Marseillan Plage Code Red Rip Currents. Red Flag, no swimming, dangerous rip tides or currents. Summer 2014. When the French say do not swim, they mean it. Police, life guards the works. And for good reason, it was reported two people died this day, on these very beaches. “a bright red flag, shaped as an isosceles triangle (base: 1.50 m; height : 2.25 m); this signal hoisted on the top of the mast meaning “bathing forbidden” See: http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr~beach.html “Marseillan Plage Code Red Rip Currents.