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  • moldero4

    Teaching my daughter how to identify, avoid and swim out of rip tides for the past couple hours, great morning, now back to work.

    • Shit, teach me too? I encountered my first one last summer and it freaked me out a bit - i'd always felt quite a confident swimmer 'til then :\detritus
    • I pull people out of rips about once every couple months, kids and adults, they can be pretty intensemoldero
    • best thing to do in a worst case scenario is learn how to tread for long periods of time using minimal effort, keeping air in your abdomen and just floatmoldero
    • works good in a beach with people on it, then you can get saved (hopefully) people drown by tiring themselves out fighting the currentmoldero
    • if your ever caught in a rip, swim parallel to the beach to get out of it, but keep in mind the more it takes you out, the wider they getmoldero
    • I got caught in one this summer. My girlfriend won't let me forget how scared my face was, as she looked on, safe on the beachset
    • I swam like there was no tomorrowset
    • haha yup, some rips are just to quick and fat I don't even get in 'em without a boardmoldero
    • I just swam parallel to it, as I'd vaguely recalled. Just I'd been out for about an hour already, so when I realised I wasn't getting one to shore, got a littledetritus
    • .. concerned. I just want to know how to spot them for next time, because I'm getting old and next time might not have the stamina...detritus
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    • yupmoldero

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