Posted on 07/11/2017 2:09:05 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The Spring of 77’ my Captain invited me to go to PCB with his family. We were on the beach, I was close to shore and apparently the rip tide took him out. He yelled out at me and he was neck deep and going away from the beach. I was in really good shape back then so I swam out to him and by then he was blown. I grabbed him by the swimsuit and swam with him parallel to the beach until I could no longer feel the current drag me away from shore. We swam back to the beach and we were a mile down the beach or better, crawled up on the beach, and laid there for a half hour or better. I had learned about swift water from swimming in the Red River after rainstorms and to swim diagonally and with the current. Sadly,the next weekend the rip tides took fourteen kids from Tennessee that went into the water oblivious to the danger.
That happened on Cape Cod years ago-——they couldn’t save everyone,though.
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Your captain is lucky you were there. I did a search on Google and it looks like PCB has had a lot of drownings over the years and they’ve finally hired lifeguards.
Wow. That must've taken some guts. From what I understand the water at Cape Cod is supposed to be ice cold.
The cockpit looks weird like the pilot is hiding under a blanket...what’s with that?
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