4 year old boy is swept out to sea while walking on beach at Kitty Hawk
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This is horrible to think of. Esp
With my experience. When my son was around 6 or 7 we were boogie boarding here. We were having a blast. The tide was going out and there was a strong shore current. We got sucked down the beach and i suddenly found myself in a deep hole and in a rip current. I had been holding my sons board leash with him on it to help him catch waves. I got sucked out by the rip current and lost all leverage holding him and the board. about that time a freaking huge wave came in. I tried with all my strength to hold on but the board leash snapped against the force of rhe wave and it knocked my son off the board into deep water. I was helpless against the current and i saw him tumble and struggle and then he disappeared. My freaking heart stopped and i panicked. He was gone. Then Suddenly after what seemed like an eternity i felt his body brush up against my legs underwater as he was getting sucked out by the undertow. I was able to grab him up and we clung to my board while i paddled parallel to the beach to get out of the rip tide. If he hadnt washed up against me in a one in a million shot theres no doubt in my mind he would have drowned. He was badly scraped up and swallowed a lot of water but okay. I was a mess. Couldnt stop trembling. Prob the most terrified i’ve ever been. I always think of the guilt i would have lived with if he had drowned.
With my experience. When my son was around 6 or 7 we were boogie boarding here. We were having a blast. The tide was going out and there was a strong shore current. We got sucked down the beach and i suddenly found myself in a deep hole and in a rip current. I had been holding my sons board leash with him on it to help him catch waves. I got sucked out by the rip current and lost all leverage holding him and the board. about that time a freaking huge wave came in. I tried with all my strength to hold on but the board leash snapped against the force of rhe wave and it knocked my son off the board into deep water. I was helpless against the current and i saw him tumble and struggle and then he disappeared. My freaking heart stopped and i panicked. He was gone. Then Suddenly after what seemed like an eternity i felt his body brush up against my legs underwater as he was getting sucked out by the undertow. I was able to grab him up and we clung to my board while i paddled parallel to the beach to get out of the rip tide. If he hadnt washed up against me in a one in a million shot theres no doubt in my mind he would have drowned. He was badly scraped up and swallowed a lot of water but okay. I was a mess. Couldnt stop trembling. Prob the most terrified i’ve ever been. I always think of the guilt i would have lived with if he had drowned.
I don't want to hear another scary story like that in which I just read . . it will give me nightmares, and I'm not joking.
Thank God that HeelManWilm's son made it through that . .
Thank God that HeelManWilm's son made it through that . .
I know this experience must've been terrifying because you went to the trouble of typing all that on a cell phone. Glad everyone was okay.
The predictive app makes it quite easy. Sometimes it correctly predicts the next three words
Dang! That scared me and it wasn’t even my son. Glad both of you were ok.
Thankfully I never had anything like that happen to my boys, but my BIL did get caught in a rip current when we were at the beach several years ago and almost drowned in front of my kids. His buddies had to hold onto him and help him stay above water until he could get to shore. He breathed in some water and to this day still has respiratory issues. That was probably 10’years ago.
I can’t imagine it happening to my kid.
Thankfully I never had anything like that happen to my boys, but my BIL did get caught in a rip current when we were at the beach several years ago and almost drowned in front of my kids. His buddies had to hold onto him and help him stay above water until he could get to shore. He breathed in some water and to this day still has respiratory issues. That was probably 10’years ago.
I can’t imagine it happening to my kid.
heelman, by "here" do you mean Wilmington or do you mean when you were at OBX?
You do not mess with the currents/undertow at OBX. They are brutal.
Carolina beach. I’ve since learned in the years living here there are some really bad spots. But yea obx is brutal. The shore break there is esp powerful which is what claimed this kid it seems
This story made my heart break , my heart goes out to this family. My family loves the beach but I am terrified of the ocean. I let my kid get about ankle deep and I am right there with her . Rip currents scare the shit out of me. I prefer White Lake.
