For those who don't know, rip "tides"/currents(as can be seen in this video on a smaller scale) tend to only be in one spot. So instead of wasting you're energy trying to swim towards the beach against the current, it's generally advised to swim _parallel_ to the beach, until you are no longer in the rip current. Also, if you get too tired, the best way(at least that I know of) to rest in water over your head, is to lie on your back. Some people have trouble with this, especially initially or if they are already exausted(don't wait until that point!), but you can take advantage of the buoyancy of your lungs. Humans are approximately neutrally bouyant(meaning we neither sink nor rise) in water(at least at/near the surface. The deeper you go the more negatively buoyant you will be(i.e. the more likely you will be to sink.) This means it can be difficult to keep your head above water. However, if you have air in your lungs, you will become positively buoyant(i.e. you will float.) When you breath out, you will likely start to sink. So if you can keep air in your lungs for as long as possible(obviously without holding your for too long), you will easily float on your back, especially in salt water(which is denser than freshwater, and thus easier to float in.) When you exhale, try to do so relatively quickly, and then take a deep breath. This will allow you to stay afloat, preventing you from ever becoming negatively buoyant enough for your head to dip beneath the surface.
Um an error: It should be Parallel to the beach not perpendicular. Perpendicular would come be coming straight towards the beach, while parallel would be swimming sideways to the shore which is what supposed to be done when you're trapped in a riptide. Thank you for the rest of the stuff! It's quite informative and could really be helpful when in need. Have a great day/night! edit: typo
It’s very very hard nearly impossible to realise one is stuck in a rip tide and also remember this advice before panicking and completely losing all the energy trying to swim back straight.
I grew up in Florida, had been hearing ‘swim parallel’ advice literally my whole life. The first time I got stuck in a riptide, I completely forgot this advice, and honestly didn’t know I was stuck in one until it was almost too late. After swimming for an hour I could see the shore right in front of me, maybe ten feet, but couldn’t get to it for almost 15 more minutes. When I finally got to the shore, threw up water, thanked God for my life, I realized ‘ wait a minute….that was a rip tide huh’. Very humbling experience.
My wife and I, both from Ohio, were caught in a rip current together in northeast Florida. We both heard what we should do -- she swam south and I swam north, we both body surfed back to shore (less effort than swimming) not knowing what happened to the other. We laugh about it now.
riptides are absolutely terrifying. i got caught in one about a month ago and if i called for help just a minute later my friends and i would’ve drowned. we just kept getting sucked out further and further and we were getting crushed by waves. our mistake was that we kept trying to swim against it so it tired us out. an older man pointed parallel to shore and that is what saved my friends and i. i definitely owe my life to him.
One day I was absolutely baked and standing in the ocean on a sandbar, facing away from the shore. Eventually I turned around and realized I had moved WAY OUT with the sandbar. I started swimming back and realized I was in a riptide. I did the thing you’re not supposed to do and panicked. I swam harder than I ever have in my life, on pure adrenaline, straight through the riptide toward the shore. For anyone who doesn’t know, you’re supposed to swim along the shoreline until you get out of the riptide. I got lucky. Somehow I powered through it and made it back to the shore. The scary part is, no one I was with even noticed what had happened. I could have drowned and no one would have known until I was long gone. Be careful out there.
I'm not a strong swimmer. I can swim but I'm very slow and tire easily. My sister was a beginner at the time and wanted to try the beach. We were being watched by our mum but we went just far enough to not touch the floor anymore. Had fun. Started trying to swim back to shore but we were twice as far as we were within 10 seconds and making zero progress. Thankfully I knew what a riptide was and after a second or two of panic I realised we were both in one and told my sister to swim with me parallel to shore. It still took us a bit further out but we got to shore fairly easily as soon as we were out of its grasp. I then educated her on what happened so now she knows what a riptide is as well and knows how to get out.
This EXACT same situation happened to me on the beaches of Rocky Point, Mexico. I was in my early teens, swimming around with family, very close to the shoreline. Suddenly, I was swept far away from my family members and no one had noticed what was happening. I was being thrown about underwater as I tried to grasp what was going on.. I tried to scream for help but no one could hear me with the sound of the waves crashing over my head. Every second, another wave would come down, with no time to gasp for air. I somehow managed to swim through it and lived. Got back to the shore and told everyone I almost died and that the ocean tried to kill me.
When I was really little, my childhood dog was taken by a shallow riptide similar to this. He got dragged under and popped back up a solid 100 yards out. My dad had to swim out to get him and he was ok but it was extremely lucky. Half Moon Bay has some insane riptides at high tide that have taken beach goers out a 1/4 mile. Never turn your back on the sea
not to mention the amount of force it has by pushing you further out, I was almost sucked into one when i was waist deep into water, literally had to walk at like a 40 degree angle cause it was so strong in order to get out of it, i didn't know how to swim at the time either
If you're caught in a riptide, DO NOT struggle against it in the opposite direction when it pulls you put to the sea. You WILL tire out and drown no matter how strong or good swimmer you are, so you better not get a superiority complex despite the warning. WHAT YOU NEED TO DO is to swim sideways. You can exit the riptide this way because it's not actually very wide, and THEN you can swim to the shore.
Keep looking a fixed spot on land to see how far ur going. Chances are the rip will only take you as far out as the break (deep calm water no crashing waves). Head towards the surfers back there, catch a wave back.
My experience of this as a non-swimmer, in Goa India. My husband Steve (a good swimmer) and I went for a quick dip before breakfast and everything happened so fast, truly the most terrifying experience and the closest to death either of us have come --- First wave : waist deep, hit my sides and slapped my ears Took a couple of steps towards Steve in the Deep to avoid getting hit Second wave: just above waist deep but slapped my other ear as i faced it sideways Went a few steps closer to Steve Waves 3&4 we bobbed over them and laughed as we did, as we always do Wave 5 i saw it from a distance it seemed big, i shouted " Steve! Steve!" (I always do this when there's a big wave, it's like a joke between us), he said let's go through it instead and I said no let's jump We jumped it and were totally fine But suddenly i was shoulder deep Started walking towards the shallow when we saw the next one Wave 6 came and we jumped that one as well, but once we did i realised i was on my tippy toes and barely above water. Steve said don't worry let's go towards to the shore. We barely went one foot and wave 7 came and crashed over our heads Next thing i knew my feet were far from the ground and I was struggling to stay afloat Steve told me to get on his back and he would swim us back. I did and the next wave swallowed us in again. He kicked and kicked but we only seemed to be moving further away into the deep I couldn't tell what was happening as there was water in my eyes, ears, going into my nose and i started to feel a bit out of body Heard him tell me it's not working and to get off him and go to his side. A few more seconds of blurry green. But i was holding on to him tight so kept thinking he had us Then i heard him shout 'help!' and wave. He had the look of despair on his face No one could hear his scream The realisation and reality hit me then and i couldn't believe we were going to drown/die this way, this easily, with our beach bags and phones right there in the distance I remember spitting some water out of my mouth and thinking we need a higher pitch to be heard and i screamed as loudly as i could at my highest vocal pitch A woman walking on the beach, foreign lady with black hair and a black swimsuit turned to face us She seemed unsure about whether we were having fun or needed help. So i screamed even louder the second time and then a third. She immediately responded and started shouting for the lifeguard and coming towards us herself and then i knew we would be ok. We held each other tight and Steve kept kicking for the both of us. The waves kept coming. In a matter of seconds i felt a hand hold mine through the water - a lifeguard had approached us on a Jet ski diagonally from the shore. Will never forget the safety i felt in that moment. The foreign lady had also come towards us but stuck to the shallow. She shouted, close your eyes! As another wave hit us and we all went flying, thankfully, towards the shore. Before i knew it we had been helped onto the sand and it was over The whole thing must have been a total of five, seven minutes. It was only later when we spoke with the lifeguard , that we had been caught in a rip tide . He taught us that if it ever happened again it is important to remember to swim in a direction parallel to the beach and not straight towards the shore.
I've lived 5 miles from Lake Michigan for 62 yrs & never saw a real-life example of a rip tide. I'm a good swimmer, but now I know what to avoid & how to get out of it if I get caught in one. Thank you!
If ever you'll get caught in a rip ride, DO NOT try to go against the current!!! Swim to the left or to the right!!! DO NOT swim forward to shore because you don't have the strength to go against the strong pull of the water back to the ocean. Your priority once you get caught in a riptide is NOT to reach shore. Your priority is to get out of the riptide.
That is actually not true, swimming left/right can be just as hard as going against the current, it depends on the rip tie, so experts tend to not advise that. The best option is to just stay a float and wait, 80/90% of rip ties move in circles, so they’ll take you back to the shore themselves. And if you are unlucky and they don’t, you can just move parallel to the beach once they vanish, and find some waves that will
If you’re ever dragged out by a rip tide the key is to swim sideways parallel to the shoreline. If that is not an option due to fatigue, allow the current to take you out, save your strength and remain calm. Panicking and struggling against the current is what will kill you. It might seem like it takes you out miles but you can be rescued and you stand a better chance of waiting until the current dies down
this! if there's lifeguards at the beach, try to put your hand up & hold it up & still to attract their attention & signal you need help too & if possible, float on your back or other horizontal position, as the rip tends to be stronger below the surface, so the closer your body is to the surface, the less pull on you
To anyone reading this (IMPORTANT AS THIS COULD SAVE A LIFE) I played waterpolo and swam competitively in highschool as well as surfed since a young teenager who lived and currently lives in California. As a riptide takes you out or you are tired from swimming , eggbeat (a style of floating in the water), it is the most efficient as well as complex way for floating in the water. This is taught in waterpolo to float proficiently. I strongly encourage people to learn to eggbeat as it allows you to float in water while minimally using energy. Watch UA-cam videos and practice it safely in a pool or pay someone to teach you how to eggbeat and learn the basics of swimming. I work at a pediatric hospital and have seen too many kids either near drown or drown due to improper swimming/floating techniques as well as no one watching their kids. My oldest sister taught her kids to start floating in water even as infants, and now they love the water and swim/float effortlessly. I would advise parents to do the same for their kids, drowning can be prevented and is very common especially during the summertime. Stay safe and have fun in the water.
