r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/[deleted] • Jun 01 '23
Swimming in rough water
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u/JackalandBadger Jun 01 '23
I see someone jump in that shit and I'll just assume it's a suicide attempt and respect it.
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u/LetsGetsThisPartyOn Jun 02 '23
Yup! Your done. That kid has zero clue how close to being dead he was. He just gave up and wasn’t even trying to get out of that water.
The colour, without the waves going 7 directions, would make me wary of what’s in that water.
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u/williamshatnersbeast Jun 02 '23
No no. At the end I’m pretty sure he realises how close he came…
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u/phenompbg Jun 02 '23
He didn't give up, he was just completely exhausted. Look at the end even he reaches the wall.
Sea isn't your buddy. You respect that shit or you drown looking stupid.
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u/Daddiesbabaygirl Jun 02 '23
Yes!
Did you see the post recently about the 18 year old who was dared to jump off a party boat by a bunch of friends? 23:30 and he disappeared into the night. The search was called off after 3 days.
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u/Einaris Jun 02 '23
If the water surface looks like it forms square patterns near the shore, you get out and stay far away. Never mind when the waves are this fucking high. His life was saved that day. No question.
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u/LetsGetsThisPartyOn Jun 02 '23
Yeah. Just looking at the water gives me anxiety. All of those people are amazingly lucky they got him out of there. I had to speed to the end to make sure he lived before I could watch it properly.
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u/Theloneriddler Jun 01 '23
This used to happen loads when we lived in Hong Kong. Chinese mainlanders would come visit the beaches and jump off docks or pleasure boats but didn’t know how to swim.
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u/yMONSTERMUNCHy Jun 01 '23
Why would they jump into deep water if they didn’t know how to swim!?!
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u/Apprehensive_Ad3731 Jun 01 '23
People who don’t know how to swim also don’t know the dangers of swimming. Like someone who’s only ever dreamed of having a puppy coming face to face with a pit bull or someone who has only watched kitten videos getting themselves a bengal cause they look cool
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u/Theloneriddler Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 02 '23
Don’t realise it’s deep? Want to join in the fun? Lack of education? Common sense not learned if parents do everything for them and baby them all through growing up? No idea.
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u/Impossible-Error166 Jun 02 '23 edited Jun 02 '23
I really think common sense is more about experience then implied understanding. If you never been exposed to the ocean its very hard to respect the dangers.
To me its about inferring things from previous experience.
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u/FireLucid Jun 07 '23
By the time you get to adulthood you should have picked up that swimming is something you can't just 'do' and you need to learn. Also that you cannot breathe when you head is underwater. I don't get how you miss those things.
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u/Binary1998 Jun 02 '23
Believe it. when I was around 7 my family and a family friend went to the hotel pool. My brother and I jumped in and our friend that we didn't know doesn't know how to swim jumped in with us.
Seeing him struggling, without hesitation, I went down to push his feet up from the bottom and someone grabbed him.
Luckily everyone was safe. Afterwards we asked why he jumped if he didn't know how to swim, he said he thought it was shallow water. My brother and I were like wtf... LOL
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u/Whistlegrapes Jun 02 '23
Yeah I was in a pool and something similar happened. My little brother slid down a slide into the pool and didn’t know how to swim. It was a party so adults were all around but no one seemed to notice. He was splashing about so I went over to him and pushed him to the side wall
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u/JackalandBadger Jun 03 '23
My brother was probably in 3rd grade when we were swimming at our friends house. We all had swimming lessons and knew how to swim. Or so we thought. He stayed in the shallow end usually but decided to walk to the deep end. He was fully submerged when he realized he couldn't swim. Our friend's 8th grade brother just happened to see him and dove to the rescue. He said he didn't know why he did it. In all fairness he is a complete dipshit with turds for common sense and almost died doing dumb shit many times. He'll succeed one day, I'm sure of it.
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u/Duff5OOO Jun 02 '23
You just reminded me of high school swimming sports.
One of the kids, a recent immigrant to Australia, puts his name down for an event.
Event starts, he jumps in and immediately starts drowning.
Teacher has to jump in and save the kid. Turns out he had no idea how to swim and just figured it must be something everyone can do.
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u/HotdogGeorgia Jun 02 '23
When I was a kid, I went to the lake on a church outing, and my friend told me swimming was easy. All you had to do was jump in. That's how her dad taught her. I did and immediately started drowning. I was terrified of the water afterwards, and didn't learn to swim until I was in my 30s.
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u/DidiHD Jun 04 '23
Yeah in elementary school we webt swimming and I was the only one who didn't know how to swim (I didn't knew that). Never went swimming before that.
