Well, they're not moms but imagine what the father and son have gone through. That's even tougher.
Treacherous out there. Never went into the water at Ocean Beach. The strong current coming in and out of the Golden Gate pushes surfers sitting on their surfboards miles north or south depending on the tide. Plus it’s freezing.
This is tragic!
I know how it happens. I was standing on a beach in Hawaii looking at a small waves lap up on the sand. All of a sudden the water sucked back into a huge wave. I turned and ran but it caught me at about hip deep before I could get away. The suction of the water was unbelievable. I was lucky these people were not.
yuck I hate the Pacific, wrongly named
If you get caught in a rip, swim to the side and out of it, then back. IMO, a strong sidestroke is one that affords visibility and works well enough. Rip currents have been used by surfers to get out and around the good waves easier. ;-) If you get caught in an undertow, swim to the bottom and use it for a platform to jump upward and out of the undertow.
A rip current, BTW, involves two currents moving toward each other from opposite directions along the shore, meeting and jetting more or less straight out from the beach.
What kind of idiot wrote this sentence? This is what passes for "journalism." They're taught cognitive dissonance techniques specifically to leave the reader disoriented. It's pathetic, and it's insidious.
For the record, the sentence should have ended contextually, such as "who was carried out to sea." Because he sure as hell no longer lives in the East Bay. But haha, this way the "writer," Christie Smith, could make a pun on words and places about a dead kid living in a "Bay" while talking about the moment of his death.
Really, if you just contemplate this sentence a little, you realize how utterly perverted and disgusting the mind of Ms. Smith really is. And oh, lemme take a wild guess, she's a black pantsuited, wide collared liberal with horsey plastic neckalce jewlery, pointy-toed shoes and a huge mans watch. Oh yeah - and a white iPhone. What a surprise.