please don't do this people! This person knows how to swim in POOLS, NOT the ocean, let alone in a riptide! Anything so complex you need to learn & practice it in advance should be avoided! If you can, it's always good to practice emergencies, but you should not be using techniques so complicated that they require mastering first. I'm an Aussie, I grew up in the surf & this technique is straight out dumb for the surf anyway & particularly for a riptide! You do NOT want to be flailing your legs independently in different directions when trying to deal with currents dragging your body around in different directions under the water! What you actually want to be doing is swimming at patrolled beaches, between flags that indicate that area has been checked & is safe. If you don't do that, or get in trouble anyway, then in a rip, you want to be getting your body as horizontal as possible, as the rip is generally stronger deeper down, so roll onto your back & float, or if you're not comfortable doing that, roll onto your side & move your arms & legs so as to keep yourself horizontal on your side. You can look up "sidestroke" if you want to, but it's just kicking your legs & moving your arms around in whatever way works for you in that surf/rough environment. If you struggle to get into a horizontal position, use basic treading water while figuring out how to, or do whatever you are most comfortable doing in the water, from dogpaddle to freestyle or just floating, it doesn't matter, you just want to do what makes you personally feel most in control & confident. Ultimately, you are planning on moving, not staying stationary as this eggbeeting thing is designed to keep you, you want to swim parallel to the shore for about 30-50 metres & then pause & let your feet drop back down to put you in a horizontal position & see if you are now clear of the rip & if you are, then swim straight back to shore. You will likely need to swim much less than 30 metres to get clear of it, but you don't want to keep changing position & testing, just go for a good swim parralel to the shore so you know you are well & truly clear without wasting time & energy testing repeatedly. That eggbeeter thing is designed to hold a person as high out of the water as possible, in a pool, so as to give them the best ability to catch a ball & participate in a team sport & you can get up to around chest height out of the water with that, but that is completely & utterly useless & energy wasting to attempt to do that in the ocean in an emergency, plus it's not even physically possible while being thrown around by waves & currents! In an emergency, all you want to do is have your head out of the water, or even just to have your head intermittently out of the water to take a breath, there is no need ot be higher than that! Any extra height is just wasting energy! If I was going to advise a technique that needs practice before doing, I would suggest just learn to float naturally in any position, but I'm not recommending that, cause you shouldn't be using techniques that need practice before they can be used. I do think it's worth pointing out though that you do not actually need ANY body movement to keep your head above water. I was able bodied as a kid, but I now use a wheelchair, with no use of my legs & limited use of my arms. I was a little nervous going back into the water after my accident, but when I got in, I relaxed, cause I found I was more than capable of floating & moving around even with very limited use of my body. I love to go to the deep end of a pool & just "stand" in an upright position, just to experience that upright position that I can't do on land. I don't use my arms or legs, I just position myself upright & relax & let the water hold me up. My mouth is only just above the water level when doing that, but it's certainly enough to breathe. If I take a deep breath in, my head & neck rises out of the water, due to the extra buoyancy of the air in my lungs, but even without air in my lungs, I still float with my mouth & nose above the water in a pool. In the ocean, even though the salt adds buoyancy, I still need to move a little to be above the water to breathe, due to the waves/rough surface, but still very little effort. That's what people should be aiming for if wanting to save energy, NOT learning special kicks designed to lift you super high. Again though, in an emergency, you do whatever you are already most comfortable with & in a rip, you focus on getting horizontal & moving as quickly as possible, parallel to the beach, so as to get yourself out of the rip before it can drag you out further & once clear, use the adrenaline you have in your body to swim/bodysurf back to shore before you get a chance to feel exhausted. Also, if you want to teach your babies to "swim", take them to an accredited baby teacher, there are critical steps that are needed to induce breath holding reflexes before their head goes under water & if you don't know/use these, you could drown your baby! There are plenty of teachers out there that specifically teach baby water survival & they are the experts on everything to do with that
zigghiggs Yooooo!! That cliff spot is gnarly!! I could never do that. The ocean is too sketchy. I was snorkeling there a few years back and it was never so hard to tread water bruh. If I was out there for another 5 mins, I would have drowned. 💯💯 Follow me on IG homie 👌🏽 @alexmaunu
I considered myself a very strong swimmer but about two years ago, no matter how hard I tried to swim, I was just not going anywhere because I panicked. I remembered my army buddy telling me a story if I ever was in situation like that to swim sideways. Staying calm and his advice saved my life.
@@frankdunn1813 yea same, although I was in a bit safer position because I had a surfboard... Although I still didn't expect a rip to be where it was and once I identified that I was in a rip I started paddling parallel to the beach, still took ages to get back to shore because I was paddling against wind
Lived by the ocean for a bit as a kid. Got pulled in by the riptide real bad. Took about what felt like a solid 20 minutes to get back to shore. Top 5 scariest moments of my life, never underestimated the ocean again after that.
Some time around 8 or 9 years old, I was pulled out by one from about 15 feet away from shore. Instantly, I understood what was happening and just casually swam to the side, not thinking anything of it. Then years later learned what a riptide was and that I was supposed to be scared. I still don't see them as a huge threat unless you panic.
Mmmhh, I'd say its more of a mix of biology and physics, the laws of nature in the physical world and, oh wtf am I doing here, its 2 am and I work tomorrow
Everytime we're having a vacation in our Grandpa's place, our Grandpa he always tell us to be mindful and cautious of riptides. Whenever we get close to any water he'll tell us if it's a riptide or not. He always say to us how dangerous it is. And there's this big riptide in their beach. It's really big because there's the shore ofc, then adult chest deep water, but there's another line of shore across it and it's long. Somewhere in between it is where the water escapes. And whenever we go near it, our Granfather always like shouting to not go near it. This is why I'm really terrified to deep waters, there's just too much things that can kill you in an instant. My jellyfish sting experience still haunts me till this day, the big scar on my leg always brings me back to that horror. We call riptides here "sabang", iirc btw.
As a Midwestern I took my new bride on a honeymoon to Montego Bay, Jamaica. Second day my wife was tanning on the beach while I was snorkeling in the Bay with a guy I met from N.Y. At around 4:30 pm we went to the mouth of the bay diving down to the bottom seeing all the different kinds of fish. Had 400 lbs. groupers, barracudas, you name it, it was like Joque Custoue! I noticed we kept getting further out and the seaweed instead of standing up was now almost flat on the sea bed pointing out to the sea. We both fought desperately. My masked was ripped off as well as one of my flippers, I knew I wouldn't make it back. I then found myself swimming to the bottom instead of up. This was the beginning of hypoxia setting in. Now I'm arguing with myself as to which direction is up and I couldn't rationalize my thoughts anymore cause of the lack of oxygen. I said to God that if I didn't get a miracle in two seconds... I'm going to gulp as much water I can to end this misery! A few times I yelled help but we were now 200 plus yards out, no one could hear our cries for help! Just then the riptide brought me to an underwater coral reef hill just outside the bay. The bottom was loaded with sea urchins and very sharp coral. I grabbed the coral and climbed away and towards the surface while at the same time so did the guy from N.Y. I could see blood all over the water from the coral ripping up my hands. WE MADE IT!! We were able to get out of the trench of deep water to the shallower part. That was 35 years ago and I thank God for everyday that He gives me to continue living! I would compare the power of that rip tide to someone pulling the plug out of a full tub of water...and your the size of an ant!
a lot of people who comment stories like this just seem like they're overselling it and have a big ego but this is a good story and you told it like it was without exaggerating. i'm glad you survived this experience
once me my sister and my dad and a few other random people where caught in a riptide at the beach. my dad held up my younger sister under the water because she couldn’t hold herself up. It was so scary because all of us where struggling to swim forward!! the lifegaurds also tried reallly hard to get us all out and thankfully all of us where ok, but nevertheless it was scary
Just such a perfect video! The guy actually goes on to clearly explain what a rip tide is, follows it with the camera, and now I genuinely know what a rip tide is! Give this man an Oscar.
Once, My family went to vacation to Guatemala and decided to go to the beach. It was a bit windy but nothing looked wrong so they decided to go for a swim. When a group of locals came and said to stay out of the water because a storm was coming and it'd be dangerous to stay. The adults took their word and we went back to the hotel. But my cousins (7 & 8years old i think) wanted to look for shells and stuff. So my mom told me(15 maybe 13) to go with them and make sure they wouldn't go inside the water. I was sitting on the sandbank begrudgingly watching over my cousins picking up shit, they were knee deep in the water. I told them to get out of the water but they were all "technically, my mom said to blah blah" I didn't want to deal with it. When out of nowhere a gigantic wave forms pretty close to shore. I got up and yelled at them to "GET OUT OF THE WATER!!" while running towards them. They didn't react in time and the wave knocks them down. I try my best to run/swim/hop to them. When a second wave hits us. Now I'm forced to swim and I'm going as fast as I can, they were frantically trying to reach me but the water is starting to suck us deeper in. I manage to grabbed them. One by her blouse and one by her hair. I take a deep breath and I PRAISE THE FUCKING SUN!! I go under water to lift the two up so they can take some air and I plant the tips of my toes to slow down the rate that we were going deeper in. When the water level went a bit down a third wave hits us hard enough to push us back to shore just enough for me to keep a better footing. with better footing I started screaming like a banshee for help. An old man came running and helped me with one of my stupid cousins while I dragged the other idiot out. And I was spoiled for the rest of vacation. If not by my mom, by my aunt's or uncles. And my cousins were grounded and kept on a "short leash". All that happened in a flash but also in the span of years at the same time.
Similar thing happened to me. Wasn't nearly dangerous, but basically my little brother was too afraid of water where he couldn't feel the sand below. Problem is at his age, which was 5 or 6, he could only feel sand at the point where the waves keep breaking. He even turned it into a game where he would play with the waves. Well the sea ain't a good playmate and one rather big wave snuck upon him and rolled his ass, dragged him down and across the bottom then spat him out. I went to grab him but he was too panicked and confused, so by the time I picked him up from the floor, there's another big wave coming. So I grabbed him, held him with my arms crossed while he squirmed and kicked to get away and then I planted my feet and position myself to break the wave with my back. Once the wave broke I let him go and he ran to our parents. He was actually angry at me, thinking I had pranked him by not letting go sooner. My parents saw the whole thing and scolded him, saying: you idiot, your brother was rescuing you and your were squirming and making his life harder." Needless to say he was pouting and angry at the sea for betraying him. Think it was first time he understood the whole "the sea is treacherous" thing.
