Preliminary Investigations and Analysis of Social Public's Awareness of Rip Currents

Abstract

Hainan Province is characterized by deep water, high winds and waves, and a large number of rip currents along the coastal beaches, resulting in frequent drowning accidents. Through online and offline questionnaire surveys, the cognition of beach tourists in Hainan Province on rip currents was revealed from three aspects, demographic characteristics, safety awareness, rip current cognition and coping, and the influencing factors of beach tourists' rip current recognition and coping ability were explored based on the binary Logistic regression model. Meanwhile, the current situation of the management and publicity of beach rip currents was investigated, and countermeasure suggestions were put forward from two perspectives, namely, the enhancement of public cognition and the improvement of beach, which are of great significance to coastal tourism safety, coastal zone layout planning, regulation of safe use of natural resources, prevention and control of marine disasters at source, and public opinion prevention and control of public safety accidents.

Keywords

• rip current
• beach safety
• preliminary investigation
• hazard protection