Knowing how to swim could save your life, as could knowing when not to.
From:cool: the National Park Service's Morning Report:
On August 14th, off-duty surfguard Kelly Werner and off-duty visitor use assistant James Keena were involved in an after hours rescue of a family at Jacob Riis Park. Both off duty employees were fully dressed. Werner and another park visitor saved the lives of a mother and child while Keena assisted with the rescue. Werner returned to the surf after the second rescue to rescue the father. Keena then proceeded to give CPR to the victim until medical help arrived.
Riis Park, an ocean beach near Breezy Point, is in the Jamaica Bay Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area. It is estimated that 9 out of 10 visitors to the beaches in the New York area cannot swim."
Another recent NPS Morning Report noted that 3 swimmers were caught in a rip tide off Cape Hatteras, NC. Other swimmers managed to bring them to shore, but one died.
Living close to the water here in North Myrtle Beach it is very important to respect the water. I have two children that were put in swimmng lessons at a very young age for that very reason. As tourist season comes in, story after story of someones bad fortune playing in the water plaster our six o'clock news. I consider myself a good swimmer and am very comfortable in the water but I have had the current take me right down the beach and there was nothing I could do about it.
Living close to the water here in North Myrtle Beach it is very important to respect the water. I have two children that were put in swimmng lessons at a very young age for that very reason. As tourist season comes in, story after story of someones bad fortune playing in the water plaster our six o'clock news. I consider myself a good swimmer and am very comfortable in the water but I have had the current take me right down the beach and there was nothing I could do about it.