@@falloutboy691 There’s something called undertow, the pulling back of water from breaking waves into the next coming one, that is actually especially dangerous for younger kids that can’t fight back against the flow. So we gotta be alert for rips, plus alert for undertow when it comes to kids.
@Cowlan A little knowledge is dangerous. Many a people have been surprised at how far riptides could take them. Just because you float doesn't mean it won't take you out of sight of the shore if it wants to.
Best depiction and explanation I’ve ever seen of a riptide! It really made it clear and easy to understand how dangerous these things can be. Thank you!
My dad nearly drowned off the coast of Malibu while he was on leave when serving in the US Army, because he’d been caught by and pulled under by a riptide. Fortunately, the public swimming area had lifeguards and one of them saw the whole thing happen and quickly went into Hasselhoff Mode and saved my father from being pulled all the way out to sea. My Dad developed an odd form of aquaphobia after this happened, and he never went swimming ever again for the rest of his life, not even once. And not even when I was 16, when he had an above-ground swimming pool put in into our backyard-he never got into it, ever. He also would only take a bath with no more than 2” of water in the bathtub.🙄
@Leontinus Did I say or did I imply that it wasn’t “understandable”? Or did you think that simply because I ended my last sentence with the “eyeroll” emoji? Whatever the reason, my Dad is deceased now, so, here’s a bit of advice: Always remember to look both ways before you go fuck yourself.
My brother got caught in a riptide once and was getting pulled out to sea. I went in after him not knowing what a riptide was but after grabbing his arm and struggling to try and beat the current back to shore, we guessed that if we couldnt beat the current to get to shore in that area, we would just swim horizontally to the beach till we found somewhere that had a weaker current. We guessed right, swam about 30 to 40 feet away from where we were getting dragged in, and the waves themselves pushed us back to shore. That’s how we survived getting pulled to sea and how we learned how riptides work. We were like 17 and 18 and there were no lifeguards at the beach.
@@widdasiddiq8810 Honestly, not really. We weren't panicking, more just trying to figure out how to get back. The realization that we were in significant danger did not hit us until after we got out of the water. Then we were like, "Wait... we could have been dragged out to sea and drowned. That's how it happens and we just went through it." Coincidentally enough, if I remember correctly, that actually happened to another teenager that same month but he wasn't so lucky, unfortunately.
Yeah, I did remember correctly. www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-may-19-me-31793-story.html This happened about an hour away from where I live that same month. I remembered hearing about it like a week later from our incident.
This video might be 11 years old, and has 11 million views(!!!), but that is about the best demonstration of a rip tide as you can get. Very, very well filmed and explained.
My mom got stuck in a riptide when she was in high school and almost died. Luckily, my uncle is a beast of nature and strong as hell and was able to get her back to shore while he was in a riptide, too.
When I was like 12 years old or so, I was in what some call “the under tow” similar to rip tide.. out there with my uncle that we hardly ever saw. He was so direct and stern, swim sideways! It’s the only way to get out! Be calm and swim sideways! As he lead the way. Pretty crazy stuff
But he never said that you have to swim parallel to shore to find a place where the current isn't pulling you away from shore, then you can swim back in.
@@gmc9753 But seeing WHY you have to swim parallel to shore helps. Might even be intuitive seeing how fast the riptide is headed back into the sea, and the calm water right next to it. Honestly I was confused how riptides worked until this video, now it makes complete sense.
Lost one of my old baseball coaches because of a riptide, he was saving a woman’s life and in return saved her and lost his. He was a true hero, I miss him so much to this day.
There’s actually a similar comment in the comment section where the commenter saved someone in a riptide but nearly died and thought he was gonna die himself. It’s sad your coach couldn’t make it
When I was probably eight ish years old, me, my mom and my little sister went to Clearwater beach FL (I lived there for 7 years) with my aunt and my two little cousins. We went all the time. The boys were in floaties and I had a boogie board. My aunt was trying to bring us to the sandbar she went to like 10 minutes before. She was slightly ahead with my sister when she screamed for us to go back. The sandbar was gone and a riptide started to pull us all out. Even on my board, it was exhausting trying to make it back to the beach. My mom held onto my cousins behind me (who were fine because of their floaties) and my aunt had my sister. We made it back after like 20 minutes and warned a family who were going to go out themselves. No one had seen us struggling to make it back as far as we knew. Later my aunt admitted that she thought my little sister was going to drown because she could barely hold her body above the water and kept swallowing it. And my mom does not like swimming in the ocean anymore. 😬
almost drowned in a riptide that ended up reeling back, trapping me under, and slamming me to the ground repeatedly. I had to be dragged out because I couldn't stand or swim. it was like the ocean became sentient and was deadset on killing me lol edit: also wanna add that the waves themselves became very violent before I could get out of the water, so I ended up getting stuck
Swim parallel to the beach and don’t panic. If you panic you will begin to exert yourself too much and burn all your energy. Just keep calmly swimming parallel and you’ll soon be free of the pull. 🤙🏻
I almost died in a riptide when I was a kid. There was a hurricane about a day away offshore, and we were swimming in the Atlantic in North Carolina. It was a sunny day. I had been swimming around with my back to shore, and when I turned around it was a lot farther away than I expected it to be. I started trying to swim back, but it seemed like it kept getting farther. I yelled for help but nobody was close enough to hear me or look my way. I vaguely remembered something about swimming sideways, so I did that, but by that time I was already worn out. I tried resting by floating on my back, but the waves kept crashing over me and getting water in my nose and mouth. I thought I was going to throw up from exertion. I kept swimming, very slowly, toward shore. Finally, I reached a point where my toes just barely touched sand. I worked the rest of my way in on tiptoes, using the sand to pull myself forward as my arms failed me. By the time I reached the shore I was totally spent and I blacked out right there. When I finally had the energy to get up, I looked for my family and found them way farther down on the beach. They didn’t seem worried about me and when I told them I almost drowned they didn’t take me seriously. It was such a bizarre and lonely feeling having gone through that with no witnesses and nobody acknowledging the seriousness of it. I was 11-12 years old when this happened.
@Geologick That must have been awful! To have that happen & your family not believe you? I can't even imagine how traumatic & hurtful that must have been. You're very lucky to have made it out.
I know that feeling. Your parents always tell you to tell them anything and they will always be there for you but when you tell them something important they either don’t believe or don’t care and for me I was told by my dad he will always be there for me I’m 16 now and he’s trying to kick me out of the house because of something my mom supposedly done but he’s a liar and I can’t believe shit he says
Growing up near the coastal area, the first lesson we were taught before even stepping into the water is "fear the ocean, because it doesn't care about you". This lesson stayed with me even to this day, and it pains me when people suffer from tidal accidents (and even casualties). Nature is not something you want to overestimate your confidence, and put your life on the line to "test the water".
My first lesson was “never go in waters deeper than your hips.” One: I grew up in Recife, a city in Brazil thats known for shark attacks, and going in hip deep water is asking for a shark to attack you. Two: in my experience, knee deep water is very easy to fall in. And the waves are strong, at least in Recife
I appreciate that you not only posted a video but used it as an opportunity to educate others. Mad respect for that bc you could’ve easily just posted it but taking the time to explain it just outta the blue as you saw it is really awesome
General Prodigy Riptides aren’t generally that wide, and if you got tired by swimming to the side, you wouldn’t have the energy to swim all the way back to shore if you let it take you all the way out before moving to the side. Plus by moving to the side you have a chance of being pulled toward the shore by the side of the riptide.
Thank you for posting. It is this sort of potentially life-saving content UA-cam is great for and, in my opinion, the main reason it was set up in the first place - to inform and educate.
I mean it pulls you back to the sea, there are only 2 ways to escape it: 1. If you're strong enough, swim to the side (horizontally) 2. If you're not strong enough but quite durable, just let it pulls you until you reach the end (quite dangerous, but again if you can fight the sea waves while being pulled to it, you'll be fine), then try to swim to the side then head back to the land. But most importantly, never fight the riptide once you get pulled (in short word, swim vertically back). It's a waste of energy and you'll be exhausted before you even reach the end. I know this because I've experienced it and luckily i was able to escape, while i was swimming vertically, i just realized this is futile so my observation told me to either swim horizontally, or reach the end of it.
A tip for if anyone ever gets caught in a riptide, don't try to swim against the current swim across it until you get out of the riptide thn swim back inland. Doing this is not only more effective in getting out of the riptide, but it stops you from getting fatigues as quickly which is what leads to many cases of people drowning in such circumstances. Stay safe out there everyone.
I got to that part and was just 🥰😊 he’s so informative and also adorable ☺️🌊 this was a great video anyways because of the detail and the great example but that brought it home 💓
They scare me so bad. My dad saved a girl’s life because no one was watching her and she got caught in one. She didn’t speak English but he could tell she was so grateful
Best video/explanation I've seen. Better than the professional ones with all the graphics and arrows. LOL! I could never understand what the arrows are pointing at. This is a great video. Thank you.
remember if you do get caught in a riptide “DO NOT SWIM STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE SHORE” make sure to swim to its sides, so you can escape the rip tide... (it is a losing battle against a rip tide, no matter how good of a swimmer you are)
Yep. Trying to fight it is just going to leave you exhausted as you get swept further and further out. Swimming parallel to the shore you will still get pulled out some, but you’ll get out of the riptide with plenty of energy left to swim back to shore.
