Deadly rip currents can be seen from aerial view

For the third time this year, someone has drowned after being pulled under by rip currents off Ocean City's beaches. WBOC's meteorologist Dan Satterfield finds rip currents from up above.

[dgaydos]

ANYBODY entering into the ocean needs to read about rip tides and how not to react the wrong way if caught in one. 1. Never attempt to fight against a rip tide. 2. Save all your energy by floating on your back when possible...expending NO energy. 3. Any energy expended should go toward slowly swimming parallel to shore until the force of the rip tide is no longer felt. 4. Sooner or later, you'll move beyond the rip tide's force. Panicking and fighting the rip tide can only serve to end your life. If you don't know how to float on your back comfortably and in a prolonged manner, learn to do that before venturing out past any breakers.

[gcoinhistorian]

Those rips aren't too bad, actually. I'm a former lifeguard and surfer. I've rescued hundreds from rips. This isn't the best example of a bad rip.

[othman]

I got caught in something like this recently, tried to swim against it like an idiot, lost all my energy, eventually made it back alive somehow, i seriously thought i was done for at some point

[tungstenkid]

Rips are made more dangerous because they can unpredicatbly change their location from day to day as the seabed sands shift position up and down the beach.

[TheFilmFanEsco]

About 24hours ago myself and my sister in law got caught in one. I panicked that I couldn’t help her or help myself. Thank god for the surfer and lifeguard that pulled us out. It was mainly loosing energy and panicking that made it a nightmare. I’m alive today.

[sairamr]

A rip current is deadly but escapable.

[DSJVNdsjnvf]

im sorry I don't see one, I just see waves coming to the shore

[mukhumor]

Being a city boy I'd never heard of a rip tide. Until if felt like some force had overcome me and was dragging me backwards into the sea.

[DevelopingJon]

Almost got got by one today in Del Mar on Camp Pendleton’s beach, had to see what they look like from above. Scariest thing I’ve ever encountered in the water. Staying calm and keeping the person who was with me calm was the key. If you’re swimming with someone significantly smaller than you, be sure you can safely guide them to shore, or at least make sure they know not to fight it.

[bigmoncrief]

Rip currents are really dangerous but the ones being filmed here are very small.

[robertforster]

I’ve been caught in a rip current a couple times. You just need to stay calm and you should be okay. I got caught on a sandbar whose entire back half collapsed catching me in an extremely strong undertow. If I hadn’t been wearing a quality life vest at the time, I would have been killed.

[milenmetodiev]

if you got caught in a riptide... just swim with it... and swim around it. don't panic, observe the waters before every swim... those are things i learn since kid... i grew up by the water... many people lost their lives because of small things they ignore....!! be safe people!

[markmark]

So many Asian tourists come to Australia beaches every year and drown in rip-tides, they won't listen, they won't swim between the flags..

[PittheadX]

Not one person headed towards the beach. Is that an asylum facility?

[JordanCrawfordSF]

This was 8 years ago, but imma avoid Ocean City just incase…

[mikemurray]

Im an American surfer and I swim off that same beach and LOVE those rip currents. I get silly happy when those currents pull me way out to where the bull sharks are feeding

[______]

200 yards tf is that?is it like 200 times an area behind a house?

[ky]

Not very clear to me where the rips are.

[martasek]

They aren't called RIP just for fun, you know...

[ofsvwnx]

If you look closely you can see people near those riptides. Right now. Right in the middle.