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re: Have you ever been caught in a rip tide?
Posted on 10/10/19 at 9:02 am to SippyCup
Posted on 10/10/19 at 9:02 am to SippyCup
Yep, it’s not fun, escape plan works perfect. I learned to float in salt water pretty young. Was a necessary skill for beach scuba too. Just don’t panic and float till you can go parallel.
Jeez, good on you teaching them early and them doing it under pressure.
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Since the time my kids began swimming, if I saw a rip current, I bring them out on paddle board to teach them how to not panic and get out. I truly believe if I had not taught them to be calm and float on their backs, we would have drowned.
TLDNR: teach your kids how to get out
Jeez, good on you teaching them early and them doing it under pressure.
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Posted on 10/10/19 at 9:05 am to Dam Guide
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Jeez, good on you teaching them early and them doing it under pressure.
I took a lot of shite from the wife for doing it, but she definitely was thankful (she will never admit it) the day we actually needed those skills.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 9:29 am to RedRifle
Yes and yes. The time I was caught in one, I panicked and swam straight back in. I was exhausted by the time I got to the beach and came out of the water staggering.
Be smarter and just swim parallel. If I'd been in a stronger riptide, I might not have been able to fight through it.
Be smarter and just swim parallel. If I'd been in a stronger riptide, I might not have been able to fight through it.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 9:38 am to RedRifle
Yes, way back in high school at a graduation party and I'd never heard of rip tides.
Several of us were carried out and one of the chaperones saw what was happening and came out, rounded us up and lead us back to shore.
Several of us were carried out and one of the chaperones saw what was happening and came out, rounded us up and lead us back to shore.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 9:41 am to RedRifle
I snorkel nearly every time I go to the beach. I've been caught in rip currents more times than I can remember. It's not difficult to get out of them at all if you stay calm and follow the instructions. People run into trouble when they panic and try swimming against the current. Strong rips will wear you out if you try to fight against them.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 9:49 am to RedRifle
Yes. Perhaps me being a shitty swimmer saved my life because I couldn't swin against it well. I actually gave up for dead and started sinking but something inside me fought back amd I made it to shore.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 9:57 am to RedRifle
Growing up in Hawaii, I got caught in a few rip currents. We called it "undertow" even though it didn't pull you under. We were pretty good about riding it out, and as we got a little older, we would have surfboards with us.
Behind our house was a beach with no swimming. It had terrible rip tides. The beach had lava formations and the waves coming in between two of the lava formations would create rip tides.
South Padre Island is a great beach for kids. There are solid sandbars that block rip currents. It also means that if a big wave sweeps a kid away, they won't go far because the water becomes shallow again at the sandbar.
Behind our house was a beach with no swimming. It had terrible rip tides. The beach had lava formations and the waves coming in between two of the lava formations would create rip tides.
South Padre Island is a great beach for kids. There are solid sandbars that block rip currents. It also means that if a big wave sweeps a kid away, they won't go far because the water becomes shallow again at the sandbar.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 9:58 am to RedRifle
Yes, not a strong one though.
It doesn’t pull you under, just out, so if you can either swim sideways or float until it stops pulling you’ll be ok
It doesn’t pull you under, just out, so if you can either swim sideways or float until it stops pulling you’ll be ok
Posted on 10/10/19 at 10:01 am to RedRifle
Not in the slightest. Rip tides are a conspiracy created by the North to destroy the South’s beach tourism industry.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 11:05 am to Tigahhs97
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I started praying and out of no where the boat came. Gods real.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 11:20 am to RedRifle
Yep, though not in an ocean.
Also yes the instructions work. You will tire yourself the heck out fighting it, so you just kind of go parallel against it until you feel the "tug" go away.
Also yes the instructions work. You will tire yourself the heck out fighting it, so you just kind of go parallel against it until you feel the "tug" go away.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 11:25 am to RedRifle
Lady, running down to the riptide
Taken away to the dark side
I wanna be your left hand man
Taken away to the dark side
I wanna be your left hand man
Posted on 10/10/19 at 11:37 am to jaysuschrise
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jaysuschrise
Ooh we got a witty one here.
Posted on 10/10/19 at 11:44 am to RedRifle
Yea it works. Used to go to the beach a ton and it has happened a few times. First time I had panicked not knowing what it was but luckily had two friends yelling "swim sideways swim sideways" and once I calmed down after a few seconds I did and got out of it.
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