SOUTHERN CAPE NEWS - The coastline is now experiencing the effect of the Full Moon Spring Tide that peaks on Wednesday 6 September and the effects there of will continue into the coming weekend.

Spring tide happens twice every month, at full moon and again at new moon. It causes a higher than normal high tide, a lower than normal low tide and stronger than normal rip-currents.

There are two high tides and two low tides each day. During a spring tide, areas along the shoreline that are not normally swamped by waves at high tide are swamped by waves often catching people who are standing along the shoreline off-guard.

In particular anglers fishing from the shoreline, public members going to the sea side to walk along the shoreline, shoreline hikers, bathers, boaters and paddlers need to be aware that spring tide poses a danger to the sea going public around the coast and extreme caution is advised.

The NSRI urge boaters and paddlers to load the free NSRI RSA SafeTrx cellphone app onto their cellphones and use it when launching to go to sea.

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