How do you swim against current?

Trying to swim against a rip current will only use up your energy; energy you need to survive and escape the rip current. Do NOT try to swim directly into to shore. Swim along the shoreline until you escape the current’s pull. When free from the pull of the current, swim at an angle away from the current toward shore.

What to do if you get stuck in an ocean current?

If you do get caught in a rip current, the best thing you can do is stay calm. It’s not going to pull you underwater, it’s just going to pull you away from shore. Call and wave for help. You want to float, and you don’t want to swim back to shore against the rip current because it will just tire you out.

What do swim against the current mean?

Go against prevailing opinion or thought, as in I’m voting for him even if that is swimming against the current.

What is the best way to swim against a rip current?

You want to float, and you don’t want to swim back to shore against the rip current because it will just tire you out. You want to swim out of the rip, parallel to shore, along the beach and then follow breaking waves back to shore at an angle. When you first get to the beach, the best thing you can do is swim near a lifeguard.

How do you stay calm while swimming in the ocean?

It is important to remain relaxed and stay in tune with the movement of the waves. Adjust your breathing to swim through unpredictable waves and keep up your momentum no matter what. Dive under waves when necessary, or attempt to ride over them if they are under five feet.

Is sea swimming hard to learn?

Sea swimming is not the time or place to show off your skills, especially if you start to swim far out from the shore. It is easy to overestimate your ability and become too tired to swim back. In the pool, that’s no problem, you just wander over to the side and climb out, towel off, and go home.

What is the speed of rip current in swimming?

The currents usually move at 1 to 2 feet per second (0.3 to 0.6 meters per second), but stronger ones can pull at 8 feet per second (1.6 meters/second). That’s the same pace as a world-record Olympic freestyler, Carey said. “Even an Olympic swimmer would find themselves going backward in a rip current pulse,” she said.