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Associate Professor of Geosciences Zoran Kilibarda, Ph.D., chair of the Indiana University Northwest Department of Geosciences, is a featured expert in a Chicago Public Radio piece, “Swim At Your Own Risk,” that aired today about the deadly rip currents that apparently led to the deaths of two young swimmers on Indiana’s Lake Michigan beaches earlier this summer.
One of Kilibarda’s students, Michael Menchaca, is also quoted in the broadcast, which was produced and narrated by local CPR correspondent Michael Puente.
In the piece, Kilibarda explains how sand that erodes from beaches in Chicago builds up along the Indiana shoreline, creating sandbars that may later collapse beneath the onslaught of high waves. When these sandbars break apart, he tells Puente, they create a strong current of water that flows through the narrow gaps the collapsed sandbars leave behind.
Also, Menchaca tells Puente that he nearly succumbed to a rip current in Mexico, and that his experience there has made him more wary of water conditions in Lake Michigan.
For a complete transcript of the Chicago Public Radio story, or to hear the audio presentation, visit the Web at http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=28138.
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