Growing up outside is a privilege. Mine was the coast of SC. I’m not a fan of beaches but love the marsh.
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I was living far from the sea before we moved to Ivory Coast, that’s why. Zero rip in lake Geneva. No sign at the beach in Ivory Coast saying it was dangerous.
Yeah I sometimes forget that not everyone lives on one of the coasts.
I met a few people in the Army, from the midwest who didn’t know how to swim let alone know how to handle a rip.
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If there is a cross current moving along the beach sometimes the rip currents will move along parallel to the beach as well. If you choose the wrong direction to swim out of the rip you can potentially end up a long way out to sea before you are out of it.
Where I learned the surf (Westport, WA, many years ago) there was a nice rip next to the jetty - a free ride out. However, I guess, potentially ‘dangerous’, in that, it lets you get out without battling through the breaking surf and getting into surf ‘over your head’ so to speak.
btw, off the rip topic, back onto the main topic, just saw this article:
(if the news report is accurate (big if))
3 mistakes:
- climbing outside of season
- rescued once, rescued twice (how much is a phone worth)