Rescue 911 - Episode 216 - Rip tide

[nitropules646]

all old people -_-

[LEXIS91ful]

I LUV RESCUE 911 ITS BECOME MY FAVORITE THING TO WATCH ON YOUTUBE ...I WISH THEY WOULD UP GRADE IT... I LUV YOU RESCUE 911..!!

[airplanebuilderman]

the coast guard would have lanched a helocoptor

[unclepoepoe]

did the other dude drown or go home?

[mielecustomer22]

I think that the flags should have been set to red on that day. To show just how dangerous the sea was. I'm so glad that no one drowned but the sea was truly very rough and a big monster.

[sweetlife031]

lesson: never swim in the ocean alone.

[AndrasRuben]

I think its much safer just to swim in a pool. Much, much safer.

[TronicReviews]

I was caught in a riptide a few years ago and nearly drowned. While trying to stay alive I remembered how they said you were supposed to swim parallel to the shore. I tried that and it only made things worse. So I swam directly against the current and eventually got out.

[kandyflosschick]

the waves on caleta beach gibraltar were huge red flags but people were allowed in theyy were so big it was 9 foot high and one after the other every 4 seconds i couldnt get out so i let one big wave carry me in and i went straight in scary though dont let the small waves fool ya cos the under currents can be stronger...hehe my lil essay

[stoddcrew]

This might seem dumb but why don't they just use a floating rope?

[Chacha5678]

haha the surfer

[BobTheBuilder378]

lol, old people.

[murderland1986]

tis video is also common sense

[Bubblegum4748]

IF YOU WERE A LIFEGUARD WHY THE HECK WOULD YOU LEAVE WHEN THERE IS A RIP CURRENT AND THEIR IS A OLD LADY IN THE WATER!!??

[uranne]

when i watched this in the 80's i was so amazed at 911's efficiency. when i look at it now, i am amazed at how technology has changed since then. but surely, compassion for fellow human beings never go out of style

[SexyAlexis1994]

wow. im glad shes ok. i woulda died cuz i aint a good swimmer lol

[BloodyFlesh626]

I wonder where the mystery man went. And i wonder why a 65 year old would go swimming in the high tides anyway. I dont care how good of a swimmer she is, shes almost 70! You'd think shed be all fragile and weakish. Some woman are strong willed but they need to keep they bodies up to date with it if their to work together. Glad she and her rescuer survived.

[zzzzdreamzzz]

you don't hear too many musn'ts anymore

[GenelleSOUL]

Number one don't panic and don't use all your energy! I was stuck in a rip current while in Costa Rica. It was the scariest event of my life. They can happen anywhere on any beach. SO just know the warning signs and either swim parallel to the shore until you swim out of the current or try to tread water and conserve energy until someone can rescue you!

[4eversmiling1]

I went to school in the Panhandle, and we would always get lectures about what to do if we were ever caught in a rip-tide. Don't fight against the tide. Swim parallel to the shore, and then once you are out of the current, swim back into shore.

[HomeWreckerA1]

she was like 10 feet out...

[tharindudanushka]

This is what happened to me yesterday. Like Martha I was exhausted and I only had energy to try to keep my head up it's not easy when you get a wave like every 5 seconds or less but I stayed calm all the time. Luckily my friend got help and I saw this guy swimming towards me with a rescue can when I had sort of given up hope and didn't think I'd make it back to the shore. I can't thank him enough I am just glad be alive

[ItsheCookieShow]

dont do anything you must stay calm or it will get even more agressive with you. just stay still and it will let go.

[Tom6093]

@ItsheCookieShow Stay calm but swim latterally towards shore

[nickrod32]

VANILLA ICE ICE BABY!

[jadokh92]

Guys, flags are there for YOUR safety, they are made to WARN you of the dangers! wqen a lifeguard puts up a flag, they are not joking around, it's because it's real dangerous!

[SoCalFlyer1]

And no one appreciates life guards. I got saved by one today.

[Vonshultze]

These are the American people!!!!

at times like this we all help each other..

WE NEED TO BE UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!

WE NEED TO BE UNITED LIKE THIS.

