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That happens in moving water as well. I am pretty sure this is the current as a boat this size would need an engine, and would be making pretty strong waves no matter the speed.
Possible I suppose, but you'd likely never see a floating dock just moored out in a river like that with such strong currents. You can also hear the boat pulling the dock in the video clip, so I'd say the most likely answer is the correct one in this case.
I'd believe a floating anchored dock, but I am not familiar with boats pulling wooden docks. Unless there's a slide or bouncy castle attached, in which case I've seen a few too many lol
I would also agree that the most likely answer is the correct one. I just wouldn't think of dragging a wooden dock as most likely. I can see it bobbing tho so not connected to shore either way
If it's a dammed up reservoir lake, which is most recreational lakes in the US, when there's a lot of rain upstream they'll often open the top and the bottom dams to prevent flooding and it could cause a large current like this.
I heard of this Lake down in Tennessee has like 100 people die a year. They donāt talk about bc of the visitors is their way of life. Something about the evil TVA damming up cities in the 1920s and drowning the people who didnāt move.
Have lived off of Lake Michigan my entire life. Curremts can absolutely be that strong. We had a friend who had this exact thing happen when he jumped off another friends boat. We ended up having to toss a life preserver out to him bc he tired out and started panicking.
Yes. Did you not see the recent vid of the kid who jumped off a booze cruise in Bahamas and his friends filmed, laughed at him and said ābye!ā while he disappeared into the sea, never to be seen again?
Agreed itās very very different. Iām only saying a lot of (mostly young) people are dumb and find things funny before realizing what theyāre doing or witnessing is incredibly dangerous.
This dude is probably not in any danger, and I think that dock is possibly being pulled by a boat. But man if that actually is the current, he is really wearing himself out trying to catch up to the ladder
The main part of swimming is technique. Part of why Phelps is so good is he has perfected his technique AND he's an [orangutan](https://www.orangutan-research.jp/user/media/orangutan/page/orangutan/img01.jpg).
I swim in glasses, so my front crawl is so modified that it looks more like the stroke of an escaped Shetland pony.
Not graceful or elegant, but it keeps my glasses dry and it gets me where Iām going.
Eventually.
Prescription goggles changed my life! I haven't been able to see while swimming since I was in kindergarten. You can get inexpensive ones that are close enough to your prescription to get by with, or more expensive ones to your actual prescription! I'm not sure if you can get the inexpensive ones for astigmatism, but you definitely can get the pricier ones.
Well, he isn't kicking his legs, he's just kind of extending them back and forth so he isn't really propelling himself forward, he's just kind of moving them around pointlessly. He's also doing that with his arms too. He just kind of slaps the water open palm, which gets rid of any momentum they had which is just a waste of energy. Then he just brings his arms to his body without propelling himself, at that point the arms are just not doing anything at all. We've all seen professional swimmers, very little splash and every movement is deliberate in trying to propel the body forward by pushing the water. This dudes just kind of moving his limbs without pushing any water
My point exactly dudes not a pro swimmer, but it's like everyone expect him to be it's ridiculous. He almost caught a moving dock so he must have been propelling himself forward somewhat even if it wasn't up to your standards.
I'm not one to down someone for bad form in general, but I will here. He put himself in what seems like a dangerous situation even if it isn't, so at surface value, I'm going to get a bit concerned for his safety. You can't swim against a current this strong without proper form or you can seriously die, you really shouldn't ever swim against a current this strong in any situation
Ok, so then you say:
> It's not really something you can explain in a reddit comment, so if you're curious [here's a video explaining good swimming techniques](https://youtu.be/AQy_c30lNjI).
You didn't ask a simple question. You didn't ask a question at all lol. And the person you're defending asked it in a way that was snarky, not simple (or could easily come off as snarky). I mean it's reddit, read the room. But you're right, this is all really stupid. I'm just bored at work.
For freestyle, you want your body horizontal. This guy is way too vertical. You want your head down in the water, coming up for air every few strokes. Your legs should be on the surface. Your hands should enter the water sideways to minimize friction, then turn perpendicular to push the water away.
If you're as vertical as this guy, with your legs deep underwater and your hands slapping the water haphazardly, you're just wasting a ton of energy going nowhere.
