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re: Three young fathers drown in rip tide at Panama City Beach
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:29 pm to BrianFlanagan
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:29 pm to BrianFlanagan
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Can someone explain to me like I’m dumb what a rip current truly is?
Add in nighttime and an inexperienced swimmer already deep for disaster. It’s not the actual rip tide that kills people, it’s the person not knowing better and tiring themselves out fighting it
This post was edited on 6/22/24 at 10:32 pm
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Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:30 pm to Obtuse1
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Those that can't swim are rarely the issue, it is those that overestimate their prowess in the water that usually are the ones that get in trouble.
This is much better than your first go at this idea.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:31 pm to udtiger
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The flags come down when the lifeguards leave (which would have been 6 PM).
Never been to PCB, have ya?
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:39 pm to cbree88
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One of these is very different than the others.
It checks out though since this happened in Alabama
Thank you for taking care of this
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:50 pm to StringedInstruments
Won’t ever see my arse in the ocean when it’s dark.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:55 pm to High C
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quote:a false echo
What is this shite?
He's posting using google translate
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:58 pm to dgnx6
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Won’t ever see my arse in the ocean when it’s dark.
One of the dumbest things I’ve ever done in my life was swim in the ocean at night. Was at a friends wedding south of Cancun and we got drunk one night and a few of us got brave and swam out to a rock mound of some sort. The water had been rough for two days and it was stupid of us. And I was naked. LOL.
My kids roll their eyes and are sick of my talks about the flags and rip currents when we go to the beach. Oh well. They know the dangers and I still watch them even though they are adults now.
This post was edited on 6/22/24 at 11:03 pm
Posted on 6/22/24 at 10:59 pm to StringedInstruments
Horrible.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:01 pm to BrianFlanagan
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Can someone explain to me like I’m dumb what a rip current truly is? I was a lifeguard every year in high school (long time ago at this point lol) but still consider myself a strong swimmer. I don’t understand how thigh/waist level water can pull me out and make me panic. I’ll hang up and listen.
A rip current is strongest the closer to the sand. It can pull you out so fast by your ankles and knock you off your feet. Many start panicking as they see how far away from shore they’re getting. Then they go full panic mode swimming faster against the current toward the shore and drowning from exhaustion.
This post was edited on 6/22/24 at 11:15 pm
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:12 pm to SirWinston
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I got caught in one in Hawaii. Luckily some sort of instincts or memories from childhood swim lessons kicked in and I did float it out, but I was honestly starting to panic a good bit. It was a terrible feeling. Sad for these fellows.
Same but it happened multiple times for me & I still get that heart pounding out of your chest fear but then my instinct kicks in to calm down and assess the easiest way to get out of it. Sometimes I just float it out and ride the waves back in.
To be honest, my fear isn’t getting back to shore. It’s my mind telling me that a shark will mistake me for his meal.
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:40 pm to SwampGar
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it just because people freak out and don't know to not try to fight it? To let it take you out, swim parallel and then come back in.
I would imagine that they weren't good swimmers anyway. So relaxing and riding it out is not what a bad swimmer does
Posted on 6/22/24 at 11:42 pm to LSUAngelHere1
Many years back at Destin area with extended family and had read Rips had been bad, so I was giving a quick class to everyone…grabbed a float, just to help visualize, and waited for one and let it take me out and around. I think it made a good impact 
Posted on 6/23/24 at 1:21 am to StringedInstruments
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Running out to chest deep water at 8pm in the gulf is a decision I don’t think I’d ever make.
There’s still daylight and you’re at the beach. Doesn’t seem so crazy to go into the water. “Chest high water” is like four feet.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 1:37 am to biglego
I've swam the outer banks of NC since I was a kid. The outer banks are known to have some of the worst rip tides but I have never felt that I couldn't get out of one.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 3:48 am to biglego
We spend at least one day a week on the beach, on the Gulf. Getting in the water isn't usually a thing. But, knowing how to "ride out" a rip tide, not panic, be aware & stay calm, are clearly lifesaving measures.
Very sad for these families. Going on vacation and burying 3 men.
Very sad for these families. Going on vacation and burying 3 men.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 5:10 am to S
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Happened to me. I was 17 and very drunk. Fortunately my friends brother was an ex marine and coached me up and eventually reached out and pulled me out. But for a few moments i was shitting it. Definitely sobered up quickly.
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“Fortunately”
I got caught in one whilst snorkeling off Barbados when I was about 45 years old. It took a decent amount of self-restraint on my part to not panic.
Mrs Füt (no pics) was about halfway closer to shore and never was in it, she is, to this day, oblivious to what had happened to me.
I’d never hear the end of it.
tl/dr: Nature: you a muthafricka!
Posted on 6/23/24 at 5:13 am to StringedInstruments
This is going to complicate splitting the Air BnB bill evenly.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 5:47 am to Lester Earl
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Also have never seen someone go chest deep in the dark either
I hear these stories of drowning in a rip situation and think of 17 year old me. Eight of us just like these guys, drunk and excited on our senior trip. We ran to the beach just like them.
I had never been to a beach. We were out neck-deep at night. Hell we spent the whole time out too far. It was 1986 so I'm not sure there were flags. We were lucky.
Over the course of my life I have been to the Redneck Riviera many times. I now only go in far enough to pee.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 6:54 am to 75503Tiger
Everyone should make sure their kids know how to float well. That shite will save your life. Preach to them that floating is your lifeline if you get in trouble in the water. Swimming will get you killed, floating will save your life.
Posted on 6/23/24 at 7:14 am to concrete_tiger
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Never been to PCB, have ya?
Admittedly, I have not. However, beach patrols in Walton County and Oklasoosa County remove their flags when they leave for the evening.
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