. I first visited Sunshine as a backpacker way back in 1992 and remember getting fried by the sun and unable to swim because the water was full of gigantic blobs of jellyfish. It all begins with an idea.

This month we’ve got a video which helps demonstrate flash rips really well, but it also raises a lot of questions.

This is quite a famous rip current picture as it turns out. I took this in 2009 while on research sabbatical in Monterey, California where I was working with Professor Jamie MacMahan of the Naval Postgraduate School

When it comes to rips, I usually say 'white is nice, green is mean', but that doesn't apply to flash rips, in fact it's the opposite.