even good swimmers can drown in a rip tide. the tide is too strong and too long, it tires a person out. what i read to do in case you ever get caught in a rip tide is to swim left or right out of the direction you are being pulled to get out of it. then once out of it, swim towards shore.
I should have clarified--eventually, his son was safely rescued.
He actually told authorities who had come to the rip-current he was caught in to save his son before saving him.
That must've been some violent water. Did Mr. Gaspard know how to swim?
even good swimmers can drown in a rip tide. the tide is too strong and too long, it tires a person out. what i read to do in case you ever get caught in a rip tide is to swim left or right out of the direction you are being pulled to get out of it. then once out of it, swim towards shore.
I don't know. It was a rip-current off the coast of Italy.