I’m more like a porpoise than a person, and when I was a kid I used to seek out rip currents as they were the easiest way to get far from shore, which is where I liked to be in those days.

I feel bad for those people. I’ve always just been comfortable in water. A rip current to me was great fun. And anyway, how do you have trouble treading water in the ocean? It’s hard not to float since it’s so dense. And it sounds as if at least two of them had boogie boards. What?

I truly don’t mean to be a jerk but I can’t understand. I am glad the people were rescued but a rip current is only dangerous if you battle it. When I was young and lithe and relatively fit, I’d use those to swim sometimes nearly a mile out. I didn’t measure but I could barely see the people on shore so it had to have been about that far.