Water Smart Collier

Water Smart CollierWater Smart CollierWater Smart Collier
  • Home
  • Water Safety
    • Water Safety Month
    • Layers of Protection
    • Supervision
    • Barriers
    • Swimming Programs
    • CPR
    • Seguridad en el Agua
    • LifeJacket Loaner Program
    • Emergency Preparedness
    • SHALLOW WATER BLACKOUT
    • HOW TO ESCAPE SINKING CAR
    • Rip Currents
    • Stewie the Duck
    • Water Smart Kids
    • Largest Swimming Lesson
  • In Memory
  • Events/Meetings
  • ABOUT US
    • Contact Us
    • Advisory Board
    • Community Partners
    • Mission & Vision
  • DONATE
  • More
    • Home
    • Water Safety
      • Water Safety Month
      • Layers of Protection
      • Supervision
      • Barriers
      • Swimming Programs
      • CPR
      • Seguridad en el Agua
      • LifeJacket Loaner Program
      • Emergency Preparedness
      • SHALLOW WATER BLACKOUT
      • HOW TO ESCAPE SINKING CAR
      • Rip Currents
      • Stewie the Duck
      • Water Smart Kids
      • Largest Swimming Lesson
    • In Memory
    • Events/Meetings
    • ABOUT US
      • Contact Us
      • Advisory Board
      • Community Partners
      • Mission & Vision
    • DONATE

Water Smart Collier

Water Smart CollierWater Smart CollierWater Smart Collier
  • Home
  • Water Safety
    • Water Safety Month
    • Layers of Protection
    • Supervision
    • Barriers
    • Swimming Programs
    • CPR
    • Seguridad en el Agua
    • LifeJacket Loaner Program
    • Emergency Preparedness
    • SHALLOW WATER BLACKOUT
    • HOW TO ESCAPE SINKING CAR
    • Rip Currents
    • Stewie the Duck
    • Water Smart Kids
    • Largest Swimming Lesson
  • In Memory
  • Events/Meetings
  • ABOUT US
    • Contact Us
    • Advisory Board
    • Community Partners
    • Mission & Vision
  • DONATE

How to Avoid and Survive Rip Currents

If you should get caught in a rip current, don’t panic. Try to remember a few simple rules from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

  • Keep calm. Don’t fight the rip current.
  • To get out of the rip current, swim sideways, parallel to the beach. This will get you out of the rip current so you can swim back in with the waves helping you along.
  • When out of the rip current, swim at an angle away from the rip current and toward shore.
  • If you can’t escape this way, try to float or calmly tread water. Rip current strength eventually weakens offshore. When it does,swim away from the rip current toward shore.
  • If at any time you are unable to reach the shore, draw attention to yourself: face the shore, wave your arms, and yell for help.

For more tips on how to avoid and survive rip currents, visit NOAA’s Rip Current Awareness Week  Web site. While you’re there, check out cool video footage and aerial photographs, including video animation of a swimmer caught in a rip current, as well as first-person accounts from rip current survivors. NOAA logo.

Rip Current Survival Guide

Know Your Options

RIP CURRENT

How to Avoid Getting Caught in a Rip Current 

Find out more

Copyright © 2020 NCH Safe & Healthy Children's Coalition 

All Rights Reserved.

Powered by

may is water safety month

All May long, we’ll be bringing you resources for celebrating Water Safety Month!

click here to learn more