Back when i was having a high physique and being a high endurance swimmer with excellent stamina i didn't know about rip tides but fool me i got into one and i swam against it for alot of time, took me more than 10 minutes to get to the shore and when i got there with no breathe left and laying on the shore completely exhausted. This lifeguard comes to me and says" hey, please avoid going into the water as there are rip tides" no shit man. I was literally the only one in water and the beach was kinda empty
@@ahmed17182 lol I had to rescue this guy that was stuck in a rip and I just swam straight to shore cause it wasn’t that far, but holy shut that was a mistake I had to swim with 100% effort for like 4 minutes nonstop when I coulda just swam sideways😂
@@ItsAsparageese also make sure to swim between the flags so you don’t get mowed over by a surfboard. It’s also where life guards are more likely to see you if you’re in danger
@@nafarisk Thank you! I'm from Colorado so even though I've been in the ocean a couple of times, I still joke that it's a hoax people use to troll us landlocked states lol, that's how unfamiliar with it I still truly am XD but I want to spend more time around it in the future so this kind of direct clear safety info is super helpful
@@ItsAsparageese I’m from Australia and practically grew up at the beach. Each year in primary school (I think America calls it grade school) we’d have lifeguards come in and talk about beach safety
@@nafarisk That's awesome! Reminds me of how when I was in grade school (we also call part of grade school "primary school" in some areas up to like 3rd grade, btw! 😀 ) we regularly had special instruction like that about fire safety and prevention, especially since back then we were in a hardcore drought cycle lol
swim sideways! i went too far out when i was like 11 and was caught it one but i remembered to swim sideways. i’m not sure what would’ve happened but it might’ve saved my life
I got caught in one once too. Very scary and exhausting. Swallowed lots of water trying to get back and almost didn’t make it. Also remembered about the swimming parallel and eventually was able to start moving back towards shore. I don’t go in past my waist now and probably forever. Lol. Ocean is no joke.
I was a stupid kid. I got caught and rode it out, thinking that it was just a weird wave. Saw my sister a little ways away and swam over to her, coincidentally swimming parallel to the shore
I got caught in a riptide off Cape Hatteras, NC as a teenager. Was out swimming in the surf and suddenly looked up and I was almost 200 yards from the shoreline and going out. I tried swimming straight back, to no avail. I kept cool and remembered to conserve energy for staying afloat, but I had no idea how I was gonna get back. Thank God my father, a Coastie who grew up near the ocean, was there. He swam out to me with a boogie board and guided me back (swimming diagonally toward shore, to get out of the current by going sideways). I am alive today because of God's grace and my father's actions. I'm a Coastie now myself, and once had to respond to a distress call from a guy whose girlfriend was swept out to sea while they were swimming off Long Beach, WA (after dark). There are signs there about every 75 yards warning of deadly rip currents. Tragically, we were too late. Read and heed the signs, and know what to do before doing anything in the water. This shit is no joke.
Lesson of the day: Standing inside of a riptide is asserting dominance.
More like the sea asserting dominance on us puny humans.
Sea doesn’t have anything on this Chad
@@starlightsall no the sea is weak. Us humans are destroying the planet so we are all killer no filler
It is uncomfortable though bc sand gose in your shorts
More like asserting stupidity
"As you can see, I'm slowly being forced deeper and deeper into the oce-..."
This had me weak 😂
"Hello, I am under the water. Please help me"
Now swim parallel to the shore!
Now you may have noticed I am thoroughly submerged in the water, this is typical when dealing with rip tides
@@alexchoi5612 here too much raining AaaAaAAaaAAaA-
As someone who lives in a landlocked state, I had no idea what a rip tide even was. Now I do in only a minute. A minute well spent. Thank you sir.
Ditto
And this is a downscale version: imagine that outward flow being taller than you.
If you go to the beach ask a surfer or lifeguard to point out the rip rides. It’s time well spent.
RIP Tide
U still don’t.
For those who don't know, rip "tides"/currents(as can be seen in this video on a smaller scale) tend to only be in one spot. So instead of wasting you're energy trying to swim towards the beach against the current, it's generally advised to swim _parallel_ to the beach, until you are no longer in the rip current.
Also, if you get too tired, the best way(at least that I know of) to rest in water over your head, is to lie on your back. Some people have trouble with this, especially initially or if they are already exausted(don't wait until that point!), but you can take advantage of the buoyancy of your lungs. Humans are approximately neutrally bouyant(meaning we neither sink nor rise) in water(at least at/near the surface. The deeper you go the more negatively buoyant you will be(i.e. the more likely you will be to sink.) This means it can be difficult to keep your head above water.
However, if you have air in your lungs, you will become positively buoyant(i.e. you will float.) When you breath out, you will likely start to sink. So if you can keep air in your lungs for as long as possible(obviously without holding your for too long), you will easily float on your back, especially in salt water(which is denser than freshwater, and thus easier to float in.) When you exhale, try to do so relatively quickly, and then take a deep breath. This will allow you to stay afloat, preventing you from ever becoming negatively buoyant enough for your head to dip beneath the surface.
Um an error: It should be Parallel to the beach not perpendicular. Perpendicular would come be coming straight towards the beach, while parallel would be swimming sideways to the shore which is what supposed to be done when you're trapped in a riptide.
Thank you for the rest of the stuff! It's quite informative and could really be helpful when in need. Have a great day/night!
edit: typo
It’s very very hard nearly impossible to realise one is stuck in a rip tide and also remember this advice before panicking and completely losing all the energy trying to swim back straight.
@@Hermionee-Jean-Granger Yup, I'm an idiot. Lol. Thanks, fixed it.
Bro buoyancy force does not depend on depth of water .
Not sure if the “swin against the current” was supposed to be swim parallel becouse if you swim against you will lose energy
“Watch as it takes my child! As you can see, he is trying to swim back to shore, but he can’t!”
I'm glad I'm not the only one who remembers the original uncut version from 9 years ago.
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Oho! You nearly got me there! I’m not as blind as I might seem.
@@MichaelSTaylor uncut version of what?
Can you guys explain the joke
UA-cam 8 years later:
“It’s only a minute just watch it”
i literally watched it just because it was short lmao
This was what UA-cam was once about. Uploading stuff that you thought was cool.
fine... youtube
@@Kronos0999 yup. Now it wants to control what you say, think and do. The Left is silly like that...
Ay K you were literally the only person who brought up politics on a video about waves. Ever thought that YOU are the problem, rather than ideologies?
I grew up in Florida, had been hearing ‘swim parallel’ advice literally my whole life. The first time I got stuck in a riptide, I completely forgot this advice, and honestly didn’t know I was stuck in one until it was almost too late. After swimming for an hour I could see the shore right in front of me, maybe ten feet, but couldn’t get to it for almost 15 more minutes. When I finally got to the shore, threw up water, thanked God for my life, I realized ‘ wait a minute….that was a rip tide huh’. Very humbling experience.
same thing here, i heard that advice all my life and i forgot when i got trapped in one
@@juliac3250 hard to think about anything but swimming, breathing, and not panicking right?
My wife and I, both from Ohio, were caught in a rip current together in northeast Florida. We both heard what we should do -- she swam south and I swam north, we both body surfed back to shore (less effort than swimming) not knowing what happened to the other. We laugh about it now.
I'm glad you all got back safely to the shore! 💙🧡💙
I got stuck in one. Took me 15 min to get on shore I thought my heart was gunna explode. Dont know how u lasted an hour I would have been dead
riptides are absolutely terrifying. i got caught in one about a month ago and if i called for help just a minute later my friends and i would’ve drowned. we just kept getting sucked out further and further and we were getting crushed by waves. our mistake was that we kept trying to swim against it so it tired us out. an older man pointed parallel to shore and that is what saved my friends and i. i definitely owe my life to him.
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“anyway thought that was kinda cool”
7,3 million people: agreed
Literally grew to 6,9 mil in three days lol
@@lactosetucker1027 How about 7.2 million, another 3 days later.
@@onemanarmyoma0155 jeeeez
Thank you for your helpful help.
Also 1.7k disagreed
when a ukulele player is asked to play something:
I got a ukulele three weeks ago and riptide was the first song I learned😅
it sounds good and has an easy strum pattern and chord progression, and a lot of people know it and you always want to play songs that people know.
I am TRIGGEEEREEDDDDS😂😂😂😂
@@ellen2239 I feel like that was the first song that everyone learned
@@m4rz585 it was for me, not because it was simple but because it’s my fav song XD
One day I was absolutely baked and standing in the ocean on a sandbar, facing away from the shore. Eventually I turned around and realized I had moved WAY OUT with the sandbar. I started swimming back and realized I was in a riptide. I did the thing you’re not supposed to do and panicked. I swam harder than I ever have in my life, on pure adrenaline, straight through the riptide toward the shore. For anyone who doesn’t know, you’re supposed to swim along the shoreline until you get out of the riptide. I got lucky. Somehow I powered through it and made it back to the shore. The scary part is, no one I was with even noticed what had happened. I could have drowned and no one would have known until I was long gone. Be careful out there.
I'm not a strong swimmer. I can swim but I'm very slow and tire easily. My sister was a beginner at the time and wanted to try the beach. We were being watched by our mum but we went just far enough to not touch the floor anymore. Had fun. Started trying to swim back to shore but we were twice as far as we were within 10 seconds and making zero progress. Thankfully I knew what a riptide was and after a second or two of panic I realised we were both in one and told my sister to swim with me parallel to shore. It still took us a bit further out but we got to shore fairly easily as soon as we were out of its grasp. I then educated her on what happened so now she knows what a riptide is as well and knows how to get out.
This EXACT same situation happened to me on the beaches of Rocky Point, Mexico. I was in my early teens, swimming around with family, very close to the shoreline. Suddenly, I was swept far away from my family members and no one had noticed what was happening. I was being thrown about underwater as I tried to grasp what was going on.. I tried to scream for help but no one could hear me with the sound of the waves crashing over my head. Every second, another wave would come down, with no time to gasp for air. I somehow managed to swim through it and lived. Got back to the shore and told everyone I almost died and that the ocean tried to kill me.
@@daniellanglois89 and what did everyone say when you told them ..?
@@justifiedfreely6715 No one seemed concerened, actually. They just shrugged it off. That was the last time i'll ever swim in the ocean.
@@daniellanglois89 That was my experience as well. Haven’t been back in the ocean since.
When I was really little, my childhood dog was taken by a shallow riptide similar to this. He got dragged under and popped back up a solid 100 yards out. My dad had to swim out to get him and he was ok but it was extremely lucky. Half Moon Bay has some insane riptides at high tide that have taken beach goers out a 1/4 mile. Never turn your back on the sea
Omg your first sentence made it sound like the dog died. Thank god it survived
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Is this in howick?
So THIS is what Vance Joy was singing about all these years
As soon as I saw the title it made me think of that song lol
juicy mae same
I’m crying
Lol
Came here looking for this comment!
