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Message: [QUOTE="guppy, post: 2168166, member: 1807"] Rips are so horrible. I've been caught in two that scared the living bejesus out of me. Once I was swimming with a mate and his little brother at a pretty remote beach on the central coast without any patrol. We all got caught in a rip. We all knew we were in the rip but didn't want to admit it so we all tried to swim quietly back to shore. It was so stupid, but we all felt like we needed to focus our energy on surviving and any talk would have made us weaker. My mate and I actually had to determine whether or not we had the ability to save his little bother. To even think of having to ask ourselves that question still haunts us to this day. In the end we hung back a little to make sure he was with us and we got out. Eventually we made it to shore and sat on the sand looking back into the ocean in complete silence and we still don't speak about it. The other time was 2 years ago at Warriewood on the Northern Beaches. I went out on a surfboard and my mate went bodysurfing. He got caught in a rip out of nowhere, and I just heard him yelling out my name. At first I thought he was joking but I saw him about 100m away and started paddling towards him. He was literally moving sideways at an unbelievable pace. A few waves later, the yelling stopped. I couldn't see him anywhere. I was scared out of my mind, but kept paddling towards where I thought he was. Nothing. No sign of him. Eventually, I heard a scream another 100m away from where I was paddling towards. I finally got to him and he grabbed onto the board like a mad man. He panicked so much that when we were paddling to shore he knocked me off the board. My foot was attached to the leash and I was dragged underwater while he caught waves all the way back to the sand. He had no idea that I almost drowned while trying to save him. Rips are horrible. [/QUOTE]

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