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Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) SLSA has launched a new national rip current education campaign in December 2009. Please have a look at their excellent website at: www.ripcurrents.com.au They also have developed an amazing site loaded with information about Australian beaches. Everything you want to know about a particular beach can be found at: www.beachsafe.org.au Surf Educate Australia takes kids to the beach and teaches them hands on surf skills and surf safety. SEA Australia and the Science of the Surf are now working together to provide better in-class surf safety education. Australian Professional Ocean Lifeguard Association (APOLA) Professional lifeguards work most of Australia's beaches and this site includes some beach safety information as well as how to become a lifeguard. Royal Life Saving Australia (RLS) Australian Water Safety Council (AWSC) United States Break the Grip of the Rip Program Excellent American site devoted to learning more about rip currents. Explore the links to find a ton of good information. The US seems to be well ahead of Australia in terms of promoting rip current awareness. |
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Great site packed with information on surfing conditions. Plenty of links to wave information and beach and surf cams. A must visit for Australian surfers Amazing Australian network of beach and surf cams and information relating to surfing and the coast. Check out their CoastalComs page for exciting new advances in scientific monitoring of beaches. Local surfers, lifeguards and surf photographers Brad Morgan and Brad Malyon have created a local Eastern Suburbs Sydney surfing website with great photography and other related material. They also produce a magazine that has Science of the Surf features. |
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Manly Hydraulics Laboratory (MHL) This link provides real time information on offshore wave characteristics in NSW including height, period, direction and temperature Andy is the Director of the Sydney University Coastal Studies Unit and is the only person on the planet to have visited every single beach in Australia. He has produced beach guides to every state in Oz and you find out more information about them at: http://www.sup.usyd.edu.au/marine US site with the best animations of rip currents I’ve seen to date and an excellent resource for coastal processes. You need to register though. A good source of who’s who in the world of rip research although it focuses on the US. |
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