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CoTtOnMoUf

CoTtOnMoUf

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Mane... my gf and I went to the beach yesterday and the water was really choppy. Every few waves were 8-10 feet high. I've swam here a dozen times back in the 80s and 90s but I never swam with water this rough.

I slowly went went out about 100 feet or so and I said ok, this is far enough, it's time to start heading back. I was not swimming much... just treading water to stay on top of these waves and the undercurrent that keeps wanting to take me further out. I'm trying to come back to shore but I wasn't going anywhere very fast. Then I decided to do a breath stroke sprint back to shore but still didn't make much traction.

Now I'm really out of breath and lightweight starting to panic because I'm still 50 feet from shore and all of my energy stores are spent! I seriously had to calm myself down because I actually ask myself "Is this how your life ends?"

I calmed myself down a bit and did a slow backstroke back to where I could stand up. I walked out and sat on the log we setup shop at, trying to catch my breath. This all took 10-15 minutes or so. I thought I was a goner for a minute.

I was reminded of what someone told me decades ago... in a situation like that, your best bet is to swim sideways with the current. I tried to swim a straight line and that current said fuck you!

I learned a very important lesson yesterday! :eek:
 
Panic in the water is very real and happens way more than we realise.
A lot of swimmers can look like they're OK, from a distance, yet experiencing a little panic
while they deal with the situation, calm themselves and force their body to find reserves
and swim to safety. As you did. The key word is calm, its what actually saved you.
Be safe out there, family.
 
CoTtOnMoUf said:
Mane... my gf and I went to the beach yesterday and the water was really choppy. Every few waves were 8-10 feet high. I've swam here a dozen times back in the 80s and 90s but I never swam with water this rough.

I slowly went went out about 100 feet or so and I said ok, this is far enough, it's time to start heading back. I was not swimming much... just treading water to stay on top of these waves and the undercurrent that keeps wanting to take me further out. I'm trying to come back to shore but I wasn't going anywhere very fast. Then I decided to do a breath stroke sprint back to shore but still didn't make much traction.

Now I'm really out of breath and lightweight starting to panic because I'm still 50 feet from shore and all of my energy stores are spent! I seriously had to calm myself down because I actually ask myself "Is this how your life ends?"

I calmed myself down a bit and did a slow backstroke back to where I could stand up. I walked out and sat on the log we setup shop at, trying to catch my breath. This all took 10-15 minutes or so. I thought I was a goner for a minute.

I was reminded of what someone told me decades ago... in a situation like that, your best bet is to swim sideways with the current. I tried to swim a straight line and that current said fuck you!

I learned a very important lesson yesterday! :eek:
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You MUTHAFUCKAAAAAAH..

now Im jealous.. I love them wavy ass beaches...

Which beach was this tho???

When them waters get really wild, I just swim underwater,

come up for air, go back under.. I love that shit..

then dryin out on the beach, takin a nap, rinse and repeat

a few more times..

I could use that right now...

glad you survived bruh..

but when its not your time its not your time bruh...!!
 
Glad you made it out, fam

Reminds of the time when I was swimming at a beach as a kid (about 10 at the time) and this STRONG current started to sweep me further, all I could think to myself was...

"How far out will I wind up?"
"Will anybody find me, later?"
"Is THIS how it ends?"

Then LUCKILY , this large Hispanic dude, further down, was near the side of the current, grabbed my arm to help me get out of the fast moving current zone. I was thankful AF.
 
Water.


Your either having the time of your life in it, or your fighting for your life and drowning.





Riptides kill alot of swimmers. Glad you recognized your situation and swam ACROSS the outgoing water flow and someone trained like me doesn't have to swim a grid looking for what used to be you.
 
Happened to me in Cartageña with a Trini chick I met while I was there. We both could swim, but those waves kept coming, back to back, with less time between them seemingly. We were both out, but close together. Then we got separated a little, she kept going... I remember coming up from a wave tossing me and thinking, "Shee too far away from me, can I get to her in time if something happens? What I'ma tell her people?"

God's Gift said:
Water.


