Dead swimmers washing up on beaches this Labor Day weekend
 

Sadly so many young swimmers, even in excellent shape, venture into the ocean and succumb to rip currents. These occur often on the Eastern Seaboard. NY, NJ, DE, NC seeing deaths.

This Labor Day we are up to at least 4 deaths of people who never learned how to escape rip currents. It's so easy yet people panic and swim back straight into the currents, exhausting themselves.

To escape you face parallel to the beach and swim straight, ignoring if you are being pushed out further from the shore. At some point soon, you will be outside the rip currents and can easily and safely ride the waves back to shore.

Another large group of people had to be rescued as well.

Please learn how to escape rip currents before you venture into the ocean.

Horrible and tragic way for a vacation and holiday to end. :(

I will walk into the ocean up to like my knees or so, okay somewhat an exaggeration but I don't F w/ the ocean much.

All you have to worry about in Midwestern Lakes is fat chicks and brain eating amoebas

Many times it happens after a storm. You have wave after wave breaking in rapid succession. Then the rip current will form in an area and people quickly get dragged away from shore and panic. It can be overwhelming when wave after wave drags you under.

They were identified by 2 feet from the shore

Better than dead hookers showing up in Phoenix

You have a real sickness and obsession.

Seek help. :rolleyes:

I knew a guy who died to one, you don't want to **** with that.

If you ever do, try to swim at an angle out of it instead of panic, it's probably you're only chance.

I used to swim way out into the ocean when I was like 20, no fear. Now there is no way I would do that again.

Dried swimmers on the ass crack of hookers. Gotta learn to swim parallel to the coke line

More like water logged and wrinkled. ;)

I got caught in a rip current in Malibu when I was 11. It was like a hole opened in the ocean and I fell into it. The waves were coming from all four directions. Luckily I was on a Boogie board, it kept me above the surface. The all of a sudden a red lifeguard float bumps me in the arm, there was a lifeguard saving me. I held that float and he towed me to a lifeguard boat a few yards away. They took us down shore a few hundred yards and he towed me in.

It’s one of the scariest things that happened to me as a kid. No Boogie board and I don’t think I’d be here.

Same/same?

I almost drowned in Current River when I was 14 or so, not my first rodeo champ, I've been trying to drown for years.

every year we have some kid or teenager die caught in a rip current. There is no reason to die. The instructions above our correct but most say let it carry you out, don’t fight it. Once you feel the current lightening up a bit, that’s when you start swimming Latrell to the beach until you don’t feel the current.

I’ve floated the Current, Niangua, and Merrimack. The Current seems to line up to its name. I’ve both seen and heard about a handful of scary moments on that river.