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Hurricane Bertha weakened to a tropic storm Monday but waves were still high at Atlantic City, N.J., and elsewhere, and the danger of rip currents, which can pull swimmers near shore out to sea, was considered high, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

Bertha-driven ocean currents threatened swimmers last weekend along the Jersey Shore where beach patrols made hundreds of rescues, the newspaper said. In Atlantic City, 57 rescues were made Saturday and Sunday because of rip currents, officials said.

A 51-year-old swimmer died Saturday off Atlantic City while being rescued by lifeguards after he was caught in a heavy rip current. And 35 miles south in Wildwood, N.J., three men were caught in a rip current that claimed the life of one of them, while a second swimmer remained missing Tuesday and was presumed drowned. A third was hospitalized, the Inquirer said.

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