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Slidell man drowns trying to save fiancée off Florida coast
Posted on 5/9/19 at 1:59 pm
Posted on 5/9/19 at 1:59 pm
This one hits home hard. The victim was a fellow Folgers coworker and his Fiancee was the plant nurse at one time. Great guy who would do anything he could to help anyone. He will be missed.
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/slidell-man-drowns-trying-to-save-fiancee-off-florida-coast/289-84a65568-ff44-4fb1-9dc2-2ad9efd7ea6f
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/slidell-man-drowns-trying-to-save-fiancee-off-florida-coast/289-84a65568-ff44-4fb1-9dc2-2ad9efd7ea6f
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Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:00 pm to cdaniel76
He saved her according to the article, that’s impressive and brave.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:02 pm to cdaniel76
man thats terrible
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:08 pm to cdaniel76
How did he manage to save her but then drown?
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:11 pm to Cosmo
I can see it. I had a save at a neighborhood pool ages ago and I was exhausted for the rest of the day with maybe 30 seconds of "save". Adrenaline dump and the she exhaustion of the fight can do that.
Plus whoever is getting saved isn't acting rationally and she could have forced him underwater.
Plus whoever is getting saved isn't acting rationally and she could have forced him underwater.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:14 pm to cdaniel76
Riptides scare the shite out of me at the beach. What a terrible story.
Side note:
Side note:
quote:first time I’ve ever seen the word cousin used three consecutive times in a sentence.
“That’s the kind of person he was,” said Joseph Cousin, Cousin’s cousin.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:15 pm to cdaniel76
Damn man sorry to hear that. I witnessed a very similar thing about 10 years ago at Grand Isle Beach.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:21 pm to CHEDBALLZ
The trouble with riptides is people panic and exert all their energy going against it rather than letting it carry them out and then swimming perpendicular back to shore.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:21 pm to cdaniel76
Rip currents are no joke. Don't try to outswim that shite back to shore. Swim parallel to shore until you're out of the rip.
RIP baw.
RIP baw.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:21 pm to cdaniel76
Rip tide's are no joke...fricking insane.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:26 pm to Cosmo
quote:
How did he manage to save her but then drown?
2 guys I went to grade school with watched their dad drown in Destin while he was saving their babysitter from drowning. He saved the babysitter, he died. I think this happens to the rescuer more than we realize
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:43 pm to jchamil
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think this happens to the rescuer more than we realize
Makes logical sense. Rescuer exerting all their energy into saving someone only to be pulled in/under by the current and no longer has the energy to save him/herself.
Just tragic all the way around...
I've lost a spouse but to a disease and I knew it was coming. I can't imaging going on a family vacation with someone and not coming home with them.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:50 pm to cdaniel76
Yeah but where do they put the person who is saved where they are out of danger, and still manage to be caught in the rip? I think that’s what we’re trying to figure out here
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:51 pm to cdaniel76
Had a scare years ago in rip tide in Gulf Shores. I was trying to help a family member who got our too far to touch and then almost fricked up myself. If I had not been in great shape at the time and had not had a small boogie board to help out we would not have made it. Family member still was in hospital for weeks due to inhaling sea water.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:55 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:57 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
quote:
Yeah but where do they put the person who is saved where they are out of danger, and still manage to be caught in the rip? I think that’s what we’re trying to figure out here
Maybe passed them off to someone else on a raft/inflatable or the rescuer had one inflatable and gave it to the person drowning?
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:59 pm to cdaniel76
I hate to see this happen to anyone, and I am not trying to be insensitive. But I live in Florida and there are flags or lighted signs that warn people of riptides. People's mentality is, "I paid money to come here on vacation and nobody is going to tell me I can't swim in the ocean". So they do, and then they drown in a rip current. It happens a lot.
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:59 pm to jchamil
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the rescuer had one inflatable and gave it to the person drowning?
This is the only one I could see without knowing what happened. Anything else and it seems like the person would be able to grab on/be grabbed
Posted on 5/9/19 at 2:59 pm to HermanBoone
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first time I’ve ever seen the word cousin used three consecutive times in a sentence.
As a last name, it's pronounced "Coozan" so... "Joseph Coozan, Coozan's cousin".
Posted on 5/9/19 at 3:07 pm to ChenierauTigre
quote:
I hate to see this happen to anyone, and I am not trying to be insensitive. But I live in Florida and there are flags or lighted signs that warn people of riptides. People's mentality is, "I paid money to come here on vacation and nobody is going to tell me I can't swim in the ocean". So they do, and then they drown in a rip current. It happens a lot.
To be fair, the article said it was a yellow flag day. I used to live in FL too, and I would still get in the water on a yellow flag day
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