I got caught in one once. If I didn’t have a small flotation device, I would have drowned. I just had to let the current carry me perpendicular to the shoreline until I found a break I could swim back. You can’t fight through riptides. no way.
You can’t fight through riptides. no way.
You can swim out of them if you don’t panic. They don’t go on forever, and are limited in their width, so swimming parallel to the beach is the recommended escape. And just a by the way, surfers love rips because it gets them back out in the breaks with minimal effort.
wow- glad ya made it out- scary stuff- we grew up on ocean so we knew what to try if we got caught- thankfully never had to deal with it-