Dead swimmers washing up on beaches this Labor Day weekend

[scho63]

Sadly so many young swimmers, even in excellent shape, venture into the ocean and succumb to rip currents. These occur often on the Eastern Seaboard. NY, NJ, DE, NC seeing deaths.

This Labor Day we are up to at least 4 deaths of people who never learned how to escape rip currents. It's so easy yet people panic and swim back straight into the currents, exhausting themselves.

To escape you face parallel to the beach and swim straight, ignoring if you are being pushed out further from the shore. At some point soon, you will be outside the rip currents and can easily and safely ride the waves back to shore.

Another large group of people had to be rescued as well.

Please learn how to escape rip currents before you venture into the ocean.

Horrible and tragic way for a vacation and holiday to end.

[crispystl]

Originally Posted by cdcox

I’ve floated the Current, Niangua, and Merrimack. The Current seems to line up to its name. I’ve both seen and heard about a handful of scary moments on that river.

We used to float it all the time and one year this lady kept following us trying to mooch booze, well I guess eventually she got some from some other group because she got HAMMERED and then flipped her canoe at a bottle neck and the current had it jammed against two trees long ways pinning her underwater. She's lucky there were so many other people or there is no way she would've survived.

It was terrifying honestly.

[Spott]

This is why I don’t attend rap concerts in the ocean.

[Why Not?]

Honestly, most of the time it's as simple as swimming at beaches with lifeguards and heeding their warnings when they notify you of a rip current.

[FlaChief58]

This rip current live near you?

[Otter]

Went swimming in the Atlantic during an incoming hurricane I was unaware of and the current and waves were like getting picked up by the ankle from an orc on Lord of the Rings and being slammed on the ocean floor.

Ocean be scary when it wants. Respect it.

[Gravedigger]

Always teach my swimming students that if they can't touch, no matter where they are, to practice floating on their back now so if the time comes they can save immense amounts of energy by just floating on their back and flutter kicking. Alot of swimmers overcompensate and use their arms and shoulders way too much to overpower and swim faster, but the legs are a better source of energy to just stay calm and slowly but more efficiently get out of harms way and back to shore. We do drills where they just do back floats and flutter kick 25m to 50m to get used to it. Sometimes we incorporate what we call for the kids Chicken-Airplane-Soldier for their arms to help them understand the motion better and keep a straight line.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

I've always loved water and always a great swimmer. When I was a teen I was invincible. Swam across the state lake out side Coffeyville many times. Speed boat would come across and I'd dive under it.

NOW, being 59 I've realized that , the ocean is where sharks live. I don't get along with sharks.

[crispystl]

Originally Posted by Gravedigger

Always teach my swimming students that if they can't touch, no matter where they are, to practice floating on their back now so if the time comes they can save immense amounts of energy by just floating on their back and flutter kicking. Alot of swimmers overcompensate and use their arms and shoulders way too much to overpower and swim faster, but the legs are a better source of energy to just stay calm and slowly but more efficiently get out of harms way and back to shore. We do drills where they just do back floats and flutter kick 25m to 50m to get used to it. Sometimes we incorporate what we call for the kids Chicken-Airplane-Soldier for their arms to help them understand the motion better and keep a straight line.

Yeah my stepdad always taught me this and it's really great advice.

[ThaVirus]

According to some douchebag cop who was working on New Smyrna Beach Labor Day weekend probably 5-6 years ago, upwards of 80% of drowning deaths over the holiday are alcohol related.

At least that’s what he told us when he saw us drinking beer on the beach and told us we had to leave or he’d arrest us. ****ing prick.

If I want to get drunk and drown in the ocean, I should be able to do it!

In all seriousness, I really don’t **** with swimming in the ocean too much. Occasionally I’ll catch myself pushing it and realize I can’t touch the floor anymore and make my way back closer to shore. You can easily swim in chest-deep water so there really is no point in swimming past the point you can touch. I’m not much of a daredevil and even I can admit I really only do it for the thrill. It’s just not worth the risk, though.

[scho63]

Labor Day Horrors Continue to Haunt America as 4th Swimming Enthusiast Gets Washed off New Jersey Shore

Published 09/07/2023, 7:25 AM EDT

https://www.essentiallysports.com/us...-jersey-shore/

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by Simply Red

I almost drowned in Current River when I was 14 or so, not my first rodeo champ, I've been trying to drown for years.

More likely to get hepatitis if you fall in the Current River on weekends during the summer now.

[scho63]

Still rescuing people by the dozens....