your safe place from rip currents: rip currents kill over 50 beach-goers in the U.S. each year. When visiting the ocean, you are safest at beaches with lifeguards. If rip currents are forecasted for the beach you're visiting, stay out of the water!
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Spring Break
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