{"id":2691,"date":"2024-07-03T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T22:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/what-is-a-rip-current-and-how-can-you-survive-if-you-get-caught-in-one\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T22:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T22:22:48","slug":"what-is-a-rip-current-and-how-can-you-survive-if-you-get-caught-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/what-is-a-rip-current-and-how-can-you-survive-if-you-get-caught-in-one\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a rip current, and how can you survive if you get caught in one?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going into the ocean is not always the safest endeavor. While many people fear sharks and other creatures that lurk beneath the waves, they&#8217;re more at risk of falling victim to a rip current. These powerful events have caused 19 deaths at U.S. beaches this year, according to the National Weather Service. &#8220;The stronger the current, the more dangerous it&#8217;ll be,&#8221; said Cristina Schultz, Foley Family assistant professor in marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University. According to Dalton Sasaki, an oceanographer and postdoctoral research associate at Northeastern, rip currents <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/what-is-a-rip-current-and-how-can-you-survive-if-you-get-caught-in-one\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going into the ocean is not always the safest endeavor. While many people fear sharks and other creatures that lurk beneath the waves, they&#8217;re more at risk of falling victim to a rip current. These powerful events have caused 19 deaths at U.S. beaches this year, according to the National Weather Service. &#8220;The stronger the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}