{"id":24551,"date":"2013-10-18T21:57:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2013\/10\/nsri-national-water-safety-message\/"},"modified":"2013-10-18T21:57:36","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T19:57:36","slug":"nsri-national-water-safety-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/nsri-national-water-safety-message\/","title":{"rendered":"NSRI National Water Safety Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsr_floatbts_anchor\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Spring Tide has begun with the approaching full moon (Full Moon: Saturday, early morning, 19th of October) and hence Spring Tide will peak on Saturday 19th October meaning a higher than normal high tide, a lower than normal low tide and stronger than normal rip currents beginning now and continuing into the middle of next week.<\/p>\n<p>Beach bathers, paddlers, boaters and shoreline anglers are urged to exercise extreme caution around the coastline over this period.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spring tide happens twice during every month of the year, at full moon and again at new moon, affecting every coastline.<\/li>\n<li>There are two high tides and two low tides every day.<\/li>\n<li>Spring tides are the exceptionally high and low tides that occur during the full moon phase and during the new moon phase.<\/li>\n<li>These exceptionally high \u2018high tides\u2019 and exceptionally low \u2018low tides\u2019 cause rip currents to be more forceful than normal.<\/li>\n<li>Areas that are not normally engulfed by water during normal tide patterns are usually engulfed by water during the spring tide\u2019s high tide.<\/li>\n<li>This phenomenon creates the greatest risk to bathers at beaches and to fishermen angling from rocks along the coastline.<\/li>\n<li>Extreme caution is advised to bathers, anglers, paddlers and boaters during spring tide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>These businesses support <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/mype.co.za\/new\/2011\/07\/more-ad-choices-on-mype\/\">MyPE<\/a> supports PE business:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Spring Tide has begun with the approaching full moon (Full Moon: Saturday, early morning, 19th of October) and hence Spring Tide will peak on Saturday 19th October meaning a higher than normal high tide, a lower than normal low tide and stronger than normal rip currents beginning now and continuing into the middle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3330],"tags":[3338,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-24551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-port-elizabeth","7":"tag-mype-co-za","8":"tag-port-elizabeth-2","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}