A UK tourist’s life was saved by a courageous lifeguard after a harrowing 45-minute struggle in a rip current at Wilderness ...

To ensure your safety while enjoying coastal activities, the NSRI recommends the following precautions: • Swim at lifeguard-protected beaches: To avoid rip currents, swim between lifeguard flags.

An 18-year-old teenager is missing at sea after being swept out by rip currents at Sea Park Beach, Port Shepstone, on Sunday afternoon. The National Sea Rescue Institute's (NSRI) duty controller at ...

Fluorecein dye highlights a rip current at Dappat se Gat in False Bay. PHOTO NSRI Do not become a rip current casualty. Swim at lifeguarded beaches. On average, 56 people drown because of rip ...

Rip currents are powerful channels of water that flow away from shore, often causing life-threatening conditions for swimmers ...

The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) are still searching for a man presumed drowned at Scottburgh beach in KZN.

where stronger tidal flows intensify rip currents, posing a risk to swimmers. The NSRI advised the public to swim at lifeguard-protected beaches and to go into the water between lifeguard flags to ...

The two victims had been swept about 100 meters offshore and were in difficulty in the surf zone, caught up in rip currents.

The cancelation of the 37th annual Lobster Dip on New Year's Day was an unfortunate reminder that rip currents aren't just a threat in summer. With 450 people slated to run into the ocean on New ...

The National Weather Service issued a rip current statement at 2:09 a.m. on Wednesday in effect until Thursday at 5 a.m. The NWS says to anticipate, "Dangerous rip currents." "Rip currents can ...

On Sunday at 1:32 a.m. the National Weather Service issued a rip current statement in effect until 9 p.m. "Rip currents can sweep even the best swimmers away from shore into deeper water ...

The National Weather Service issued a rip current statement at 2:41 a.m. on Thursday valid from Friday 6 a.m. until Saturday 6 p.m. for Mobile and Baldwin counties. The weather service describes ...