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re: Atlanta teen dies a hero trying to save 4 children from drowning in Florida waters....
Posted on 4/12/23 at 6:02 pm to Trauma14
Posted on 4/12/23 at 6:02 pm to Trauma14
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Hell, I do and am still at great risk of panicking and doing the wrong thing too. I pray I'm never in a situation to experience one or have to make the decision to go into one to rescue someone.
Brother and I would swim out to sandbars often and got caught in a few rip currents by mistake and just rode it out then swam out sideways then onto the sandbar. shite is scary at first but then you remember what dad told you half a dozen times or more.
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Posted on 4/12/23 at 6:46 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
very sad, sounds like he was a great kid, he and the man who tried to save him were very brave, the ocean is intimidating if you aren't near it regularly
and I always remember Joe Delaney when i read a story like this because he wasn't a good swimmer and I remember how terrified of water I was before I learned to swim.
The 40th anniversary of that will be this June 29th, looked it up. Time flies.
and I always remember Joe Delaney when i read a story like this because he wasn't a good swimmer and I remember how terrified of water I was before I learned to swim.
The 40th anniversary of that will be this June 29th, looked it up. Time flies.
Posted on 4/12/23 at 7:28 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
Let’s build a statue of this young man.
Posted on 4/12/23 at 7:54 pm to bird35
Just a HORRIBLE story ! Sadder is the fact that it is soooo often repeated i.e. parents teach your children to just not swim but swim WELL, educate them as to the dangers of open ocean wading/swimming...swimming in a pool is NOT the same !
Posted on 4/12/23 at 7:55 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
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A family friend named Charles “Chuck” Johnson II went in the water to help Bryce but was also pulled under. Both of them drowned.
Why isn’t this guy also being called a hero?
What an absolutely brutal story. I got rescued out of a current as a kid in Florida by my Aunt. Learned how to swim with it and sideways after that and have been caught in a few more. You can end up in trouble in the gulf quickly without realizing it.
This post was edited on 4/12/23 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 4/12/23 at 8:02 pm to SteelerBravesDawg
The entire country should know this young man's name, but it's a shame that most won't. God bless him.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:29 am to SteelerBravesDawg
The good ones always die young.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:45 am to USMCguy121
Unfortunately this happens at least once or twice a year, and inexperienced people continue to wade out in red-flag conditions. I've got kids in college in the Pensacola area and I'm constantly worried any time I hear they're going to the beach!
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:46 am to SteelerBravesDawg
Man that is awful. It sounds like the kids the two boys went in after survived? I guess they eventually got out of the current.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:48 am to SteelerBravesDawg
That kid is a hero. He is the kind of person who should be lifted up and praised, not worthless shitbags like St. Floyd of Fentanyl.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:50 am to SteelerBravesDawg
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His reward was great in Heaven
I get what you are trying to say but doing good deeds does not get you into heaven.
He was brave and courageous. Prayers for his family.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:55 am to Richard Grayson
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What an absolutely brutal story. I got rescued out of a current as a kid in Florida by my Aunt. Learned how to swim with it and sideways after that and have been caught in a few more. You can end up in trouble in the gulf quickly without realizing it.
But that's a riptide, not an undertow though, right?
Riptides suck you out into the ocean, and you have to swim parallel to the shore to get out of it, or just tread water until it's done with you, and then swim in. Most people die tiring themselves out trying to fight it.
Undertows literally suck you under the water, right? So as waves are forming on top of the water, the water underneath is sucking back outward to compensate, and can suck you under. I'm not sure there is a proper technique to "beat" an undertow outside of just holding your breath until you resurface, which if it catches you off guard, I imagine is the part that kills you and you drown.
I honestly don't know...am I wrong in my understanding of those two things?
The power of water is absolutely terrifying sometimes.
This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 10:20 am
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:57 am to CocomoLSU
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Riptides suck you out into the ocean, and you have to swim perpendicular to the shore to get out of it
Parallel to the shore
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:59 am to SteelerBravesDawg
A true hero. May he know how much he is appreciated in heaven.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:03 am to Cajun75
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Unfortunately this happens at least once or twice a year, and inexperienced people continue to wade out in red-flag conditions. I've got kids in college in the Pensacola area and I'm constantly worried any time I hear they're going to the beach!
I haven't been to South Padre Island in a long time, but it was a great beach for kids to swim. The water would get to knee deep, then there would be a shallow sandbar. Go off that sandbar, and the water would get waist deep but you'd hit another sandbar if you went further out. The undulating sand really curbed rip tide action.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:20 am to MoarKilometers
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Parallel to the shore
Oops, I was gonna type perpendicular to the current/parallel to the shore. I fixed it, thanks.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:21 am to SteelerBravesDawg
Riptide got him. The water stacks between a sandbar and the beach. The sandbar breaches and the water flows seaward.
Been through a bunch of them while surf fishing Timbalier Island in our youth. We were lucky enough to be taught to “go with the flow “. Then swim back. With your rod,reel and fish !
RIP. This tragedy repeats itself each year.
Been through a bunch of them while surf fishing Timbalier Island in our youth. We were lucky enough to be taught to “go with the flow “. Then swim back. With your rod,reel and fish !
RIP. This tragedy repeats itself each year.
This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 10:23 am
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:25 am to CocomoLSU
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Undertows literally suck you under the water, right?
Yep. I got caught in an undertow in Destin on year when the waves were horrible. I just let it take me and somehow I ended back up above the water. Very scary. I only went waist deep after that.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:27 am to rockchlkjayhku11
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that's so fricked up and sad. honestly can't say i would ever have the courage or humanity to attempt something like that
I expect many will claim that they would do the same but no one knows until their in the situation. This young mans actions speak louder than words. A true hero.
Posted on 4/13/23 at 10:29 am to CocomoLSU
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Undertows literally suck you under the water, right?
No. An undertow refers to current running opposite of the surface flow.
Nothing pulls you under. You go under from exhaustion and breathing in water.
This post was edited on 4/13/23 at 10:34 am
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