Safety around rips | December 28, 2023 | The Advcoate - video Dailymotion

Clinton Heyworth from the Burnie Surf Life Saving Club explains how to stay safe around unpredictable rips. Video by Jess Flint.

Transcript

00:00 If we can sit up at the top of the beach there and just look out while we're up on the stands,

00:06 so we can look out and take notice of what's out in the water.

00:10 Look for objects, look for floating objects, look for where that water's moving so we can

00:15 see what's going on out there.

00:17 If we take that time at the start of the day, the waves aren't going anywhere, they're hanging

00:21 about.

00:22 So if we can take that five seconds, five minutes, whatever it might be, to observe

00:26 the water, observe the conditions, what we're looking for is the water running out.

00:30 That's the biggest clue.

00:32 So what you get is generally some dirty water coming out because the water has to go somewhere.

00:37 It's coming up as the waves crash up, it's got to travel out somewhere.

00:40 So it finds the lowest point on the beach.

00:42 So what you're looking for is, like what I've got over here, the sand's slowly coming out

00:47 and it's starting to create a rip.

00:49 Or we've got further up the beach, we've got the travelling rip which moves up and down.

00:53 So that's the tricky part about the Burnie Beach is that there is a travelling rip up

00:57 here because it's such a small beach.

00:59 We do have a constant or a regular one near the rocks here, but the travelling rip is

01:04 the trickiest one because it's moving up and down the beach all day.

01:08 Whoa!

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