If the riptide is that small at shore, imagine how much stronger it gets as the water gets deeper.
not to mention the amount of force it has by pushing you further out, I was almost sucked into one when i was waist deep into water, literally had to walk at like a 40 degree angle cause it was so strong in order to get out of it, i didn't know how to swim at the time either
ever seen how a tsunami works ?
@@cireez yeah, they used to amaze me when I was a little boy. I used to hella watch videos
ua-cam.com/video/CsH9Mu1vfjU/v-deo.html
They’re killers if you don’t know how to handle one, you’ve gotta relax, let it take you out a bit and swim to the left or right
If you're caught in a riptide, DO NOT struggle against it in the opposite direction when it pulls you put to the sea. You WILL tire out and drown no matter how strong or good swimmer you are, so you better not get a superiority complex despite the warning.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO is to swim sideways. You can exit the riptide this way because it's not actually very wide, and THEN you can swim to the shore.
What if you can’t swim? It’s a nightmare
@@munnirokz1
If you can't swim, you don't go into the water.
@@saagabragi6938 great idea
I 100% expected that, right after he said “this riptide isn’t that strong”, he was going to fall and get sucked in by the riptide.
0% Clickbait
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Welcome to UA-cam 2011. When it used to actually be good 😂
100% roll tide
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Stfu boomer
Swim parallel to the shore and don't panic if you're ever caught in one. 👍
swim in a 90° angle to the riptide is a better tip. Not all riptides go straight out the ocean, some go more sideways
Otherwise it’s the proverbial school of running away from rip tides
Keep looking a fixed spot on land to see how far ur going. Chances are the rip will only take you as far out as the break (deep calm water no crashing waves). Head towards the surfers back there, catch a wave back.
@Joe Mama It's just a movie trope :P
Omnio you forgot to add in “dodge a shark or two” lmao
My experience of this as a non-swimmer, in Goa India. My husband Steve (a good swimmer) and I went for a quick dip before breakfast and everything happened so fast, truly the most terrifying experience and the closest to death either of us have come ---
First wave : waist deep, hit my sides and slapped my ears
Took a couple of steps towards Steve in the Deep to avoid getting hit
Second wave: just above waist deep but slapped my other ear as i faced it sideways
Went a few steps closer to Steve
Waves 3&4 we bobbed over them and laughed as we did, as we always do
Wave 5 i saw it from a distance it seemed big, i shouted " Steve! Steve!" (I always do this when there's a big wave, it's like a joke between us), he said let's go through it instead and I said no let's jump
We jumped it and were totally fine
But suddenly i was shoulder deep
Started walking towards the shallow when we saw the next one
Wave 6 came and we jumped that one as well, but once we did i realised i was on my tippy toes and barely above water. Steve said don't worry let's go towards to the shore.
We barely went one foot and wave 7 came and crashed over our heads
Next thing i knew my feet were far from the ground and I was struggling to stay afloat
Steve told me to get on his back and he would swim us back. I did and the next wave swallowed us in again. He kicked and kicked but we only seemed to be moving further away into the deep
I couldn't tell what was happening as there was water in my eyes, ears, going into my nose and i started to feel a bit out of body
Heard him tell me it's not working and to get off him and go to his side.
A few more seconds of blurry green. But i was holding on to him tight so kept thinking he had us
Then i heard him shout 'help!' and wave. He had the look of despair on his face
No one could hear his scream
The realisation and reality hit me then and i couldn't believe we were going to drown/die this way, this easily, with our beach bags and phones right there in the distance
I remember spitting some water out of my mouth and thinking we need a higher pitch to be heard and i screamed as loudly as i could at my highest vocal pitch
A woman walking on the beach, foreign lady with black hair and a black swimsuit turned to face us
She seemed unsure about whether we were having fun or needed help. So i screamed even louder the second time and then a third. She immediately responded and started shouting for the lifeguard and coming towards us herself and then i knew we would be ok.
We held each other tight and Steve kept kicking for the both of us. The waves kept coming.
In a matter of seconds i felt a hand hold mine through the water - a lifeguard had approached us on a Jet ski diagonally from the shore. Will never forget the safety i felt in that moment. The foreign lady had also come towards us but stuck to the shallow. She shouted, close your eyes! As another wave hit us and we all went flying, thankfully, towards the shore.
Before i knew it we had been helped onto the sand and it was over
The whole thing must have been a total of five, seven minutes.
It was only later when we spoke with the lifeguard , that we had been caught in a rip tide . He taught us that if it ever happened again it is important to remember to swim in a direction parallel to the beach and not straight towards the shore.
I've lived 5 miles from Lake Michigan for 62 yrs & never saw a real-life example of a rip tide. I'm a good swimmer, but now I know what to avoid & how to get out of it if I get caught in one. Thank you!
If ever you'll get caught in a rip ride, DO NOT try to go against the current!!! Swim to the left or to the right!!! DO NOT swim forward to shore because you don't have the strength to go against the strong pull of the water back to the ocean.
Your priority once you get caught in a riptide is NOT to reach shore. Your priority is to get out of the riptide.
what if you swim with the current? wouldnt you technically beat the world record for fastest swimmer?
Im a Silly Tornado 💀
@@youcantconvinceamoronnotto7117 sounds like a challenge
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That is actually not true, swimming left/right can be just as hard as going against the current, it depends on the rip tie, so experts tend to not advise that.
The best option is to just stay a float and wait, 80/90% of rip ties move in circles, so they’ll take you back to the shore themselves.
And if you are unlucky and they don’t, you can just move parallel to the beach once they vanish, and find some waves that will
This isn’t a riptide bc there’s no lady running towards it
Down to it**
damn, hope shes not taken away to the dark side
but theres some man wanna be her left hand man tho
I think he’s loving her when she’s singing that song
He probably has a lump in his throat
If you’re ever dragged out by a rip tide the key is to swim sideways parallel to the shoreline. If that is not an option due to fatigue, allow the current to take you out, save your strength and remain calm.
Panicking and struggling against the current is what will kill you. It might seem like it takes you out miles but you can be rescued and you stand a better chance of waiting until the current dies down
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this!
if there's lifeguards at the beach, try to put your hand up & hold it up & still to attract their attention & signal you need help too & if possible, float on your back or other horizontal position, as the rip tends to be stronger below the surface, so the closer your body is to the surface, the less pull on you
To anyone reading this (IMPORTANT AS THIS COULD SAVE A LIFE) I played waterpolo and swam competitively in highschool as well as surfed since a young teenager who lived and currently lives in California. As a riptide takes you out or you are tired from swimming , eggbeat (a style of floating in the water), it is the most efficient as well as complex way for floating in the water. This is taught in waterpolo to float proficiently. I strongly encourage people to learn to eggbeat as it allows you to float in water while minimally using energy. Watch UA-cam videos and practice it safely in a pool or pay someone to teach you how to eggbeat and learn the basics of swimming. I work at a pediatric hospital and have seen too many kids either near drown or drown due to improper swimming/floating techniques as well as no one watching their kids. My oldest sister taught her kids to start floating in water even as infants, and now they love the water and swim/float effortlessly. I would advise parents to do the same for their kids, drowning can be prevented and is very common especially during the summertime. Stay safe and have fun in the water.
jorge orellana?
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please don't do this people! This person knows how to swim in POOLS, NOT the ocean, let alone in a riptide! Anything so complex you need to learn & practice it in advance should be avoided! If you can, it's always good to practice emergencies, but you should not be using techniques so complicated that they require mastering first.
I'm an Aussie, I grew up in the surf & this technique is straight out dumb for the surf anyway & particularly for a riptide! You do NOT want to be flailing your legs independently in different directions when trying to deal with currents dragging your body around in different directions under the water!
What you actually want to be doing is swimming at patrolled beaches, between flags that indicate that area has been checked & is safe. If you don't do that, or get in trouble anyway, then in a rip, you want to be getting your body as horizontal as possible, as the rip is generally stronger deeper down, so roll onto your back & float, or if you're not comfortable doing that, roll onto your side & move your arms & legs so as to keep yourself horizontal on your side. You can look up "sidestroke" if you want to, but it's just kicking your legs & moving your arms around in whatever way works for you in that surf/rough environment.
If you struggle to get into a horizontal position, use basic treading water while figuring out how to, or do whatever you are most comfortable doing in the water, from dogpaddle to freestyle or just floating, it doesn't matter, you just want to do what makes you personally feel most in control & confident. Ultimately, you are planning on moving, not staying stationary as this eggbeeting thing is designed to keep you, you want to swim parallel to the shore for about 30-50 metres & then pause & let your feet drop back down to put you in a horizontal position & see if you are now clear of the rip & if you are, then swim straight back to shore. You will likely need to swim much less than 30 metres to get clear of it, but you don't want to keep changing position & testing, just go for a good swim parralel to the shore so you know you are well & truly clear without wasting time & energy testing repeatedly.
That eggbeeter thing is designed to hold a person as high out of the water as possible, in a pool, so as to give them the best ability to catch a ball & participate in a team sport & you can get up to around chest height out of the water with that, but that is completely & utterly useless & energy wasting to attempt to do that in the ocean in an emergency, plus it's not even physically possible while being thrown around by waves & currents!
In an emergency, all you want to do is have your head out of the water, or even just to have your head intermittently out of the water to take a breath, there is no need ot be higher than that! Any extra height is just wasting energy!
If I was going to advise a technique that needs practice before doing, I would suggest just learn to float naturally in any position, but I'm not recommending that, cause you shouldn't be using techniques that need practice before they can be used. I do think it's worth pointing out though that you do not actually need ANY body movement to keep your head above water. I was able bodied as a kid, but I now use a wheelchair, with no use of my legs & limited use of my arms. I was a little nervous going back into the water after my accident, but when I got in, I relaxed, cause I found I was more than capable of floating & moving around even with very limited use of my body. I love to go to the deep end of a pool & just "stand" in an upright position, just to experience that upright position that I can't do on land. I don't use my arms or legs, I just position myself upright & relax & let the water hold me up. My mouth is only just above the water level when doing that, but it's certainly enough to breathe. If I take a deep breath in, my head & neck rises out of the water, due to the extra buoyancy of the air in my lungs, but even without air in my lungs, I still float with my mouth & nose above the water in a pool. In the ocean, even though the salt adds buoyancy, I still need to move a little to be above the water to breathe, due to the waves/rough surface, but still very little effort. That's what people should be aiming for if wanting to save energy, NOT learning special kicks designed to lift you super high. Again though, in an emergency, you do whatever you are already most comfortable with & in a rip, you focus on getting horizontal & moving as quickly as possible, parallel to the beach, so as to get yourself out of the rip before it can drag you out further & once clear, use the adrenaline you have in your body to swim/bodysurf back to shore before you get a chance to feel exhausted.
