Between 2000 and 2024, there were 192 rip current drownings (~8 per year) reported in North and South Carolina, according the NWS.

Rip currents are silent killers. These fast-moving channels of water can reach speeds of 1 to 2 feet per second, but have ...

Over the Easter weekend, seven people drowned along the Australian coast. Most were swept off rock platforms— extremely ...

Business Insider spoke with expert navigator Tristan Gooley, author of "How To Read Water: Clues & Patterns from Puddles to the Sea", about how the light reflections in water have hidden clues to ...

From the Atlantic to the Pacific, beachgoers are being warned to stay out of the water as a surge of hazardous ocean conditions triggers advisories across U.S. coastlines this week. The National ...

Ocean Rescue said those currents are why they rescued 10 people over the last two days, and why a teen tragically drowned.

This wind swell will last throughout the day Friday and into the weekend but the only downside will be the choppy ... range. Waves form as winds blow over the surface of a body of water.

A tsunami is a series of waves caused by a significant and sudden movement of water in the ocean. The most common trigger for tsunamis is large earthquakes that occur beneath or near the ocean ...