This week is National Rip Current Awareness Week, per the NOAA website. If you are planning a summer (or any season) trip to the Outer Banks (or any beach), please take the time to educate yourself and your family about the dangers of rip currents, and how to respond if you get caught in one.
Here are some resources for more information:
Eena project
NPS Swimming Safety page
Yes, I know I already blogged about this and I sound like a stuck record. But it's truly important, because tragedy is not a good way to end a vacation. Every year, there are drowning deaths on the Outer Banks as a result of rip currents. There has already been one this year here on Ocracoke. What I find saddest about those facts is that, with just a little bit of education, these losses are preventable.
Learn all you can. Then wade out for a swim! (Come to think of it, that's a good philosophy about life in general too...)
Stay safe out there...
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