Gulf Coast Rip Current Awareness Week 🌊Survive A Rip Current🌊 Beach Survival Tips: ⚠️Caught in a Rip current? DON'T PANIC. 🏊Good swimmer? Swim parallel to shore til you clear the pull of the rip current. 🤷Not a skilled swimmer? Flip on your back & float. 📣WAVE & YELL to get the lifeguard's attention! ⛱️Be #BeachSmart! | Okaloosa Board of County Commissioners

Know how to spot and survive a rip current? It's crucial to know this info around here. And recently, two deputies saved six people from the churning Gulf. Read that story here: http://www.pnj.com/story/news/2016/07/27/deputies-credited-saving-family-rough-gulf/87621826/ | Pensacola News Journal

42K views · 61 reactions | Find out how to identify a rip current, and what to do if you’re caught in one, in this “Rip Current Survival Guide.” It could save your life: https://oceantoday.noaa.gov/every-full-moon/episode9-ripcurrent/welcome.html | NOAA Ocean Today | Facebook