Rip Currents

On Thursday we attended a free lecture on rips and how to recognise the signs of them and what to do. Look at site http://www.scienceofthesurf.com/ which is by Dr Rob Brander if interested. It was a facinating one and half hours of talk with lots of short movies seeing how the rips occur. In my 20's I was taken out by a rip on a northern beach, but as I kept a level head, I managed to go to the side and come back to shore.