Multiple drownings have been recorded in recent weeks along the northeastern South Carolina coastline. Here’s how those numbers compare to previous years, and if rip currents are actually worse in the ...

Anderson “Chase” Childers, 38, of Dallas, Ga., was killed Sunday after becoming caught in a rip current. "In a heroic act, he ...

A Georgia father who died on South Carolina’s Pawleys Island over the weekend had helped save multiple swimmers in distress from a rip current before drowning, authorities have confirmed.

The former police officer helped to save multiple people caught in a rip current before his death, authorities said.