Any youtube instructors like Travis Eliot?

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Originally Posted by bzar

I was stuck in an undertow when I was a kid. my uncle and several other adults were going out to pick up a fishing net that he set out the night before. it was maybe 7 AM or so. they were holding on to a floating inner tube with a piece of wood on the bottom. it's used to carry the net back in once they've retrieved it. I thought I could swim to them and grab onto the inner tube.

I was dragged under and thank God my uncle saw me. he pulled my arm and took me back to shore. I gulped lots of sea water during that episode. you can't see it from above the water at all - that's the danger of it.

I'm told that if you inadvertently get pulled into an undertow, you should not fight it but let it run it's course. I don't know if I would have the courage and patience to do that.

glad he survived it.

Me too & thank goodness you did too!