rip current

Adrian Don, spokesman for Tynemouth RNLI lifeboat station, said: "The family had apparently gone swimming at Marsden but were caught in a strong rip current.

Strong rip currents can often appear next to structures such as piers and jetties.

* If caught in a rip current, the most important thing to do is stay calm.

Mr Instance said the beach is less predictable since the river changed its course, but that evidence suggested Oneil's death was due to being caught in a rip current rather than anything caused by the river.

Depending on where you are, dangerous rip currents are a possibility.

The RNLI say if you are stuck in a rip current then stay calm, float on your back until you can swim back or call for help.

Only the Umm Suqiem 2 (Jumeira) beach was closed due to high waves and rip currents on Saturday.

Flows that generated from the south was moving along the beach in forms of longshore current, and it was changed into rip current at near the underwater rock, moving to offshore.

Start in the North Park neighborhood at Rip Current Brewing Company (above).

Leslie Thomas Gordon is reported to have taken an early morning swim at around 8am near the Praia de Mira beach, when he became caught up in a rip current.

This was brought to people's attention with the tragic loss of life in Norfolk earlier this summer, when one man died when swimmers were caught in a rip current off Great Yarmouth.

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Breaking swells pounded around her as she mounted scientific instruments to steel pipes embedded in the seafloor, while a powerful rip current jerked her away from the shore.