RIP CURRENT ON A BEACH WITH SURF

Here, we popped down to Praa Sands. A popular surfing beach and beach for tourists, in the summer month. It also has a number of fantastic rock features for swimming around the headland but I’d always take a guide on this particular swim. You can get a bit of a tidal pull around the point!

Praa Sands is a long beach, with shifting sand banks and regular surf (when I say shifting, I generally mean over days and weeks). As it’s such a long beach, rip currents can and will move with state of the tide.

This video shows a good example of a rip current. The rip doesn’t proceed out at a perfect 90 degrees, like most diagrams and isn’t entirely straight forward.

Rip current at Praa Sands beach.