[mrpapafunky7879]

@Vonshultze good people do bad things but times like these show the true character of a person.thats when you see the good

[ILovestorms]

The Weather Channel talks about Rip Currents all the time. They only happen along the east coast of Florida, like the onw here.

[kekeeilum]

u have to swim parallel i learned it my science book

[larlar210]

@kekeeilum

Which is fine and dandy until you're stuck in one being pulled out to sea with waves crashing over your head. Just trying to keep your head above the water can be an ordeal, let alone trying to swim parallel to the shore.

[melodie973]

@kekeeilum do they have lizards in the science book

[tinjmail]

people got to have respect for the ocean!

It's so unbelievable that these men actually risk their lives for a stranger.

[3a6rooshuk]

when i watch this program i feel like its unreal how strangers,MEN help other people when now adays all i know is that men is the cause of everythin bad in our world

[mazza8424]

lol last week i got carried away out to sea and a boat took me back.i was on a rock and the tide came in FAST and it carried me outt o sea i was HELP it was scary

[SuperTornadoChaser1]

my mom almost got swept into the ocean when she was only 2!!!! and its not rip tide. its rip current. those arn't tides. again thery're currents.

[ToontownRocker123]

they are very scary, i have been in one that dragged me out so far we couldnt really see the shore..and the lifeguard didnt see us do the sign and it feels like ur jumping waves and having a good time then suddenly ur out to sea and all i had was a boogie board to help float us

[KronicDemon442]

all you have to do is swim left/right to get out

[rambojuliuscaesar]

ugh no.

[wellsgirl1]

BOTH MY COUSINS GOT STUCK IN A RIP TIDE

[Satakarnak]

swim with the tide to get spead and then turn Right

[SaintMvP]

@Satakarnak whats wrong with left.

[weenyone]

and don't fight the rip

[texanpride2007]

@weenyone swim parallel with the beach.

[LuCaRiOfan94]

Scariest moment in my life was getting caught in one of these. Luckily I knew to swim parellel to the beach. All in all I learned something:

Never swim alone!

[GUMMYBEAYUH]

Here in South Florida, the waves are different than other areas such as Hawaii, Virginia Beach, etc. Due to the extensive shallowness, when the water becomes rough, the waves roll in at an extremely high frequency. Instead of receiving one big wave maybe every 5 to 10 seconds, you receive five moderate to big waves every 2 to 3 seconds, one right behind the other. It makes for an extreme challenge. I always scout the beach beforehand, looking for rips, and I always have others with me as well.

[jamiesue131]

stupid idiot vacationers... this is what happens when you don't know how to deal with these situations

[kingofthesandfly]

i bet you it was chuck norris

[Ben123planes]

you should go to Prthowan Beach in Cornwall, I had just done a massive bodyboard wave and was now at ankle deep water, I was unbalanced by a wave and then the seventh wave came immedietly after and I fell over the rip tide was so strong that I roled about for times ( bear in mind this is still ankle deep water ) and I manged to regain balance in the area of the surfers

[GUMMYBEAYUH]

You're not kidding. I have been whitewater canoeing on two occasions, and one time we took a by-pass on a tributary to sight-see an old historic mill. The water became very shallow, roughly 3-6 inches deep, and one kid lost his paddle when the blade became wedged between some pebbles. He ran to get it, and I saw the paddle go whizzing by, lol, then the kid slipped and went right along with it. It was funny because we knew we were safe at the moment, but it goes to show the power of water.

[xxxrollingrockxxx2]

wow half the people were retarded not to help

[Noraschool9]

This reminds me what happened to my mother when she was like 12!

[DReifGalaxyM31]

"Riptide" is that ballpoint pen that can turn into a sword, right? So what if this were swords instead of tides?

