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Rip Current Awareness

RipCurrentWith predictions for stormier than usual weather patterns this summer, the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium (NJMSC) and its New Jersey Sea Grant Program are redoubling efforts to educate beach goers about the dangers of rip currents.
NJMSC and NJ Sea Grant took the lead in New Jersey in 2004 and created a comprehensive rip current awareness campaign for the state which included designing, producing and distributing thousands of metal signs including a Spanish version, warning swimmers about the danger of rip currents and illustrating what to do if caught in one. The signs were posted at strategic beach access and bathing points in essentially every shore community along the New Jersey coast. RipCurrent Thousands of rip current awareness brochures were also printed and distributed at municipal buildings, beach badge check-points and other strategic locations from Sandy Hook to Cape May . The initial rip current awareness project was a partnership effort between NJMSC and the NJDEP, NJDOT , NJ Travel and Tourism, NOAA-NWS and the NJ State Police OEM.
RipCurrentNJMSC has created this page which includes a downloadable PDF file of its rip current brochure plus a number of useful links to sites to help make swimmers more rip current savvy. A limited number of the metal beach signs are still available.   Municipal officials interested in obtaining additional signs can email Dr. Peter Rowe, Director of the New Jersey Sea Grant Extension Program or by calling him at 732-872-1300 ext 31.


National Weather Service: Rip Currents-Break The Grip of The Rip!®
How Stuff Works: How Rip Currents Work
United States Lifesaving Association: Rip Currents-Rivers Through The Surf
Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia: Rip current
National Weather Service: Surf Zone Forecast-Rip Current Risk
Davidson Laboratory Stevens Institute of Technology: NJ Coastal Monitoring Network
 
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