I grew up on the beach here in So Cal. A few years ago, I was ‘rescued’ by a lifeguard from a rip tide. I didn’t even realize I was caught, and thought I was moving forward towards the shore, but I was not. When he pulled me free from the tide, then I recognized what was happening. I was not going down, but I was getting tired and going nowhere.
The first guy my son pulled in,his kid came running up and said thank for saving my daddy!
I was more worried about lightning than anything else, we have some bad storms once in a while and those LG shacks are high on the beach,anyway he went back to college in the fall so I was kinda of relieved.