[username1p]

anther great ending, DDDDDDDDyeah ya ya ya ya hurray kepp going,

[sexigurl112]

that reminds me of the time when i was 14, me and my mate who was also 14 and his 12 year old sister went into the sea, and it was hip to our hips and we went on this little sand patch and laid on it for a little while talking, then we noticed the sand patch was getting smaller, so we decided to go back, and when we jumped off this patch of sand the water was just under our necks... its a good job we knew how to swim and that the water wasnt rough

[roxie2120]

i got stuck in one but i survived i then got knocked down by a HUGE wave but got up quickly

[Dufflebagboy778]

they wern't even far out

[quad80cc]

really there were kind of

[hollyzone]

6:00 they all look sunbirned

[Jorgen87]

This episode is something to learn from,

when a person may be far from land, and need help, do NOT go into the water if you are not very good swimmer. If you do not have experience of this, you might even need help yourself if you loose control and making it worse for the rescue.

Even me, i have been 3 times in international swimcups thinking if the wind is to strong and to high waves, im not going to far.

[iluvbabies17]

Run Grandma Run

[EcoWhale]

I can say from experience swimming parallel really does work and it works fast! Swim parallel when in a rip!

[Jihhny]

hello call the lifeguard

[jmac945]

he left

[s6xer]

lol

[MageeForever]

mysterious man who disappeared after? maybe her guardian angel...

[karldiesen]

is it possible to refuck a lady

[Netlocd]

Mysterious man who came to her aid then disappeared? A ghost maybe?

[PiePerson100]

Moral of episode: Never swim alone.

[memo147258369]

why in the world would that lady just say hi when she clearly is drowning and screaming help what a dumb butt

[atlascanada]

@memo147258369 this is a reinactment, we have no way of knowing if the woman could hear her or see her very well. the waves were probably loud. also usually you wave both arms if your in need of help, one hand generally means hello

[texanpride2007]

@memo147258369 She may have been screaming "help!" In 2004, I was rescued after being pulled out to sea. The initial problem I had was when I was screaming for help, I had people on the beach waving, shouting back "hi" at me.

[Jacob0004]

why on earth would you go out in that?

[jem2envi]

I wonder who the guy was and why he chose to leave b4 all the formailties. Perhaps there are such things as Angels ... hmmm!!!

[Serostern]

Kinda dumb that 2 ppl gets in without a floating devide...

Duh! =P

[catchcain]

not exactly, hadn't they gone out she could have drowned without the extra support. those guys provided the additional minutes required before professional help arrived even if it meant putting themselves in considerable danger

[Serostern]

Almost every beach got a lifebouy, That would have ben preferable. A lifebouy IS a floating device, you can't deny that.

[l1b67]

dang I don't know if I will swim in the ocean again after almost drowning at jensen beach, which is about 5-10 miles from where this happened

[Reg121]

You see this all the time watching that Bondi Rescue from Australia. So many people daily get into trouble from the rip currents. Personally I wouldn't know what to do if trapped out there!

[marjan12342]

thank you for posting it's been awhile since I i've seen this show. It's very interesting to see all the rescues.

[hhr1dluv]

Why is it so especially hard to rescue people in this situation? I'm probably being dumb, but couldn't the lifeguards have tossed floats to the people and asked them to swim out? The waves would stop crashing on top of them at least, and they wouldn't be so exhausted. Most of the riptide accidents I've heard of is when someone gets sucked under and lost.

[halo10034]

i suppose when this video and rescue took place it was harder but nowadays whenever i go to the beach in san diego the lifeguards have jet skis with which to rescue potential drownees.

[allgood2000]

This happened after the lifeguard went off duty, so the victims were basically left to fend for themselves until the paramedics got there.

[Fightnfire36]

in some places the fire department has jet skis and boats for ocean rescues

[sprawlNbrawl87]

your thinking of undertowe. Rip currents happen when there is a gap in the waves that allows the current to travel straight out to sea. An undertowe is when there is no gap in the waves so the current travels under the waves and then out to sea

[81micha]

Interesting strategy.

''Oh look, someones caught in the riptide, let's jump in too''

''Oh look, 2 people are caught in the riptide, let's jump in too''

''Oh look, 3 people are caught in the riptide, let's jump in too''

''Oh look, 4 people are caught in the riptide, let's jump in too''

''Oh look, 5 people are caught in the riptide, yea.... guess I better jump in too''

[kidkong584]

what to do in a riptide:

1-swim out until you stop getting sucked out.

