A recreational water area management system for managing a recreational water area, comprising: a group of autonomous vehicles which are unmanned aerial vehicles, each autonomous vehicle comprising a sensor module (514, 600) for generating information about the environment around the autonomous vehicle, the sensor module (514, 600) comprising a camera system for generating images of a location in the recreational water area; and a water area manager configured to receive information about the recreational water area from the group of autonomous vehicles, analyze the information to identify an event, and coordinate the group of autonomous vehicles to perform a mission in the recreational water area based on the event, the mission being selected from one of a rescue mission and a warning mission, wherein the water area manager is configured to run a simulation to identify a potential condition in the recreational water area that requires at least one of the rescue mission and the warning mission, wherein the simulation is used to identify conditions comprising current conditions and predicted conditions on the basis of the images of the sensor module (514, 600) and to generate the event, wherein the simulation is used to predict a rip current, wherein the water area manager is configured to identify dark areas in the images and to detect potential rip currents in sections (1602, 1604) of the recreational water area before the rip currents are fully formed on the basis of the identified dark areas, wherein each of the autonomous vehicles comprises a rescue module (514, 700) which is configured to deploy at least one of a buoyancy device and a tracking buoy at the location in the rescue mission for evacuating individuals from the sections (1602, 1604) of the recreational water area in which the rip currents are detected, and a warning module (521, 800) which is configured to provide warnings for individuals in the sections (1602, 1604) of the recreational water area in the warning mission. a group of autonomous vehicles which are unmanned aerial vehicles, each autonomous vehicle comprising a sensor module (514, 600) for generating information about the environment around the autonomous vehicle, the sensor module (514, 600) comprising a camera system for generating images of a location in the recreational water area; and a water area manager configured to receive information about the recreational water area from the group of autonomous vehicles, analyze the information to identify an event, and coordinate the group of autonomous vehicles to perform a mission in the recreational water area based on the event, the mission being selected from one of a rescue mission and a warning mission, wherein the water area manager is configured to run a simulation to identify a potential condition in the recreational water area that requires at least one of the rescue mission and the warning mission, wherein the simulation is used to identify conditions comprising current conditions and predicted conditions on the basis of the images of the sensor module (514, 600) and to generate the event, wherein the simulation is used to predict a rip current, wherein the water area manager is configured to identify dark areas in the images and to detect potential rip currents in sections (1602, 1604) of the recreational water area before the rip currents are fully formed on the basis of the identified dark areas, wherein each of the autonomous vehicles comprises a rescue module (514, 700) which is configured to deploy at least one of a buoyancy device and a tracking buoy at the location in the rescue mission for evacuating individuals from the sections (1602, 1604) of the recreational water area in which the rip currents are detected, and a warning module (521, 800) which is configured to provide warnings for individuals in the sections (1602, 1604) of the recreational water area in the warning mission. a rescue module (514, 700) which is configured to deploy at least one of a buoyancy device and a tracking buoy at the location in the rescue mission for evacuating individuals from the sections (1602, 1604) of the recreational water area in which the rip currents are detected, and a warning module (521, 800) which is configured to provide warnings for individuals in the sections (1602, 1604) of the recreational water area in the warning mission.