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Column: This unseen danger threatens swimmers on the beach
Rudi Kiefer
Living on the North Carolina Coast during all of the 1990s made the term “rip currents” a firm part of my vocabulary. Swimming in the ocean isn’t like swimming in a hotel pool. The water moves almost constantly in both a horizontal and vertical sense.