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animal05

wrote:

Also taught
them not to focus on one point on shore, just swim toward shore.
Swimming to a point can get you in trouble especially if you are in
moving water. Just my observations, being a self taught boater in the
sound and on the river.

Good advice in a river, but not so in the ocean, specifically in rip
tides. Many people that drwon from rip tides try to swim back to the
beach, which is directly against the current. The best way out of a rip
tide is swimming parallel to the beach :-)