Abstract
ABSTRACT Woodward, E.M., Beaumont, E., Russell, P.E., Wooler, A., Macleod, R., 2013. Analysis of Rip Current Incidents and Victim Demographics in the UK Rip currents are responsible for 67% of all individuals rescued by lifeguards on UK beaches, representing the greatest environmental risk to water users. There are currently no measures of human awareness of rip currents in the UK, and the worldwide research on human behavioural aspects surrounding rip currents is a small emerging research area. In the last few years the physical understanding of rip current behaviour has been much improved by studies using GPS floats. The aim of this study is to discover the key demographic characteristics of beach users caught in rip currents and the spatiotemporal variation in the UK by analysing the Royal National Lifeboat Institutions lifeguard rip current incident data for 2006 to 2011. The results show male teenagers (aged 13–17 years) are the most likely demographic to be involved in a rip incident., In addition, ...
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