Everybody just jumped straight into the water and swam. Well, i followed and almost drowned lol
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u/ParadigmPDM Jun 02 '23
There's an Australian show called 'Bondi Rescue', which follows the day-to-day of the life guards, and it's pretty amazing how many people have no idea of the dangers of swimming in the ocean, especially if they don't know how to swim at all. It's bewildering to us Australians in particular because beach/swimming safety is drilled into us from a young age.
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u/LetsGetsThisPartyOn Jun 02 '23
Bondi is a very hectic beach too the way it gets currents and sand banks etc. it’s actually a terrible beach for swimming. Lol. Better going to beaches around the corner.
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u/i_am_here_again Jun 02 '23
This happened to us in a boat in Thailand. We went to go snorkeling and a group of 10+ Chinese tourists were all eager to go in. First two in the water could not swim at all (this is open ocean) and immediately got pulled back in. They went back in with life vests on, but like what did they expect to happen when they jumped off the boat? It was really odd how calm everyone was about the whole situation.
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u/gingerisla Jun 02 '23
I went to a snorkeling/diving tour in Vietnam last month and the guide asked if anyone was unable to swim. Everyone laughed except one Japanese tourist who raised his hand.
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u/Bojacketamine Jun 02 '23
If you look at some Bondi beach rescue episodes, it's like 50% asian people that are drowning
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u/Soft_Cranberry6313 Jun 01 '23
That’s the face of a kid that knows he almost just died, AND that he learned a lot of shit in 5mins.
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u/StevenStephen Jun 02 '23
And yet, even though some of the waves crashed up to the wall, he did not hang on to the railing with an iron grip. I half expected him to get washed right back out. I know he's exhausted, but I'd be gripping that thing with all my remaining strength.
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u/Lartemplar Jun 02 '23
As someone who almost died drowning. It. Is. Fucking Exhausting. He already used everything and was running on adrenaline and lactic-acid alone. He was possibly feeling sick from shock as well
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u/IonOtter Jun 02 '23
I was going to say the same thing.
I was fishing on the Intercoastal Waterway in Suffolk, VA, when I got skewered by a catfish spine in the palm of my hand. It didn't hurt that bad! But my body completely disagreed, and started shutting down.
I was .5 seconds from passing out, and I still have no idea how I managed to stay conscious. I hadn't told anyone where I was going, there was nobody around, and I was in an unstable position in the canoe. I was wearing a life jacket, but it wasn't the type that would self-right me.
Somehow, I managed to stay conscious, but THAT. WAS. IT.
I was DONE.
I was shivering, sweating, breathing shallow, barely able to move, and all I wanted to do was lie down. I managed to get the canoe to a dock, and I did not care one fucking bit that there were "private property" and "no tresspassing" signs all over it.
I laid down on that dock for the better part of 45 minutes before I could muster the strength to sit up. It was another 10 minutes before I had enough strength to climb the steps and walk back to the car. Another 10 minute rest after I got to the car, and drove to the dock to get my canoe. By then I had recovered half my strength.
There was no logical reason for that to happen. The catfish spine didn't get me that bad, and it wasn't envenomated.
But for some reason, my brain stem just decided it was going to piss on the third rail and send the rest of me out the fucking airlock.
So yeah. That feeling of 100% exhaustion? It's not fake, it's totally legit.
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u/earthlings_all Jun 02 '23
Your brain stem has interesting views. Glad you made it, that’s fucking scary.
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u/frankcastle01 Jun 02 '23
Glad you're still around to tell the tale! I can't even begin to imagine how scary that must have been..
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u/Boy-of-the-Forest Jun 02 '23
I can second this. While what I went through is nowhere near as bad as what you or this young man have experienced, I can say that hauling yourself out of a current like that is hellish. You don’t realize just how fucked you are until you’re watching the shoreline grow further away and have the warmth and strength of your body leeched out as you fight to make your way back. 0/10, would not recommend.
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u/earthlings_all Jun 02 '23
Looks ready to pass out. He’s exhausted. He almost died. Give him a break.
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u/Alternative-Ad-1602 Jun 01 '23
That is some dirty ass water
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u/TerribleIdea27 Jun 02 '23
Contrary to popular opinion, brown =/= dirty and clear =/= clean. Most of the color, especially for seawater comes from the sand that's mixed in the water. The rockier or deeper the area, the less sand and the more clear the water becomes. It has virtually nothing to do with how dirty it is, except if you're swimming right next to an industrial exhaust pipe. Areas with sand that has more iron tend to be more reddish
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u/Alternative-Ad-1602 Jun 02 '23
Oh, thanks for the heads up, let me try that again. That's some irony ass water
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Jun 02 '23
I was going to say, that looks like Galveston TX water, but looking at the people in the vid, must be the Philippines.
