All speculation aside, I had a near-deatg experience with a rip tide over in Jacksonville a number of years back, that ain’t no joke.
“I had a near death experience with a rip tide over in Jacksonville”
I’m from Jacksonville. I had to pull my kid sisters friend out of a rip tide when I was about 14. That was one scary experience. But we were all taught from an early age how to spot and avoid rip tides and how to swim parallel to the beach until we swam out of one.