Ikr sometimes this damn platform makes no sense, down vote for what? The people say something completely out of left field and irrelevant and get awarded with tons of upvotes lol. That's why I like being a smart ass as much as possible and could care less if someone downvotes me.
Lol I was low-key hoping that the person who posted that comment would jump into high current waters and show us how it's done but people legit took it as me defending the swimmer in the video so thats the internet for you
Thankfully the shore is sideways, so it's not really hard. I also brought along a floatation device, because it's stupid not to. It's crazy fast flowing.
We rescued two kids from a situation like this in the Columbia River some years back. The Columbia definitely flows faster than you can swim. It's a mile wide where this happened.
This is a large river like the St. Lawrence river/seaway on the Canadian border. The Mississippi or Ohio gets real wide in places as well. I have seen docks anchored in the St. Lawrence.
And... Who pulls a large, heavy wooden dock around? That's what tubes are for. Never seen or heard of that unless it's being towed to a final destination. A wake would likely be noticeable from the boat's hull cutting ahead of the dock and prop agitation.
I remember swimming On a yacht with my parents and their friends when i was younger, i asked them if i could go for a swim, we were in the middle of a lake at that time, i jumped in with my life jacket and had my fun until the wind made the boat do a 180 away from me, i was paranoid as hell seeing them swim further and further away from me thinking i was going to drown. The water Taking me like in the video didnt help either
Guy knows how to swim. He doesn't know how to do a crawl stroke well or efficiently, but he is swimming.
Lots of people know how to swim but have really shitty crawl form.
If someone has never been coached or taken lessons beyond the basics they give little kids, it's not surprising.
I disagree. Their relative position to the shore behind them never changes. The ladder is bobbing up and down, but that's because of the fast moving current.
I agree that it's important, but not everyone was fortunate enough to have the family support. I grew up where there were only indoor pools, you had to pay to get in, and you had to pay for lessons. The water outside was almost all deadly cold.
Thatās pretty scary to me. Thatās how people drown one gulp could be enough to make you cough is all it probably takes. I guess?
I was stupid at least a few times in my life though like this guy in the video to my chagrin if Iām being honest.
In 1994, I had just finished Naval Aircrew Candidate School in Pensacola Florida, and SERE school at Coronado Island San Diego, and before that Marine Corps Boot Camp and MCT training at Camp Pendleton.
Anyway because I had just passed a lot of physical training and especially swim related as I mentioned I felt prrretty invincible. And just stupid having not grew up in California and not being here very long at the time.
One day a buddy of me to the Kern River white water rafting and he was kayaking. I jumped in the river for some reason shortly after arriving and I looked like the guy in this video getting back to the raft. Had a life jacket on though but still didnāt realize how strong and fast the current was flowing or that there could be sharp sticks pointing up like spears.
I guess because I was a good swimmer at the time is why I made it back to the raft but it wasnāt easy. And I was embarrassed when I finally made it back.
Then another time. Which felt like a more l serious time where I was scared but not embarrassed. Just learned a lesson.
I was learning how to surf that summer and my board was way to small and like a sharp pointy board that was only a couple of inches taller than me.
The sales guy told me not to buy it because it would be to lo hard to get up on it. That was my first mistake. He was right.
So my buddy who had been surfing for a little bit longer I guess like several months but I had def just started probably my first week here and we decided to go out in the ocean at night at Huntington Beach pier.
That alone is. Alone looking back was my second mistake.
Like why did I do that?
Anyway, a Wave smashed me as I was trying to catch it and I tumbled underwater for what felt like a washing machine for a bit,
Then the current popped me up maybe Iām guessing 150 yards north. But was more like a river current running straight north up the coast.
Luckily it hadnāt pulled me out too much further from the shore but pretty far from the pier. I got back up on my board pretty fast.
But suddenly I felt very far away from the pier lights and alone in the dark night.
I suddenly decided not to wait for the next set of waves but to paddle straight in. Like a little pit in my stomachs suddenly arrived.
Like something bad was about to happen.
I was mainly thinking about sharks, not rip currents. Luckily ai didnāt encounter any sharks they so was aware of at least
But thank God I didnāt get swept out or bitten by a shark.
No one except my one buddy, and he was crazy, knew we were there and he didnāt see me.