Also, if you want to teach your babies to "swim", take them to an accredited baby teacher, there are critical steps that are needed to induce breath holding reflexes before their head goes under water & if you don't know/use these, you could drown your baby! There are plenty of teachers out there that specifically teach baby water survival & they are the experts on everything to do with that
As someone who almost died in a riptide a few years ago. This is really important information.
Which beach were you at?
VeganMikedizzle
Shipwrecks beach in Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii
How far out did it start? And how far out did it pull you?
@@cpmvmaker1 yooo I was just at shipwrecks a month ago. I jumped off the rock and it was damn hard to swim back in to shore
zigghiggs Yooooo!! That cliff spot is gnarly!!
I could never do that. The ocean is too sketchy.
I was snorkeling there a few years back and it was never so hard to tread water bruh.
If I was out there for another 5 mins, I would have drowned. 💯💯
Follow me on IG homie 👌🏽 @alexmaunu
Definitely a good example for people that aren’t experienced with the ocean 👍🏻
I considered myself a very strong swimmer but about two years ago, no matter how hard I tried to swim, I was just not going anywhere because I panicked. I remembered my army buddy telling me a story if I ever was in situation like that to swim sideways. Staying calm and his advice saved my life.
@@frankdunn1813 yea same, although I was in a bit safer position because I had a surfboard... Although I still didn't expect a rip to be where it was and once I identified that I was in a rip I started paddling parallel to the beach, still took ages to get back to shore because I was paddling against wind
@@cian4380 wow. That's crazy.. be safe
Me in a landlocked state
Totally agree.
Lived by the ocean for a bit as a kid. Got pulled in by the riptide real bad. Took about what felt like a solid 20 minutes to get back to shore. Top 5 scariest moments of my life, never underestimated the ocean again after that.
What were the other 4 scariest moments?
😜😜
Some time around 8 or 9 years old, I was pulled out by one from about 15 feet away from shore. Instantly, I understood what was happening and just casually swam to the side, not thinking anything of it. Then years later learned what a riptide was and that I was supposed to be scared. I still don't see them as a huge threat unless you panic.
That's the exact thing what makes them a threat. People not knowing what to do and then panicking only increases the danger.
Ok
Ignore that-
Hahaha!!! I just wrote something similar, yours made me laugh!!!
Guess someone doesn't have to pay child support anymore
...anyways. guys riptide amiright.
Lmao
Most people at the beach: Having a good time
This guy: Teaching physics
Isn’t it more geography?
Mmmhh, I'd say its more of a mix of biology and physics, the laws of nature in the physical world and, oh wtf am I doing here, its 2 am and I work tomorrow
@@Leo25059 more like earth/environmental science really
More or less teaching geography and basic beach safety
@@danielgagnon5001 do you work in the field of biology or Physics or do you just find it interesting?
This is badass. Thank you. I didn't know what it was. I miss short and sweet, home-made UA-cam videos like these.
Everytime we're having a vacation in our Grandpa's place, our Grandpa he always tell us to be mindful and cautious of riptides. Whenever we get close to any water he'll tell us if it's a riptide or not. He always say to us how dangerous it is.
And there's this big riptide in their beach. It's really big because there's the shore ofc, then adult chest deep water, but there's another line of shore across it and it's long. Somewhere in between it is where the water escapes. And whenever we go near it, our Granfather always like shouting to not go near it.
This is why I'm really terrified to deep waters, there's just too much things that can kill you in an instant. My jellyfish sting experience still haunts me till this day, the big scar on my leg always brings me back to that horror.
We call riptides here "sabang", iirc btw.
I love the sea and going to the beach with my children but this is one of the thing that make me fear the sea.
“Running down to the riptide, taken away to the dark side” makes so much more sense now
But why does he want to be her left hand man?
@@macksonamission1784 cuz his right hand got sucked in
alexis garcia Ah yes, a very plausible explanation. Although, that still doesn’t explain why his friends are turning green.
omg
Omg yes it does
Guy on a beach: hey this would be cool to record a video of!
UA-cam Algorithm 9 years later: I agree.
This was what UA-cam was once about. Uploading stuff that you thought was cool.
Yep pretty much
*9 years
Yup fucking horrible algorithm but I fucking can’t get enough of it whenever I see an old vid I feel the need to click on it!
HotSprinkles 9 years later
"Anyways, thought that was kind of cool." Eleven years later and your great explanation of a riptide is still educating people. That's very cool!
Don’t be fooled by this loyalty + channeling loving person. Riptide is the best trident enchantment!
“It’s not really that powerful right now”
Camera guy: *Never seen again*
Just like my sis on YT
The tide got him after he stopped recording lol
lol
that's what I expected to happen in the video 😂
Camera guys always survive
so THAT’S what that guy was singing about!
I was thinking the exact same thing
I clicked on the video to see what he was singing about lolol
@@musicfreak31751 running down to the riptide
@@thewondersofawesometv1414 Taken away to the DARK SIDE.
@@AmirRazan I wanna be your left hand man
That my friend is the most informative influencing video on UTUBE, this year.
It’s PRICELESS.
Well done.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
As a Midwestern I took my new bride on a honeymoon to Montego Bay, Jamaica. Second day my wife was tanning on the beach while I was snorkeling in the Bay with a guy I met from N.Y. At around 4:30 pm we went to the mouth of the bay diving down to the bottom seeing all the different kinds of fish. Had 400 lbs. groupers, barracudas, you name it, it was like Joque Custoue! I noticed we kept getting further out and the seaweed instead of standing up was now almost flat on the sea bed pointing out to the sea. We both fought desperately. My masked was ripped off as well as one of my flippers, I knew I wouldn't make it back. I then found myself swimming to the bottom instead of up. This was the beginning of hypoxia setting in. Now I'm arguing with myself as to which direction is up and I couldn't rationalize my thoughts anymore cause of the lack of oxygen. I said to God that if I didn't get a miracle in two seconds... I'm going to gulp as much water I can to end this misery! A few times I yelled help but we were now 200 plus yards out, no one could hear our cries for help!
Just then the riptide brought me to an underwater coral reef hill just outside the bay. The bottom was loaded with sea urchins and very sharp coral. I grabbed the coral and climbed away and towards the surface while at the same time so did the guy from N.Y. I could see blood all over the water from the coral ripping up my hands.
WE MADE IT!! We were able to get out of the trench of deep water to the shallower part.
That was 35 years ago and I thank God for everyday that He gives me to continue living!
I would compare the power of that rip tide to someone pulling the plug out of a full tub of water...and your the size of an ant!
🤣🤣
Wow that's crazy to get so "man handled" you lose your sense of UP.
Whooooo
☀️☀️
a lot of people who comment stories like this just seem like they're overselling it and have a big ego
but this is a good story and you told it like it was without exaggerating. i'm glad you survived this experience
God didn't do shit. You saved yourself, with a bit of luck. Nature will kill you, and not even have the capacity to care that it just killed you.
I can hear teenage girls everywhere grabbing their ukuleles
And I can hear the spiders planning their assault on me after the rains
i feel attacked and i don't even play the uke (yet) sorry not sorry
Alexia SoRrY nOt SoRrY
Ch1llyM4n Those big and little letters are definitely more mature than the actual statement. Yes 🧐
What’s wrong with playing a Portuguese instrument??? 🤓
So thats how the lady was taken away to the dark side.
😶
I can’t decide if I love you or hate you for that.
At least she's got a left hand man
Oh I swear she is destined for the screen!
THANK YOU
once me my sister and my dad and a few other random people where caught in a riptide at the beach. my dad held up my younger sister under the water because she couldn’t hold herself up. It was so scary because all of us where struggling to swim forward!! the lifegaurds also tried reallly hard to get us all out and thankfully all of us where ok, but nevertheless it was scary
Just such a perfect video! The guy actually goes on to clearly explain what a rip tide is, follows it with the camera, and now I genuinely know what a rip tide is! Give this man an Oscar.
Once, My family went to vacation to Guatemala and decided to go to the beach. It was a bit windy but nothing looked wrong so they decided to go for a swim. When a group of locals came and said to stay out of the water because a storm was coming and it'd be dangerous to stay. The adults took their word and we went back to the hotel. But my cousins (7 & 8years old i think) wanted to look for shells and stuff. So my mom told me(15 maybe 13) to go with them and make sure they wouldn't go inside the water. I was sitting on the sandbank begrudgingly watching over my cousins picking up shit, they were knee deep in the water. I told them to get out of the water but they were all "technically, my mom said to blah blah" I didn't want to deal with it. When out of nowhere a gigantic wave forms pretty close to shore. I got up and yelled at them to "GET OUT OF THE WATER!!" while running towards them. They didn't react in time and the wave knocks them down. I try my best to run/swim/hop to them. When a second wave hits us. Now I'm forced to swim and I'm going as fast as I can, they were frantically trying to reach me but the water is starting to suck us deeper in. I manage to grabbed them. One by her blouse and one by her hair. I take a deep breath and I PRAISE THE FUCKING SUN!! I go under water to lift the two up so they can take some air and I plant the tips of my toes to slow down the rate that we were going deeper in. When the water level went a bit down a third wave hits us hard enough to push us back to shore just enough for me to keep a better footing. with better footing I started screaming like a banshee for help. An old man came running and helped me with one of my stupid cousins while I dragged the other idiot out.
And I was spoiled for the rest of vacation. If not by my mom, by my aunt's or uncles. And my cousins were grounded and kept on a "short leash".
All that happened in a flash but also in the span of years at the same time.
