BREVARD COUNTY, Fla — Experts said warmer temperatures and high rip currents are contributing to more rescues along Central Florida coasts.

​Heather Dortch and her 13-year-old son Dylan are visiting from the Atlanta area.

On their last day before heading home, they are taking advantage of the wonderful Indialantic beach weather. But she’s aware of the high rip current risk that comes with it.

“We always pay attention to the flags, and what they say, and we heed those warnings,” Dortch tells us. She’s sad about the two people who drowned here Sunday.

A 47-year-old man was pulled from the water at the Ocean Avenue access in Melbourne Beach, but didn’t make it.

A little more than a mile north, Indialantic police say lifeguards were just responding to the report of another man floating two hundred yards out.

Rescuers performed CPR, but he died at the hospital. Dortch says the increased risks make her even more observant as her son surfs.

“Watch like a hawk, and if I saw him in distress you’d see me jogging into that water to help out, trust me,” Dortch says. Officials suspect strong rip currents are to blame in both drownings.

If you are caught in a current, don’t fight it. Swim out of it, then to shore.

If you can’t escape, float or tread water and call or wave if you need help.

Both the drownings happened in areas unguarded by lifeguards this time of year. Officials urge everyone to always swim in lifeguard protected areas of the beach.