Rising oceans makes it a much more dangerous situation.
my father always said swim in the pool not in the ocean and if you do not deeper than waist high
The beaches in FL have rip tide warnings posted when it’s a danger.
Also, you can tell my looking at the water if you learn what to look for.
smart kid. Too bad the parents weren’t as savvy about swimming in the ocean.
There is no hope for people who reach middle age and don’t know how to handle a rip current. How’d they miss the ten million briefings? Those poor kids…
Deadliest thing about water is panic. Panic will kill you.
I’m a certified diver, and large sailboat owner of many years and I have been in some very adverse conditions, but I did not panic. Always have a plan.
Poor children. Prayers for them. I hope this was a step situation and they have a living parent.⅘
Bad combo: PA and FL.
I think I got caught in a rip tide once, but it pulled me toward shore. Was it a rip tide?
We used to live on the east coast, and rip tides were no joke- we heard fairly often of folks caught in them, some survived, some didn’t. We were told that if it ever happened to swin parallel to the rip current, not agaisnt it because it would tire you out quick if you tried to get back to the spot that you got stuck in the current from.
So, this was a couple who each had their own children from previous marriages or relationships.
Hope the kids' other parents are alive and well and able to take care of them.
May God hold them close, very sad.
Took a swimming course in physical education many years ago and we were taught “drown proofing”, a survival technique supposedly developed by a pilot shot down in the Pacific during WW2. System involves no swimming to tire you out, simply bobbing up and down. Basically you take a deep breath, allow your body to sink, bend over so that your upper body is horizontal to the water surface, rise, take a deep breath and repeat. The air in your lungs provides ballast needed to rise. We were required to do this for an entire class, demonstrating the effectiveness of the system. Don’t know if anyone teaches this anymore but think it should be mandatory for beginning swimmers.
I am so sorry to hear this.
I grew up in a beach city in Southern California - the beaches constantly had rip tides - we were taught as kids to swim parallel (everyone learned how to swim as a young kid and I had to pass a swim test to graduate high school, it was mandated back in the good old days) - to the shoreline until the rip current ends.
So sad
This happened maybe 5 miles south of me. There are riptide warning, and every day this week and red flags are out.
A friend of mine, since it was a Strawberry Moon, decided to go swimming last night in the ocean despite the flags. She did it twice. She said red flags are her favorite.
This is local to me. I am very sorry for their loss. My daughter and I were driving up A1A when I noticed the red flags were out that day. Dangerous conditions mean just that. People need to take heed of that or tragedy is a real possibility.
Hutchinson Island is not the name of a town. It is the barrier island off the coast of Martin and St. Lucie Counties.
This happened in Stuart, Florida.
Let it take you out to sea?? No. I’ve never heard that. Swim parallel to the shore until you get out of it.