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    Staying Safe on a Surf Beach: What Are Rip Currents? (2019)

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    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/16607
    
    Publisher's DOI/URI
    https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2019.00033
    
    Publisher
    Frontiers Media SA
    ISSN
    2296-6846
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    Authors
    Pitman SJ
    Gallop SL
    Brander RW
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    Citation
    Pitman SJ, Gallop SL, Brander RW Staying Safe on a Surf Beach: What Are Rip Currents?. Frontiers for Young Minds. 7.
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    ANZSRC Fields of Research
    37 - Earth sciences::3709 - Physical geography and environmental geoscience::370903 - Natural hazards
    37 - Earth sciences::3708 - Oceanography::370803 - Physical oceanography
    44 - Human society::4406 - Human geography::440608 - Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
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    COPYRIGHT © 2019 Pitman, Gallop and Brander. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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