2-swim parralel to the beach in the direction that the waves are breaking.

3-either swim in on the to shore or signal to the lifeguards for a lifeboat

[broken098]

assemblerx is one funny mother fucker it looked just like chuck norris

[ASSEMblerEX]

The mystery man was chuck norris.

He swam out to roundhouse the ocean

and make it his bitch again.

[niagra898]

There is no 'ctrl' button on Chuck Norris's computer. Chuck Norris is always in control.

[WinterTroll]

The mystery man was Jesus

[summerchea21]

my brothers and i got caught in a rip current this past weekend, i swam out of it and so did one of my other brothers but i went back inti get my other brother cause he was goin under and got a leg cramp and i had to hold him up on a boogie board

[DorvellTStewart]

How is he doing now.

[singstar025]

did the mysterey man die or just get out of the water and leave????

or drown???

[allgood2000]

He left after they got him out of the water.

[MothraSky]

did the mystery man make it out of the water?

[angelgirl7473]

sounds like that lady had an angel there to..the "mysterous Man".. hmmmm

[LoginGrimnar]

Rip current will never take you down just out best thing to do is swim for the water that is breaking this is where the rip tide ends and the breaking water that will be easily swimable I was caught in one once and remembering this I saved my own life.

[xoDaRyLlLeEox]

this ocean's water didnt look that bad because it was just an acting scene, the real deal was probibly much worse

[srubi74]

I love swimming in the ocean, but I've never had an experience like this one.

On another subject, I find it a little depressing that 65 is considered elderly. My parents are 62 and 63, and if I have to start think of them as elderly, I'm going to start feeling old... sigh

[softwareguy256]

omg, its only water.

[jetle10]

??? whats a rip tide (reply plz)

[allgood2000]

It's an underwater current in the ocean that pulls you out to sea.

[jetle10]

hmm if its an under water current wouldnt it be safer to stay afloat?

[allgood2000]

Not really. It's just far enough underwater to where you can't see it. You can't get your body out of it.

[jetle10]

exactly how deep?

[allgood2000]

I don't know.

[havingfunhere]

There are rip tides and rip currents. Rip currents are formed by the backrush of water returning to sea from incoming waves. Riptides are actually tides moving out extremely quickly. And, contrary to popular belief, the current won't pull you under, and there is not "undertow". Only out, or sideways.

[JustAboutPurfect]

The best thing to do when your stuck in a rip tide is to swim sideways.... or something like that.. right??

[switchfootrelientk]

correct.

[chrisz71]

Can you IMAGINE how cold that water must have been? I went to Destin in May 2005, and it was a chilling 73 degrees!!

Not comparing my situation to this one, but I had a similar event happen to me, but in a wave pool. I kept getting pulled out further and kept going under the water, not getting a chance to catch my breath but for a brief second. It's truly frightening! Fortunately someone (not a life guard, mind you) grabbed my leg and pulled me just enough to could get out.

[allgood2000]

Port St. Lucie is a lot further south than Destin, but I would imagine it was still chilly in January.

[paranoiaxiii]

I just experienced this yesterday with a group of friends.. My girlfriend and I got pulled in 150 feet by the rip tide. I managed to keep us above water as many high waves hit us. As I was about to pass out, 3 men came to rescue us.

Thank you and I will never forget what you did for us that day.

[lizzykat2]

I'm glad that you and your girlfriend are okay

[bigmanbreakfast]

"Dave O'Hanner, President of the Condominium Association" :D

[lakecityransom]

lol

[lakecityransom]

Dave O'Hanner doesn't fuck with rip currents, he was the only one that just decided to stand on the beach and watch.

[Zesty7]

Didn't anyone else find it really strange that they never found that "mysterious man" who came to help and then disappeared? How do they know he didn't just drown?

[allgood2000]

Because he disappeared after they got them all back on to land.

[chrisz71]

Maybe an angel? That's what they are for.

[s10trav]

This is my "special" friend Martha.

[goreds03]

how isshe doin these days

[kinkyluv]

LOL

[rodrigo3]

poor lesbian lovers :(

[JediSCUME]

That what i thought