A Pennsylvania couple drowned in a rip current while on vacation in Florida with their six children, according to authorities.
Yeah, they’re usually marked, but ocean temp changes a lot of shit and you can run across ones with zero signage.
I’d imagine Florida is especially bad because they refuse to believe in climate change and anything connected to it.
So I can see them defunding the organizations meant to keep this updated and people safe
If you go into the ocean you should know a little bit about how to survive in it. Otherwise, you may not.
There is zero reliable ways to tell if there’s a rip from the beach…
The danger is under the waves, if there isn’t proper signage you won’t know until it’s probably too late. And everyone is different. The teens were able to swim to safety, the parents weren’t.
If you recognize you’re in a rip current, what you can try to do is swim parrell to the shore and then try to come in. It’s dangerous because the rip can’t be overcome by swimming directly in, you have to go around it.
But even if you know that, you might not remember, and it might not help.
The people that often die from this, are overconfident people like you who think it can’t happen to them because they’re smart.
I never claimed that I would survive. However, I know that the beaches I’ve been to in North Florida warn of rip currents and you can feel their effect very close to the shore. It’s a game you wouldn’t want to play when you’re already tired or dehydrated.
