Amid warnings for recent shark bites off Long Island beaches, officials want beachgoers to know about other dangerous threats.
Stacey Sager reports from Nickerson Beach Park, where Nassau County officials announced a rip current safety iniaitive.Nassau County officials announced a new rip current safety initiative at beaches throughout the county.Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman on Wednesday declared it Rip Current Awareness Month.
It can be tiring to fight a rip current and one safety tip is not to fight it -- swim parallel to the shoreline."Your changes of being bit by a shark are one in a million, maybe more, but your chances of getting caught in a rip current are much much more probable, so we have to know how to negotiate our way out of rip currents," Blakeman said.
Now de Moura has made it her mission to educate the public about rip currents. She said it is what her daughter would have wanted.
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