11 people have died in rip currents in less than two weeks along Gulf Coast

[druidity33]

6. Bullshit they can't pull you under...

i was 7 when it happened to me. I was knee deep at a LI beach... the tide came in, and all of a sudden the sand was sucked out from under me and i was being dragged on my but out into the open water. I could have easily died. I tumbled under water for a half minute and then managed to grab onto some submerged wood on the floor, planted my foot against it until the surge passed. I crawled to the beach and puked up sand and water. NOBODY noticed. The whole thing took maybe 2 minutes total. To this day i don't swim at ocean beaches. I'm in my fifties...