It's Official

[Chin Diesel]

Both my kids have sworn off open water swimming or going on a boat for life.

Well done Discovery Channel.

 

[noeynox]

I don't know about the Discovery Channel but three years ago I nearly drowned when I got pulled out by a riptide trying to rescue my wife. We were at a surfers beach in Puerto Rico, and she has to be the only one to move past the crowd of people and start doggy paddling. She couldn't go paddle back, I went out to get her and got pulled out. I'm a mediocre swimmer at best. I seriously considered a divorce except she got pregnant on that trip.

And I'm freaked out by the water now. I think about our honey moon in maui, and I can't believe the chances I took. I literally had no idea about rip tides sucking you out like that.

 

[Sky ball]

I don't know about the Discovery Channel but three years ago I nearly drowned when I got pulled out by a riptide trying to rescue my wife. We were at a surfers beach in Puerto Rico, and she has to be the only one to move past the crowd of people and start doggy paddling. She couldn't go paddle back, I went out to get her and got pulled out. I'm a mediocre swimmer at best. I seriously considered a divorce except she got pregnant on that trip.

And I'm freaked out by the water now. I think about our honey moon in maui, and I can't believe the chances I took. I literally had no idea about rip tides sucking you out like that.

That happened to me in PR too in 1978. San Antonio Beach I believe.

 

[RioDog]

Hunh- I thought the OP was talking about "Shark Week". Discovery channel in Brazil is having shark week this week.

 

[jbdphi]

Both my kids have sworn off open water swimming or going on a boat for life.

Well done Discovery Channel.

Don't you live in Florida? Given the preponderance of alligators and poisonous water-based snakes, I think that's damn smart.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Hunh- I thought the OP was talking about "Shark Week". Discovery channel in Brazil is having shark week this week.

I was referring to Shark Week and the Megalodon show but who am I to dictate where a thread goes.

As for living in Florida I'll take salt water over fresh water every day because of cottonmouths and gators.

That being said rip currents are no joke and they kill every summer. Victims are almost always drunk guys from Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee or Ohio.

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[BlueMAB]

I'm still skeptical of those videos/photos.

Only because I don't want them to be true because then my wife is right, sharks can sink boats and eat people and Jaws wasn't just a movie.

 

[RioDog]

I was referring to Shark Week and the Megalodon show but who am I to dictate where a thread goes.

As for living in Florida I'll take salt water over fresh water every day because of cottonmouths and gators.

That being said rip currents are no joke and they kill every summer. Victims are almost always drunk guys from Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee or Ohio.

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Yup. In Maine we called them "Flatlanders". And it wasn't even rips that got them- just big waves. These tourists would come to the Maine coast with no clue about or respect for the power of the ocean. They'd get too close to the water and a really big wave would get them. 2 or 3 a year.

My scuba diving buddy from Maine, while an avid and brave sportsman, has an neurotic fear of sharks. It used to take him a month to get over Shark Week.

 

[whaler11]

I'd rather face a dozen sharks than one poisonous snake. I wouldn't look at houses in parts of Glastonbury.

 

[Srqhusky]

Just so everyone knows. Riptide swim parallel to the shore.

With that said when scuba diving my favorite thing to see beside the fish and corals is a sea turtle. Most thrilling was a six foot bull shark. With that said I feel a lot more comfortable under the water with them than above where u can't see them.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

I'd rather face a dozen sharks than one poisonous snake. I wouldn't look at houses in parts of Glastonbury.

You are out of your mind. You can back away or even run from a poisonous snake.

You are not out swimming a shark. You are in their world.

 

[BlueMAB]

I'd rather face a dozen sharks than one poisonous snake. I wouldn't look at houses in parts of Glastonbury.

What if the shark was big enough to bite whale in half? Big enough to capsize a 40 foot (or bigger) boat?

 

[Srqhusky]

I worked in a hospital for ten years. Never saw anybody bitten by a snake that wasn't trying to pick it up.

 

[Hoophound]

I'd rather face a dozen sharks than one poisonous snake. I wouldn't look at houses in parts of Glastonbury.

Lol. I did the same thing! Damn rattlers.

 

[John]

Both my kids have sworn off open water swimming or going on a boat for life.

Well done Discovery Channel.

Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women.

Or women during that time of month Code name "Shark Bait".

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[CL82]

I was a lifeguard at a camp when Jaws came out. (Yes, I know I am ancient.) People would not swim in the lake. Many were skeptical about the pool.

 

[huskymedic]

I worked in a hospital for ten years. Never saw anybody bitten by a snake that wasn't trying to pick it up.

Only time I saw it was when someone was hiking down on "cliff path" and went to put their hand down on a rock for leverage down and placed it right onto a cooperhead who struck mid-forearm.

 

[CTMike]

What if the shark was big enough to bite whale in half? Big enough to capsize a 40 foot (or bigger) boat?

Or what if the sharks were sucked up in to tornados spawned from a huge hurricane off the Cali coast?? SHARKNADO!

 

[whaler11]

You are out of your mind. You can back away or even run from a poisonous snake.

You are not out swimming a shark. You are in their world.

Yes I know it's stupid and hyperbole but snakes scare the #### out of me and sharks don't.

 

[BlueMAB]

Or what if the sharks were sucked up in to tornados spawned from a huge hurricane off the Cali coast?? SHARKNADO!

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/videos/shark-week-2013-videos.htm

Watch the "Megalodon Attacks a Boat?" video and "Evidence of a 50-ton Megalodon?"

Fake? Maybe. But nowhere near as ridiculous as sharknado.

 

[upstater]

Was in Greece swimming in very salty buoyant water for a month with my wife and 4 and 7 year olds. Took a Catamaran one day and swam through deep water caves with them, daughters with swim vests (fabric with foam). We swam like that for a month, and then the last night before flying back, we swam in our hotel pool. My 7 year old was doing the backstroke (no swim vest) across a long deep fresh water pool when she bumped into someone, turned, panicked, bobbed up and down, went under. I dove in and grabbed her and struggled to swim back. I'm 45 and although not in great shape, I do regularly exercise. Shocking to see I can't swim now like I used to. Once pulled my wife away from a current taking us out quickly in Cancun. That was 15 years ago. If the same thing happened now, I'd drown.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

I'm still skeptical of those videos/photos.

Only because I don't want them to be true because then my wife is right, sharks can sink boats and eat people and Jaws wasn't just a movie.

You have a wife who isn't always right? Does she have a sister?

 

[noeynox]

I was saved by a surfer. Had so much adrenaline pumping I stepped on one of those sea urchin
Things with the spikes and didn't feel it till hours later.

Sorry didn't mean to hijack the thread, just sharing my fear of the water that's become all too real. Whenever I went somewhere on vacation the first thing i did was jump in the ocean. Not anymore.

 

[CL82]

Was in Greece swimming in very salty buoyant water for a month with my wife and 4 and 7 year olds. Took a Catamaran one day and swam through deep water caves with them, daughters with swim vests (fabric with foam). We swam like that for a month, and then the last night before flying back, we swam in our hotel pool. My 7 year old was doing the backstroke (no swim vest) across a long deep fresh water pool when she bumped into someone, turned, panicked, bobbed up and down, went under. I dove in and grabbed her and struggled to swim back. I'm 45 and although not in great shape, I do regularly exercise. Shocking to see I can't swim now like I used to. Once pulled my wife away from a current taking us out quickly in Cancun. That was 15 years ago. If the same thing happened now, I'd drown.

Yeah, that kind of sucks doesn't it. Good that you realize it though.