Drowning accidents due to a reef current and safety of marine activity in a coral reef

• Main Authors: Nishi, Ryuichiro, De Leon, Mario P., Murai, Mitsuryo, Takaesu, Tsuyoshi, Koga, Yukio
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Rip currents—Japan; Drowning—Japan; Waves; Coral reefs and islands—Japan; Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6201
• Institution: De La Salle University

A number of tourists would frequently visit coastal areas characterized by coral reef and carbonate beach in tropical and subtropical islands such as in Okinawa, Kagoshima and even in Tokyo, Japan. In Okinawa Prefecture for instance, nearly 6 million people visited as of last year and is projected t...