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u/Signal_Hedgehog_343 Jun 01 '23 edited Jun 02 '23
fuck, that kid without the shirt you could tell he thought for sure he was going to die the way he came out of it completely exhausted and just put his hands in his face
edit: added a comma after fuck so my post is understood more clearly
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u/CyclicRhetoric Jun 02 '23
Props to the fully clothed dude, he refused to let the topless guy give himself to the tide. It is strange to see so little effort be made when death laps at your heels and yet safety lies a few paces away. Where's the adrenaline and sense of urgency.
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u/Ajuvix Jun 02 '23
There's a saying, "exhaustion makes cowards of men". He was likely drained from that violent wet mosh pit.
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u/foxfecat12 Jun 02 '23
Some people just freeze up when they panic. And the shitty thing is, you never really know if you’re that type of person or not until you’re in one of those situations.
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u/phenompbg Jun 02 '23
He was completely exhausted.
Being thrown around by the currents and waves like that will empty your tank really really quickly.
Even more so if you don't know what to do or how to swim in that situation. The mere fact that they got into the water there in those conditions tells you they're clueless and didn't know shit. All three of them are lucky to be alive.
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u/Over-Analyzed Jun 01 '23
Swimming? That doesn’t look like swimming. It looks like drowning with style. 🤦🏻♂️. The amount of people who jump into moving water with no idea of how to swim is too damn high!
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u/kapootaPottay Jun 02 '23
No one! could swim against a rip tide w 3foot waves.
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u/Over-Analyzed Jun 02 '23
What implies that’s a rip current? The fact that someone was able to swim them back at all would mean that there isn’t a rip current. The existence of backwash is not evidence of a rip current. I agree though, that a rip current is nearly impossible to fight against. But there isn’t one here. Or at least not where they are at.
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u/Baandera Jun 02 '23
Swim back who? Did we see the same video? Buddy as a rope that he holds on till the very last second. Without the rope he’d be gone too.
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u/Over-Analyzed Jun 02 '23
He was making progress and the fact that he wasn’t 15ft out in the time it took for that rope to get to him means there wasn’t a rip current. Have you ever been in a rip current? Also it wasn’t as if the guy was a top swimmer either, swimming the fastest he could’ve. The fact that he was making progress while pulling someone means there wasn’t a rip current. It’s simply backwash that is keeping them from shore. I say this as someone who has personally encountered both along with a lifetime of ocean experience.
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u/rockstuffs Jun 02 '23
That water is going in all sorts of directions. I'd definitely lose that fight.
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u/trucorsair Jun 02 '23
You never know how hard it is to throw a rope until someone’s life depends on it
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u/Acrobatic_Wonder8996 Jun 02 '23
They're in front of a church named Nhà Thờ Đổ Nam Định in Vietnam, close-ish to Hanoi. It was built in 1943, and abandoned in 1996, due to the "invasion of the sea". It looks like it's next to a relatively popular swimming beach.
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u/aounfather Jun 02 '23
Really glad there were other people there to help. Undertows and riptides and just strong currents are legit terrifying and deadly.
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u/Illustrious_Risk3732 Jun 01 '23
WCGW it’s not like it is really bad that you can’t physically swim and it is dirty.
They could’ve got almost sucked in to the lake or Ocean and that would not be good.
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u/Baandera Jun 02 '23
If they’d know how to “properly” swim and stay afloat without wasting too much energy they’d be fine and more likely to survive than what they did at the beginning. Wastes too much energy and barely held on until the dude came.
If I’m ever getting caught in a riptide in Alanya, Türkiye again all I’ll do is let the riptide pull me out while I calmly try to swim out to the side. Strong enough to pull me out but not strong enough to keep me from swimming out if
Wouldn’t step a foot into waters like that in the video. Shits moving in every possible direction
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u/iamdarosa Jun 02 '23
Sorry but I laughed a little at the end where he just HAD to get some nice footage or the building.
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u/Singular_Crowbar Jun 02 '23
Tbh, every time a non confident swimmer goes into conditions like these and then immediately turns into a panicked screaming person demanding help from others it makes me fucking mad.
Especially considering most of these people end up drowning the person trying to save them as well
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u/LuckerHDD Jun 02 '23
Hopefully they will remenber this forever. If not then one day there may not be anyone to help them once their great stupidity gets them into a similar situation.
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u/lifestylz Jun 02 '23
Weren’t there three people in the water originally? Where the hell did the third person go? Did he…?
