AERIAL VIEW OF RIP CURRENT

Aerial views of rip currents are always make rip currents easier to spot. Typically with a rip current, you’re looking for a deeper, darker channel of water, you can see objects floating out, waves down typically break into rip currents and quite often (but not always), they’ll run along headland, harbour walls, solid structures. This is normally because flat, hard surfaces offer up less resistance than textured, rough surfaces and it’s the easiest path for the water to run along.

This is a video we took last winter, at Perranuthnoe. Perranuthnoe can be a very safe beach to swim at, when it’s flat. Add a bit of surf and it can be quite a different proposition. Lifeguarded through the summer peak season.