Dang
Similar thing happened to me. Wasn't nearly dangerous, but basically my little brother was too afraid of water where he couldn't feel the sand below. Problem is at his age, which was 5 or 6, he could only feel sand at the point where the waves keep breaking. He even turned it into a game where he would play with the waves. Well the sea ain't a good playmate and one rather big wave snuck upon him and rolled his ass, dragged him down and across the bottom then spat him out. I went to grab him but he was too panicked and confused, so by the time I picked him up from the floor, there's another big wave coming. So I grabbed him, held him with my arms crossed while he squirmed and kicked to get away and then I planted my feet and position myself to break the wave with my back. Once the wave broke I let him go and he ran to our parents. He was actually angry at me, thinking I had pranked him by not letting go sooner. My parents saw the whole thing and scolded him, saying: you idiot, your brother was rescuing you and your were squirming and making his life harder." Needless to say he was pouting and angry at the sea for betraying him. Think it was first time he understood the whole "the sea is treacherous" thing.
Thanks for share man, always take warnings seriously
Dang what a hero
@@falloutboy691 There’s something called undertow, the pulling back of water from breaking waves into the next coming one, that is actually especially dangerous for younger kids that can’t fight back against the flow. So we gotta be alert for rips, plus alert for undertow when it comes to kids.
*slips and gets pulled by the riptide*
“My time has come”
I shall succumb to call of the ocean spirit.
🤣
Ocean Man
My *tide* has come
“My tide has come”
@Cowlan A little knowledge is dangerous. Many a people have been surprised at how far riptides could take them. Just because you float doesn't mean it won't take you out of sight of the shore if it wants to.
Best depiction and explanation I’ve ever seen of a riptide! It really made it clear and easy to understand how dangerous these things can be. Thank you!
My dad nearly drowned off the coast of Malibu while he was on leave when serving in the US Army, because he’d been caught by and pulled under by a riptide. Fortunately, the public swimming area had lifeguards and one of them saw the whole thing happen and quickly went into Hasselhoff Mode and saved my father from being pulled all the way out to sea.
My Dad developed an odd form of aquaphobia after this happened, and he never went swimming ever again for the rest of his life, not even once. And not even when I was 16, when he had an above-ground swimming pool put in into our backyard-he never got into it, ever. He also would only take a bath with no more than 2” of water in the bathtub.🙄
@Leontinus Did I say or did I imply that it wasn’t “understandable”? Or did you think that simply because I ended my last sentence with the “eyeroll” emoji?
Whatever the reason, my Dad is deceased now, so, here’s a bit of advice:
Always remember to look both ways before you go fuck yourself.
I mean, he could've just videoed it but he gave explanations. Truly a hero.
Videoed it
@Hi Bye okay
@Hi Bye indeed all is okay
UA-cam comments just get more exaggerated over time. Man this guy is a real hero for this one 🦸♂️
@Hi Bye PLS IM WHEEZING 😭
My brother got caught in a riptide once and was getting pulled out to sea. I went in after him not knowing what a riptide was but after grabbing his arm and struggling to try and beat the current back to shore, we guessed that if we couldnt beat the current to get to shore in that area, we would just swim horizontally to the beach till we found somewhere that had a weaker current. We guessed right, swam about 30 to 40 feet away from where we were getting dragged in, and the waves themselves pushed us back to shore. That’s how we survived getting pulled to sea and how we learned how riptides work. We were like 17 and 18 and there were no lifeguards at the beach.
How long were you stuck for?
@@widdasiddiq8810 The whole ordeal lasted under 10 minutes. Maybe like 7 minutes total?
@@xlRainlx Wow! That must've felt like forever.
@@widdasiddiq8810 Honestly, not really. We weren't panicking, more just trying to figure out how to get back. The realization that we were in significant danger did not hit us until after we got out of the water. Then we were like, "Wait... we could have been dragged out to sea and drowned. That's how it happens and we just went through it." Coincidentally enough, if I remember correctly, that actually happened to another teenager that same month but he wasn't so lucky, unfortunately.
Yeah, I did remember correctly. www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-may-19-me-31793-story.html This happened about an hour away from where I live that same month. I remembered hearing about it like a week later from our incident.
This video might be 11 years old, and has 11 million views(!!!), but that is about the best demonstration of a rip tide as you can get. Very, very well filmed and explained.
It’s simple help like this you tell people but won’t listen to you until they almost die. Great visual 🙌
rest in peace, tide 😔 ✊
F's in the replies
lmao
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My mom got stuck in a riptide when she was in high school and almost died. Luckily, my uncle is a beast of nature and strong as hell and was able to get her back to shore while he was in a riptide, too.
Thank God you have him lol
Damn how dod your uncle do that? Did he swim parallel to the shore or what?
Copycat he’s Hercules bro
i can imagine him flexing with his muscles for some reason.....
Nonce
1:09 "i thought that was kinda cool."
very cool sir. very cool.
When I was like 12 years old or so, I was in what some call “the under tow” similar to rip tide.. out there with my uncle that we hardly ever saw. He was so direct and stern, swim sideways! It’s the only way to get out! Be calm and swim sideways! As he lead the way. Pretty crazy stuff
“Not dying on my watch, boy!”
It's under tow. 🙂
You never know, maybe this man may have saved a life with this educational video
But he never said that you have to swim parallel to shore to find a place where the current isn't pulling you away from shore, then you can swim back in.
@@gmc9753 But seeing WHY you have to swim parallel to shore helps. Might even be intuitive seeing how fast the riptide is headed back into the sea, and the calm water right next to it. Honestly I was confused how riptides worked until this video, now it makes complete sense.
I know and yes he probably already has!
Dammit you are definitely stalking me (like how the heck can you be everywhere I am?)
Go outside dude
"This spot in here is where people typically have trouble." *walks into that exact spot*
K4 Josiah this was obviously not a strong riptide, he even said the dangerous ones occur further out...
@@farisalguthami5621 hence it's a joke. can't believe people would think like that in a real situation lmao
@@gustofing this is UA-cam ofc there's going to be replies like that to get likes
Can't blame him,
@K4 Josiah
Of course it's a fucking joke, no shred of doubt about that.
Lost one of my old baseball coaches because of a riptide, he was saving a woman’s life and in return saved her and lost his. He was a true hero, I miss him so much to this day.
There’s actually a similar comment in the comment section where the commenter saved someone in a riptide but nearly died and thought he was gonna die himself. It’s sad your coach couldn’t make it
@@Jk-ey7mp thank you! I appreciate the sentiment. He’s in a better place!
When I was probably eight ish years old, me, my mom and my little sister went to Clearwater beach FL (I lived there for 7 years) with my aunt and my two little cousins. We went all the time.
The boys were in floaties and I had a boogie board. My aunt was trying to bring us to the sandbar she went to like 10 minutes before. She was slightly ahead with my sister when she screamed for us to go back. The sandbar was gone and a riptide started to pull us all out. Even on my board, it was exhausting trying to make it back to the beach. My mom held onto my cousins behind me (who were fine because of their floaties) and my aunt had my sister. We made it back after like 20 minutes and warned a family who were going to go out themselves. No one had seen us struggling to make it back as far as we knew.
Later my aunt admitted that she thought my little sister was going to drown because she could barely hold her body above the water and kept swallowing it. And my mom does not like swimming in the ocean anymore. 😬
0:56 Nemo is just swimming by
This should have more likes lol
🤡🐟
Yet Nemo's dad is searching for him😔
It's just trash ..
@@majesticjelly1702 It's actually seaweed lol.
Not gonna lie, I've never really known what a riptide is until now! Cheers for this mate
Of course this is a small one, they can be much larger and harder to spot. The ocean just loves trying to kill things.
Same here
I need a trident now
almost drowned in a riptide that ended up reeling back, trapping me under, and slamming me to the ground repeatedly. I had to be dragged out because I couldn't stand or swim. it was like the ocean became sentient and was deadset on killing me lol
edit: also wanna add that the waves themselves became very violent before I could get out of the water, so I ended up getting stuck
I thought it was a clothing brand
Swim parallel to the beach and don’t panic. If you panic you will begin to exert yourself too much and burn all your energy. Just keep calmly swimming parallel and you’ll soon be free of the pull. 🤙🏻
thanks for the clear explanation. I always wondered what a rip tide was and you explained it perfectly.
I almost died in a riptide when I was a kid. There was a hurricane about a day away offshore, and we were swimming in the Atlantic in North Carolina. It was a sunny day. I had been swimming around with my back to shore, and when I turned around it was a lot farther away than I expected it to be. I started trying to swim back, but it seemed like it kept getting farther. I yelled for help but nobody was close enough to hear me or look my way. I vaguely remembered something about swimming sideways, so I did that, but by that time I was already worn out. I tried resting by floating on my back, but the waves kept crashing over me and getting water in my nose and mouth. I thought I was going to throw up from exertion. I kept swimming, very slowly, toward shore. Finally, I reached a point where my toes just barely touched sand. I worked the rest of my way in on tiptoes, using the sand to pull myself forward as my arms failed me. By the time I reached the shore I was totally spent and I blacked out right there. When I finally had the energy to get up, I looked for my family and found them way farther down on the beach. They didn’t seem worried about me and when I told them I almost drowned they didn’t take me seriously. It was such a bizarre and lonely feeling having gone through that with no witnesses and nobody acknowledging the seriousness of it. I was 11-12 years old when this happened.
Thank you for sharing
@austin flanders Where's the apology after calling him a liar? You're pretty rude, man!
@Geologick That must have been awful! To have that happen & your family not believe you? I can't even imagine how traumatic & hurtful that must have been. You're very lucky to have made it out.
@@nihalr_ Oh good old uncle Joe
I know that feeling. Your parents always tell you to tell them anything and they will always be there for you but when you tell them something important they either don’t believe or don’t care and for me I was told by my dad he will always be there for me I’m 16 now and he’s trying to kick me out of the house because of something my mom supposedly done but he’s a liar and I can’t believe shit he says
Growing up near the coastal area, the first lesson we were taught before even stepping into the water is "fear the ocean, because it doesn't care about you". This lesson stayed with me even to this day, and it pains me when people suffer from tidal accidents (and even casualties). Nature is not something you want to overestimate your confidence, and put your life on the line to "test the water".
My first lesson was “never go in waters deeper than your hips.” One: I grew up in Recife, a city in Brazil thats known for shark attacks, and going in hip deep water is asking for a shark to attack you. Two: in my experience, knee deep water is very easy to fall in. And the waves are strong, at least in Recife
@@2kmichaeljordan438 shark attacks are rare where you are talking about
@@2kmichaeljordan438 legal.
