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The National Sea Rescue Institute has called on holidaymakers to be extra cautious between now and the New Year with the New Moon Spring Tide.
This peaked on Monday, and causes stronger than normal rip currents.
NSRI has urged extreme public caution around the coast until into the New Year, since very strong rip currents are present and will remain for the next six to eight days.
Bathers and shoreline anglers are most at risk and extreme caution is advised
Spring Tide happens twice every month, at full moon and at new moon.
Rip currents are caused when the water reaching the shoreline in waves, swells and sea currents needs to find a way to retreat back into the sea.
This is achieved in rip currents - a river of water retreating through the incoming swells back out into the sea.
