rip currents can sweep
even best swimmers into
deeper water
Beaufort County, SC Sheriff’s Office
Advisory: Rip Current Statement until 08:00PM Wednesday
- WHAT…For the High Rip Current Risk, dangerous rip currents. For the High Surf Advisory, large breaking waves up to 6 feet in the surf zone.
- WHERE…South Carolina Beaches, and Georgia Beaches.
- WHEN…For the High Rip Current Risk, through Wednesday evening. For the High Surf Advisory, until 8 PM EDT Thursday.
- IMPACTS…Dangerous swimming and surfing conditions and localized beach erosion. Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water.
- AFFECTED AREAS: COASTAL BRYAN … COASTAL CHATHAM … COASTAL LIBERTY … COASTAL MCINTOSH … BEAUFORT … COASTAL COLLETON … CHARLESTON … COASTAL JASPER
Instructions: Inexperienced swimmers should remain out of the water due to dangerous surf conditions.
Summertime beaches of America are patrolled by lifeguards who put out different colored flags to signal swimming conditions.
The colors are pretty much univeral.
Green: Safe to Swim
Yellow: Use Caution
Red: Rough Conditions – Some say beach closed, some say swim at your own risk …
Double Red: Beach closed for Swimming.
Seaside beaches also have a blue or purple flags indicate jellyfish, stingrays, and dangerous fish in the water – something I didn’t have to deal with growing up on the shores of Lake Michigan.
Also, there is this caveat.
Absence of flags does not assure safe waters.
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