Dr Rip's 5 Best Rip Tips

Have you seen Dr Rip's purple dye presentation? You can catch it in this video as he lets you in on his 5 best tips for avoiding rips! Dr Rob Brander is a coastal geomorphologist and Professor in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, NSW, Australia. He has been studying beaches and surf zones for 20 years having completed a BSc and MSc at the University of Toronto where Canadian water temperatures convinced him to live in Australia. His PhD on the morphodynamics of rip currents was completed at the University of Sydney in 1997. He has published over 40 articles based on his research on rip currents, coral reef-islands, and the 2004 tsunami and has taught at UNSW since 2000.