{"id":868123,"date":"2026-06-15T04:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868123\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T04:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:20:22","slug":"rip-current-danger-continues-along-all-san-diego-beaches-as-summer-begins-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/868123\/","title":{"rendered":"Rip current danger continues along all San Diego beaches as summer begins \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

A high risk of dangerous rip currents continues along the San Diego County coastline after the National Weather Service extended its Beach Hazards Statement <\/a>through Friday, warning swimmers and surfers to use extreme caution in the water. <\/p>\n

Powerful southern swells are creating rough surf and hazardous ocean conditions from San Diego County north through Orange County, increasing the risk of strong rip currents that can quickly pull people away from shore.<\/p>\n

On Mission Beach and at Tourmaline Surf Park, beachgoers are balancing recreation with awareness for the danger.<\/p>\n

Professional surf coach Roberto Baquerizo knows firsthand how quickly conditions can become life-threatening.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of water moving, a lot of currents,\u201d Baquerizo said. \u201cYou start getting out of breath. You get fearful. That\u2019s the time you have to calm down and make smart decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roberto Baquerizo is a professional surf coach with experience in surviving life-threatneing rip currents. Sunday, he checked out swells at Tourmaline Surf Park where he offered lessons, Pacific Beach, Calif., June 14, 2026.<\/p>\n

The National Weather Service says waves could reach up to 7 feet this week.<\/p>\n

For experienced surfers, the warning is a reminder that even seasoned athletes have to respect the power of the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

Bruce Burgos, a professional surfer from Ecuador who trains with Baquerizo, said panic is often the biggest mistake people make when caught in a rip current.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people get scared or they get impatient,\u201d Burgos said through a translation. \u201cBut that\u2019s something they definitely should not do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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You start getting out of breath. You get fearful. That\u2019s the time you have to calm down and make smart decisions.<\/p>\n

Roberto Baquerizo, Professional Surf Coach<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Experienced surfer Katherine Austin said surviving challenging conditions requires constant focus.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t slack off when you\u2019ve got a slab of freezing cold green water coming at you,\u201d Austin told NBC 7. \u201cYou don\u2019t think about how tired you are. You paddle faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

San Diego lifeguards stress that swimmers caught in a rip current should not attempt to swim directly against it. Instead, they recommend swimming parallel to the shoreline until free of the current before heading back to shore.<\/p>\n

Baquerizo said many people exhaust themselves by fighting the current head-on.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re using all your strength, all the gas in the tank, and you\u2019re wasting it in the wrong direction,\u201d he said. \u201cAgainst the force that\u2019s way bigger than you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high risk of dangerous rip currents continues along the San Diego County coastline after the National Weather…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":868124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,31724,3549,17923,7264,71777,18946,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-868123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-beaches","tag-sandiego","tag-surfing","tag-swimming","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116752209771626509","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}