California's famous surf beaches are also home to some of the world's most powerful rip currents.

The California coastline is over 840 miles long, with hundreds of beaches of all shapes, sizes and types and rip currents are the principal hazard at the majority of those beaches. In this video a former Huntington State Beach Lifeguard, employed by California State Parks, describes a weekend where he and his colleagues made hundreds of rip current rescues. For more fascinating videos on how rip current problems are being managed around the world, go to www.ripcurrentsafety.com