On the coastal area I grew up in we aren't taught anything. If you get swept by the ocean then oh well.
I was taught never to put my back to the ocean 🌊
wow so great of youtube to show me this years later
I appreciate that you not only posted a video but used it as an opportunity to educate others. Mad respect for that bc you could’ve easily just posted it but taking the time to explain it just outta the blue as you saw it is really awesome
If you ever get caught in a riptide, swim to the side to get out of it before trying to swim back to shore.
Drago Plays Xbox Exactly.
Thanks for explaining.
Does that really work?? What if its a massive riptide and you loose power yourself?
Can you do it though _diagonally_ ?
General Prodigy Riptides aren’t generally that wide, and if you got tired by swimming to the side, you wouldn’t have the energy to swim all the way back to shore if you let it take you all the way out before moving to the side. Plus by moving to the side you have a chance of being pulled toward the shore by the side of the riptide.
This guy : "And this spot right here is where people typically are in trouble."
Also this guy : *just casually walks in*
He ain't no coward 😔✊
@@Ash-dj5ph thats right, momma didn't raise no pussy.
Riptides don’t got shit on gator! Gator don’t play!
It is ankle deep
@@m.b.82 that was the joke lol
Perfectly explained. No music, no nonsense added to the video.
Thank you for posting. It is this sort of potentially life-saving content UA-cam is great for and, in my opinion, the main reason it was set up in the first place - to inform and educate.
fun fact: riptides are dangerous
interesting
Wait really?
I mean it pulls you back to the sea, there are only 2 ways to escape it:
1. If you're strong enough, swim to the side (horizontally)
2. If you're not strong enough but quite durable, just let it pulls you until you reach the end (quite dangerous, but again if you can fight the sea waves while being pulled to it, you'll be fine), then try to swim to the side then head back to the land.
But most importantly, never fight the riptide once you get pulled (in short word, swim vertically back). It's a waste of energy and you'll be exhausted before you even reach the end.
I know this because I've experienced it and luckily i was able to escape, while i was swimming vertically, i just realized this is futile so my observation told me to either swim horizontally, or reach the end of it.
not so In-Shane at all it was sarcasm bro
Esther Qin so? It's good to know
“There isn’t much power here” Gets sucked away instantly.
See I was waiting for that to happen
Him: “there isn’t much power here”
Mother Nature: “hold my beer”
He didn't get sucked away tho
that’s the point
@@MANiRo5OobittO kinda late but r/whooosh
A tip for if anyone ever gets caught in a riptide, don't try to swim against the current swim across it until you get out of the riptide thn swim back inland.
Doing this is not only more effective in getting out of the riptide, but it stops you from getting fatigues as quickly which is what leads to many cases of people drowning in such circumstances.
Stay safe out there everyone.
That's all great and correct information thank you but one correction it's not called a Riptide it's called a rip current
I've been stuck in a few riptides, but was lucky enough to have known about them my whole life and known how to get out of them.
I will show my children. Thank you
Conner I'm a huge fan
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Heyyy my guy what u doing hereby
Connor come back to India
@@gravinboginagis6568 my guy you’re cracked at Fortnite 😂👌💯
“Thought that was kinda cool” why was that so wholesome to me?? Like same random dude thank you for sharing
Your name tho lol
I was thinking of that too. Hearing that made me soft.
Hello I am your 1K like. Have a great day.
@@lzandae3735 hehe yes
I got to that part and was just 🥰😊 he’s so informative and also adorable ☺️🌊 this was a great video anyways because of the detail and the great example but that brought it home 💓
This guy is 100% secretly my science teacher
Perfect 2000s video. Informative, straight to the point, shot on an old phone with horrific audio and video quality.
They scare me so bad. My dad saved a girl’s life because no one was watching her and she got caught in one. She didn’t speak English but he could tell she was so grateful
Tell your dad I said thx
eddie_taco 23 bruh
Bell Iron Fist but he could tell she was so grateful lol, sounds like a joke
@@Potato-no3bd you don't have to you understand the language to tell if someone is grateful lol.
I was scared of dentists and the dark
UA-cam algorithm: “Fuck it, honestly he’ll just watch anything at this point.”
"Honestly those retards will type the same thing everytime now"
Me trying to go to sleep. Brain: you going to beaches 3 times a year but ur watching this shit rn.
“honestly this is the 7th time I’ve seen this comment”
Me: "You're damn right I will."
I know, right. It's so fucking weird that a recommendation service will...wait for it...recommend videos to you. 🤯🙄
Best video/explanation I've seen. Better than the professional ones with all the graphics and arrows. LOL! I could never understand what the arrows are pointing at. This is a great video. Thank you.
This is tremendous. For the first time in my life I actually understand what a riptide is. Thanks!
* 8 years later *
UA-cam: hey wanna learn about a rip tide?
Me: um sure
How original
@@L9nexah hOw OrIgInAl
@@drabberfrog what
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ZeAnonymusAnonym how original to have a pic of the vendetta mask, you must be a frequenter of 4chan and aren’t to be messed with
remember if you do get caught in a riptide “DO NOT SWIM STRAIGHT TOWARDS THE SHORE” make sure to swim to its sides, so you can escape the rip tide... (it is a losing battle against a rip tide, no matter how good of a swimmer you are)
Swim sideways till you're out of the riptide, then towards the shore.
Yep. Trying to fight it is just going to leave you exhausted as you get swept further and further out. Swimming parallel to the shore you will still get pulled out some, but you’ll get out of the riptide with plenty of energy left to swim back to shore.
If you’re a really good swimmer U can beat it but most people prob can’t
Back when i was having a high physique and being a high endurance swimmer with excellent stamina i didn't know about rip tides but fool me i got into one and i swam against it for alot of time, took me more than 10 minutes to get to the shore and when i got there with no breathe left and laying on the shore completely exhausted. This lifeguard comes to me and says" hey, please avoid going into the water as there are rip tides" no shit man. I was literally the only one in water and the beach was kinda empty
@@ahmed17182 lol I had to rescue this guy that was stuck in a rip and I just swam straight to shore cause it wasn’t that far, but holy shut that was a mistake I had to swim with 100% effort for like 4 minutes nonstop when I coulda just swam sideways😂
I was searching for this video for more than a year. Thanks to YT.
So cool to actually be able to SEE the riptide formation! Thanks!
Me : UA-cam play Riptide by Vance Joy
UA-cam: Puts this in my recommended
FRRRRR
This is exactly the reason I'm here
Same
Lmao that song has been playing in my head since I watched this video
I'm a turtle You're the magician's assistant in their dreams 💭
This guy : "And this spot right here is where people typically are in trouble."
Might as well walk in there
He means that when a rip tide is happening underwater, that is where people usually get stuck. It's not dangerous if it's 4 inches deep on sand.
@@yeehawtomahawk kinda missed the joke there
Lol
@@Stalls. Or there was none to begin with ;3
@@dazais_advocate YO WHAT
This is a great addition to my collection of fun facts that I give my wife on a daily basis
Short and sweet and straight to the point... Thanks for posting.... 👍
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UA-cam: here ya go bud.
Me: interesting
Unlike most other recommended videos, this one is actually useful as it shows a riptide which can occur to anyone swimming in sea
Oh look, an unoriginal comment. How interesting.
Maybe you were listening to the Vance Joy song.
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Whats wrong with that? Rip tides went extinct in 8 years?
False, it's when you throw your enchanted trident while it's raining.
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No that’s channeling
@@westonbrock8252 shush
Bruh 🤣
I love the visual, thank you!!
This was surprisingly informative of a concept I sort of knew about but never truly understood. Thank you!
Fun fact: A rip always looks like the safest place to swim because there are a lot fewer waves
This makes sense but would never have occurred to me, thanks for the really really important safety tip!
@@ItsAsparageese also make sure to swim between the flags so you don’t get mowed over by a surfboard. It’s also where life guards are more likely to see you if you’re in danger
@@nafarisk Thank you! I'm from Colorado so even though I've been in the ocean a couple of times, I still joke that it's a hoax people use to troll us landlocked states lol, that's how unfamiliar with it I still truly am XD but I want to spend more time around it in the future so this kind of direct clear safety info is super helpful
@@ItsAsparageese I’m from Australia and practically grew up at the beach. Each year in primary school (I think America calls it grade school) we’d have lifeguards come in and talk about beach safety
@@nafarisk That's awesome! Reminds me of how when I was in grade school (we also call part of grade school "primary school" in some areas up to like 3rd grade, btw! 😀 ) we regularly had special instruction like that about fire safety and prevention, especially since back then we were in a hardcore drought cycle lol
swim sideways! i went too far out when i was like 11 and was caught it one but i remembered to swim sideways. i’m not sure what would’ve happened but it might’ve saved my life
ummmm just a wild guess here, but you would have been pulled out to sea....
Yes. Swim parallel to the shore, not away from the shore, to escape the channel of the rip tide. Good reminder.
I got caught in one once too. Very scary and exhausting. Swallowed lots of water trying to get back and almost didn’t make it. Also remembered about the swimming parallel and eventually was able to start moving back towards shore. I don’t go in past my waist now and probably forever. Lol. Ocean is no joke.
I was a stupid kid. I got caught and rode it out, thinking that it was just a weird wave. Saw my sister a little ways away and swam over to her, coincidentally swimming parallel to the shore
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I got caught in a riptide off Cape Hatteras, NC as a teenager. Was out swimming in the surf and suddenly looked up and I was almost 200 yards from the shoreline and going out. I tried swimming straight back, to no avail. I kept cool and remembered to conserve energy for staying afloat, but I had no idea how I was gonna get back. Thank God my father, a Coastie who grew up near the ocean, was there. He swam out to me with a boogie board and guided me back (swimming diagonally toward shore, to get out of the current by going sideways). I am alive today because of God's grace and my father's actions. I'm a Coastie now myself, and once had to respond to a distress call from a guy whose girlfriend was swept out to sea while they were swimming off Long Beach, WA (after dark). There are signs there about every 75 yards warning of deadly rip currents. Tragically, we were too late. Read and heed the signs, and know what to do before doing anything in the water. This shit is no joke.
all my life ive heard the term riptide now for the first time ever I understand what it is I appreciate that