Florida Rip Currents 101 — How to Spot Them, How to Escape, and Why They Kill More People Than Sharks

Florida leads the country in surf-zone rip-current deaths — more than sharks, alligators, and lightning combined. Here's the survival manual: how to spot a rip from the dry sand, why your instinct to swim back is exactly wrong, and the boring 30-second move that has saved thousands of lives.