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Originally Posted by #^&#^&#^&#^&mont
probably the best advice aside from wearing a belt is not to panic until you can't breathe....
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thats very good advice!!,,,when i first got to california ...having not had access much, to say horseneck beach or rhody beaches (with surf) ....i went body surfing quite often until one day i stupidly got caught in the undertow...and what a nasty feeling that is...i'll tell yeah...first your having fun catching waves and its exhilerating as hell, then, you get up on a wave and it slams you down and then sucks you back out underwater....and your first instinct is to fight the ocean and swim with all your might to reach the surface...but its better to relax and not struggle so hard and wait...and the ocean will bowl you up the beach like a round rock. i was able to just wait it out and ended up getting scraped up....sure, but i survived where most people would've sucked in water in a PANIC and died.Having practiced holding my breath underwater for years saved my own life.When i ocasionally swin in a deep pool i jump in and swin to the bottom and take a nap....much to the horror of the life guards
