Some currents are much stronger than others and knowing how to swim when you’re in one can save your life. Swimming sideways allows you to get out of that narrow channel of water.
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - A great day at the beach could end in devastation if you don’t know what to do in a rip current.“They can be dangerous if they’re a non-swimmer or a weak swimmer, or even if they can swim, they don’t know what’s happening and they feel themselves getting pulled out to sea and they panic and they try to fight it,” Wil Spivey, Beach Safety Director for Panama City Beach Fire Rescue, said.
“If you feel yourself getting pulled out to sea and that’s not where you want to go, I recommend you swim sideways along the beach,” Spivey said.Spivey says a big part of a lifeguard’s job is to educate the public on when they should and should not enter the Gulf.“We do have the text-alert system,” Spivey said. “Our crews are out trying to prevent problems and incidents and to educate the public.”Yellow means there is a medium hazard in place.
If you try to swim during double red flags you could not only get hit with a fine but also risk your life.They also say swimming out to save someone in a dangerous rip current could put yourself in danger as well.Copyright 2022 WJHG. All rights reserved.
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