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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Three minutes was all it took to save three teenagers from drowning after they were rescued from a rip current at Strand Beach on Friday. The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said they were ...

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 ...

Cape Town - Two Good Samaratin surfers have helped to save a Gauteng family of three swept out to sea in a rip current in Stilbaai. National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) station commander, ...

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 ...