I'm in the kitchen, now what do i do?

>easier to save an unconscious person…

This was a solid reality check in rescue training. Every potential rescuer needs to first know that someone potentially drowning will try to climb whatever they get their hands on… including the rescuers head. If there is no floatation device, rescuers have to be insanely careful.

I was drunk on a 10 dollar boogie board in Hawaii, getting sucked under fighting for my life, only to make it back to the surface to be laughed at by a bunch of locals watching. Good times.

Same.

I used to be a great swimmer, and I’d swim in the ocean all the time. But as soon as I went under slammed my head into a rock (thank god for helmets) it became rrreeeaaaalll apparent how many years ago those beach days were.

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Save it for the judge handcuff-emoji

Was that the three in England?

It’s very common because the drowning person is often desperate and acts against their own benefit. They will grab onto their would-be savior and push them under. It’s why lifeguards will always try to approach from behind and with their can/floatation device between them and the drowning person. If you fight a lifeguard out there, they’re trained to back away. It’s easier to save an unconscious person than a flailing person.

Just a reminder, if the ocean is pushing you out to sea, don’t swim against it. Swim sideways along the shore until you don’t feel that push out to sea and THEN swim in to the shore. It’s usually not further than 30-40 yards/meters before you’re out of that rip and usually much less.

Damn, that's scary. Glad you both are okay.

Soooo disappointing!

Force these profit machines to use sails and solar by 2028. Watch Innovation bloom and things change in time.

"Carbon neutral by 2050", WTF is that weak ass soup?!

Have you watched toy story?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2O:_Just_Add_Water

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Damn someone beat me to it 😂

You can normally see the difference in the details. The 2 girls in the middle have softer facial features while the women on the outer left and outer right have a more defined face.

It's the top of what kiwis call a chully bun.

Someone buy those ladies a beer

One pair went back in time to save their younger selves

Apparently it’s also slang for a boogie board. Not sure if they actually used a cooler lid or a boogie board.

The funny thing is that the two middle girls are preteens and the two others are adults. They all look like they could be in class together though.

Fitness starts in the kitchen for me, too.

Fitness whole stack of pancakes in my mouth, that is.

Once on a hike down a river we found a dog skull about a half mile from where we started. On the way back we found a plaque dedicated to a man who drowned trying to save his dog from drowning. Could have been a coyote skull, but still.

Went whitewater rafting with my wife a little while ago and we got tossed from the raft after going over a waterfall. It took every bit of my panicked strength to get up and grab the raft, and my first thought as soon as we got to shore was that thank god my wife is a strong swimmer and in good shape- because there’s no way I could save her and myself at the same time and that thought scared the shit out of me.

So happy to see that this is the top comment!