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@marcas I remember getting caught in a rip current around 8 years old, when I lived in Florida. I wasn't dragged underwater, thank God. But while playing some aquatic variant of "tag", I suddenly found myself moving *very* quickly out to sea, away from my friends. My friends went to shore to tell my mother, while I hauled ass about 100 feet parallel to the shore, because I had been given this lesson about a billion times in school and in scouts. Then I went in to shore. I was a little tired, but okay. Mom met me at the shore, and she seemed freaked out. I didn't quite grasp why; I had just done what I'd been told to do in that situation, *of course* I was safe. I had no idea rip currents were so dangerous until I was quite a bit older.