Sounds like good advice but not in the “washing machine” I was in! It was fast and furious. God alone saved me, I am sure of that. I wasn’t ready to leave the world at that time.
I don’t live in HI any more and if I did, I’d swim in the safe small wave beaches. I’m now closer to 60 than - well, than 59, and haven’t swam in for ten years.
But looks like good advice for a lake or pond.
Sounds as if you were in a jetty. Those are tough. Been rafting a couple of times. Some people would actually get off the boats and walk to the park. One couple walked through poison oak. She was pretty bad off. My younger brother, who was/is a water rat got her out of the water.
Been in the water most of my life. My mom, believe it or not, was the oldest lifeguard in the U.S. about ten years ago at the Newport Beach WYMCA. We’re all swimmers.