Robert2300
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Have any of you guys ever got caught in a rip tide
while in the water?
Robt2300
while in the water?
Robt2300
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Just curious.....
- Thread starter Robert2300
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Yeah, they are notorious and frequently deadly up here on the shores of Lake Michigan. They usually take a @dozen people per year. Even strong swimmers, probably because strong swimmers are not afraid of the water at all and get into a situation. its when a person fights against the current that they get into trouble. With the rip, theres generally heavy breaking surf, so a person it getting water over their head and fighting a strong current and cant get air. I just float on my back like a sea otter, breath between the waves, relax and enjoy the ride. Detecting in the water, you can feel a rip on your legs, and its a lot easier to detect "downstream" with a gentle rip..if its real bad and you cant hardly stand up, its too tough to dig a hole anyway cause it fills in too fast.
I like hunting AFTER a big rip, what was once a sandbar may be completely gone or moved, and you need to pay attention so you know where that happened and where would be a good place to hunt. I'm sure rips are everywhere theres a big body of water and a steady strong wind that piles the water up until it has to go out somewhere, sometimes sideways down the beach, and sometimes straight out, depending on the structures in the vicinity like a pier, just one of those things. If you are a weak swimmer but wear even a shorty wetsuit, and don't panic, you have a decent chance of riding one out without sinking, probably a better chance of living than a strong swimmer with no flotation trying to fight it. which is pretty much impossible.
Mud
I like hunting AFTER a big rip, what was once a sandbar may be completely gone or moved, and you need to pay attention so you know where that happened and where would be a good place to hunt. I'm sure rips are everywhere theres a big body of water and a steady strong wind that piles the water up until it has to go out somewhere, sometimes sideways down the beach, and sometimes straight out, depending on the structures in the vicinity like a pier, just one of those things. If you are a weak swimmer but wear even a shorty wetsuit, and don't panic, you have a decent chance of riding one out without sinking, probably a better chance of living than a strong swimmer with no flotation trying to fight it. which is pretty much impossible.
Mud
dewcon4414
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Ive walked across a couple .... you know. I sayed less than waist deep and brased myself as i walked across it. Sure easy to see how someone could get taken out fast with them. Sometimes you can see them in the water by its movements.
Dew
Dew
PowerDetecting
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I have been rolled a few times not fun at all.
Water wizard
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I've saved many many people from rip currents. I was a beach life guard and surf instructor. People get caught out every day when the surfs good. They occur next to rocks and man made structures. The waves push the water up the beach, it flows cross the beach side ways until it hits a cliff, pier or rocks. Then it goes back out to sea. People feel safe because they are next to the rocks, pier etc. but the water there is often flowing straight out to sea. You have to swim across the current, or let it take you out, and then swim across and out of it then back in.Even Strong swimmers can't swim against a powerful rip. after trying to swim against one for a bit they get tired and drown. You can spot rips, normally you can see no waves breaking where the rip is, and bits of twigs and debris floating out to sea. They occur in the middle of bays, and on either side. If there is good size waves, there will be a rip current of water moving out to sea. When the water moves across the beach it's called long shore drift. If you take a mark fom a fixed structure on the beach You can tell if you are being pulled to the left or right. If you are you will likely end up in the rip where that water goes back out to sea. If your bing pulled to the side walk back to te beach, walk along the sand and then go back out again. It is scarey! Just don't panic and if you can call for assistance, ditch your kit if you need to! Good luck out there guys 
Robert2300
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I was down in Australia on what looked like a nice sandy placid beach. I walked out
until the water was just half way up to the calf and I could feel this tremendous
force pulling at me legs. Very scary. I just barely made it back to the dry sand. Scared
the living %$##@#$ out of me.
Robt2300
until the water was just half way up to the calf and I could feel this tremendous
force pulling at me legs. Very scary. I just barely made it back to the dry sand. Scared
the living %$##@#$ out of me.
Robt2300
Water wizard
New member
Wow, that is scary! I guess that would have been hard to see until you were in it, I always hunt on my own, but it is safer when there are 2 of you, at least you made it mate
Various degrees of strength. I always use them to catch fish. Only worry I have is if I'm wearing waders.
For years we use to ride waves and just push into a rip to take us back out. As long as you can swim (and not wearing waders) just go with the flow- it eventually stops taking you out. If you swim with the rip -like you're in a creek- you can angle on the way out to the desired area to ride a wave back in.
As stated never try to fight current. Always use the current to help you with an exit strategy. If that doesn't work chose another exit or plan-but always with the current.
For years we use to ride waves and just push into a rip to take us back out. As long as you can swim (and not wearing waders) just go with the flow- it eventually stops taking you out. If you swim with the rip -like you're in a creek- you can angle on the way out to the desired area to ride a wave back in.
As stated never try to fight current. Always use the current to help you with an exit strategy. If that doesn't work chose another exit or plan-but always with the current.