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u/MiddleFinger287 Jun 01 '23
Bro how tf did they end up all the way over there without having much of an idea of how to swim?
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u/Beneficial_Emu9299 Jun 01 '23
Current swept them out. They aren’t something you fuck with even if you’re a good swimmer.
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u/Bitter_Dingo516 Jun 02 '23
I wonder how someone looks at that choppy water and goes 'I should swim in that!'
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u/MullahBobby Jun 02 '23
I am a swimmer. I love swimming in the sea. I don't go to sea from June to August in my country. Because the condition of water is rough. And it pull easily toward sea, but it is very difficult to swim back to shore. I am swimmer and I don't dare with rough sea. Learn it.
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u/TTYY_20 Jun 02 '23
Yooooo can we talk a hot how beautiful where they are is though? 😍
Like yeah yeah, these goofs did a no-no. But yo! Those are LIEK ancient ruins 😱
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u/Reddragons89 Jun 04 '23
Looks like they're swimming in diarrhea. That alone would have kept me out of the water besides the rough current.
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u/Juggernuts777 Jun 03 '23
We don’t need to be swimming in the ocean. Even a lake is iffy. My goodness, just turn on your sprinkler in your yard and cower in fear like i do! To this day, I STILL haven’t drowned! But really this is terrifying to me, why do people do this? I dont like calm days at the beach let alone this insanity.
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u/Jumping_JoE_420 Jun 02 '23
Kid almost drowned because he'd rather have one hand plug his nose instead of trying to swim
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u/Vexen86 Jun 02 '23
He is lucky that people managed to save his ass, most of the case it will be a goner.
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u/Jazzlike-Principle67 Jun 02 '23
Unless you grow up around rough water and learn to swim in it, it's not for the weak.
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u/HuntingTheWumpus Jun 02 '23
I half expected one of the lifeguards from Bondi to splash out for a rescue and issue a stern warning about swimming in Backpackers' Rip.
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u/killacam925 Jun 02 '23
The ocean is terrifying, that seems relatively mild, but could kill you in an instant. Water is a crazy thing.
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u/TraditionalPenalty82 Jun 02 '23
Didn't they see what the sea did to that building behind them, first? 🤦🏽♂️ It prolly is that mad.
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u/jparr8813 Jun 02 '23
For some reason I feel like the older man jumped in to help and became helpless himself
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u/DrinkForLillyThePink Jun 02 '23
As an Aussie, I'd be more concerned about the quality of the water. It's rough, but nothing ridiculous.
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u/MoonPuma337 Jun 02 '23
So this is what they say when people talk about get out of the water if the waves look like squares. I always thought that shit was photoshopped but apparently, shopped twas photo thy not…..umm…or…yeah.
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u/MarkyMark19902020 Jun 02 '23
I know that feeling. Happened to me before, the look of fear on his face is I just escaped death.
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u/VegaLektor Jun 02 '23
Hi there form the seashore, I’m just recording your last moments seen by another human being, any words for the camera?
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u/talentedpup Jun 02 '23
Respect to that fully clothed guy. Wet clothes weigh you down more than people realize and he still swam back dragging a body against a strong tide.
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u/fatmarfia Jun 02 '23
This happens in Bondi and many other tourist beaches every weekend in Australia.
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Jun 02 '23
Booby‘s Bay in Cornwall had the most insane currents when I used to go there as a kid in the 1980s. Almost drowned in 4 feet of water but my bro heaved me back to shore. After 6 pm it went really wild.
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u/Darkchick3n Jun 02 '23
Im a good swimmer, did a bit of amateur competition.
I would never go take a swim in this, thats a deathwish
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u/Hopeful-Eggplant7262 Jun 02 '23
No one is saying anything about the fully clothed older guy jumping in and saying his life. Dude is bad ass.
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u/peachvalleygirl Jun 02 '23
Watched alot of "Bondi Beach Lifeguards" and they had to deal with stupid crap like this all the time. Good on the guy that helped them finally get out. They would be dead if he hadn't .
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u/ronaldreynolds Jun 02 '23
Experienced swimmer and The Hand of God saved this boy. Learn to read the surf's signs and rip current escape procedures plz.
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u/Selfactualizedmofo Jun 02 '23
Happened to me once when I was 15 years old i will never forget the feeling of exhaustion and the thought of dying
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u/GrandProblem8034 Jun 03 '23
Damn, those cross waves fucked them up real good! Glad no one died that day.
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u/Jodelfreak Jun 04 '23
The water is of a color as if this were recorded close to the sewage outlet pipes at Brighton beach .... Or, well any UK beach lately.
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u/stewpidazzol Jun 01 '23
Everything about that looks like ‘no’.