Your either having the time of your life in it, or your fighting for your life and drowning.





Riptides kill alot of swimmers. Glad you recognized your situation and swam ACROSS the outgoing water flow and someone trained like me doesn't have to swim a grid looking for what used to be you.
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What you mean by ACROSS? Like diagonal?

If I swim across its a longer route, ain't it? I ain't gone never to get to the shore.
 
Mrfreddygoodbud said:
Which beach was this tho???

When them waters get really wild, I just swim underwater,

come up for air, go back under.. I love that shit..

then dryin out on the beach, takin a nap, rinse and repeat

a few more times..

I could use that right now...

glad you survived bruh..

but when its not your time its not your time bruh...!!
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Mentor Headlands. It is the
longest natural beach in
Ohio and attracts two
million visitors annually.


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Glad to hear you made it out alright! @CoTtOnMoUf


My dad had a similar experience in the mid-90s visiting some friends of ours in San Diego. Him and the other dad decided to cool off one afternoon. The other 4 - 5 of us were nearby onshore (hillside). The waves and undercurrent picked up making it difficult to get back to shore. Then it started pushing them to their right where some larger exposed rocks were (where one could typically stand up in the water). Instead their backs were brushed up on that a few times cutting them up a bit. No head injuries. We kept a close eye but didn’t want to jump in and make the situation even worse with more people in peril (kids and women).

When they made it out ... they were like, "fuck that! I need to rest now and take a nap or something!"

My grandpa (dad's father) was a part-time fisherman back in the day. He lost a handful of friends by way of drowning at sea on ships that he possibly could have been on. Including a father and son duo that my grandma knew well too. When grandpa passed in late-2006, we waited until his birthday in the 2nd quarter of 2007 and went to the fishermen's memorial in Steveston & spread his ashes in the ocean. Beautiful day - sunny with a cool breeze.




en.wikipedia.org

Steveston, British Columbia - Wikipedia

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Public Art Registry - Steveston Fishermen's Memorial (1996) - City of Richmond BC

www.richmond.ca www.richmond.ca
 
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CoTtOnMoUf said:
Mane... my gf and I went to the beach yesterday and the water was really choppy. Every few waves were 8-10 feet high. I've swam here a dozen times back in the 80s and 90s but I never swam with water this rough.

I slowly went went out about 100 feet or so and I said ok, this is far enough, it's time to start heading back. I was not swimming much... just treading water to stay on top of these waves and the undercurrent that keeps wanting to take me further out. I'm trying to come back to shore but I wasn't going anywhere very fast. Then I decided to do a breath stroke sprint back to shore but still didn't make much traction.

Now I'm really out of breath and lightweight starting to panic because I'm still 50 feet from shore and all of my energy stores are spent! I seriously had to calm myself down because I actually ask myself "Is this how your life ends?"

I calmed myself down a bit and did a slow backstroke back to where I could stand up. I walked out and sat on the log we setup shop at, trying to catch my breath. This all took 10-15 minutes or so. I thought I was a goner for a minute.

I was reminded of what someone told me decades ago... in a situation like that, your best bet is to swim sideways with the current. I tried to swim a straight line and that current said fuck you!

I learned a very important lesson yesterday! :eek:
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This sounds like the same situation that happened to a friend of mine from Harlem. And like you it was the undercurrent that almost did him in.
 
If anyone else gets into a similar situation, calm down and then swim along the beach, not to the beach. You'll end up catching waters calm enough to swim back to the beach. Unless things have changed, that's what we were taught in the military.
 
Big Tex said:




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That was it!

That's exactly what happened to me in that 1st video, only my waves were larger. That last video is EXATLY what I was fighting against! The more I tried to get back to shore, I noticed I wasn't going nowhere. After a while is when I started panicking and hyperventilating. That's when I said, fuck that you ain't dying out here... there's gotta be a way out. THE MAIN THING I DID WRONG WAS PANIC AND COULDN'T CATCH MY BREATH! It's the same with ANY emergency situation like a burning structure, car accident.... you gotta think fast WITHOUT panicking!

Thanks for those videos. :cool:
 
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