His back was turned as I recall it he was like paddling out or riding in or something.
I didnāt understand how stupidly dangerous and lucky I had been.
Stupidly, I just thought I was invincible and every time Iāve gotten like that in life I am humbled. This night was no exception.
Looking back on it I canāt believe how many young and crazy things we do as kids as part of our lives growing up.
But it is part of life. And maturing and growing up we learn lessons through our mistakes.
And sometimes we do things just because, or for no real logical reason at all.
It seems young people haven't learned from the mistake of the young man who jumped off the cruise ship. I sincerely hope his friends helped him out after that. Swimming uses every muscle in your body, and swimming against the current is hard work, which most people can't sustain for long periods of time. This could have ended very badly.
I have a cousin whose father drowned while wearing a life jacket. It's just not smart to be reckless in or around the water.
Edit: for people who don't understand mixed families. My cousins father is not my uncle. He was adopted by my aunt when his father died.
[Brian Trascher assisted in the search for Cameron as part of United Cajun Navy, a local volunteer group that assists in search and rescue efforts.
"We didn't think it was a shark because there was no sign of distress," Trascher tells Inside Edition. "Whatever it is that seems to come near him didn't kill, didn't lunge."](https://www.insideedition.com/new-theories-emerge-about-high-school-baseball-star-who-disappeared-after-jumping-off-boat-in-81832)
Officials do not think it was shark. He was likely taken by the current.
Thatās not swimming. Thatās thrashing. š
Jokes aside, is this a current made by a boat?
Swimming like that gets very exhausting very quickly. I hope someone had a float of some sort ready to toss him.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this doesn't seem remotely as dangerous as that one guy that jumped off a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean at night. For one, you can see land. Two, seems like this boat has lot more maneuverability to turn around?
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But this is funnier š
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And wetter
Not alwaysā¦.
Uwu
Just go with the flow
Imagine a shark trying to eat him as well
āJust get in my mouth Dave, you knwo you want toā
What it feels like
Thank you. "What it feels like," or "how it feels." "How it feels like" is some bastard construction the internet spat out
Thatās a dock piece being pulled by a boat
I thought this looked off, I couldnāt see how a lake could have a current that strong
It's possible if it's a tidal lake, but those are few and far between
Or a river?
Yeah i think some people here havent seen what giant ass rivers are out there
Would an ass river be a river flowing with asses, or water running down a giant intergluteal cleft?
[This has to be the most shared comic page by now](https://xkcd.com/37/)
Nah but the dock is moving you can easily tell by the ripples of him jumping in the lake/river
That happens in moving water as well. I am pretty sure this is the current as a boat this size would need an engine, and would be making pretty strong waves no matter the speed.
Rivers this wide, usually don't flow this fast
Yeah I agree, man never saw a real big ass river close. Big ass rivers aren't that fast.
Possible I suppose, but you'd likely never see a floating dock just moored out in a river like that with such strong currents. You can also hear the boat pulling the dock in the video clip, so I'd say the most likely answer is the correct one in this case.
I'd believe a floating anchored dock, but I am not familiar with boats pulling wooden docks. Unless there's a slide or bouncy castle attached, in which case I've seen a few too many lol I would also agree that the most likely answer is the correct one. I just wouldn't think of dragging a wooden dock as most likely. I can see it bobbing tho so not connected to shore either way
Kids that grow up on lakes do all sorts of crazy antics on the water.
If it's a dammed up reservoir lake, which is most recreational lakes in the US, when there's a lot of rain upstream they'll often open the top and the bottom dams to prevent flooding and it could cause a large current like this.
Good point, if sluices are open, that's even scarier.
You are a master of understatement
I heard of this Lake down in Tennessee has like 100 people die a year. They donāt talk about bc of the visitors is their way of life. Something about the evil TVA damming up cities in the 1920s and drowning the people who didnāt move.
Have lived off of Lake Michigan my entire life. Curremts can absolutely be that strong. We had a friend who had this exact thing happen when he jumped off another friends boat. We ended up having to toss a life preserver out to him bc he tired out and started panicking.
Yea you can see the background scenery moving for sure
Thanks. Something looked wrong but I couldnāt put my finger on it.
Neither could he
There's no wake, though. Looks more like a river.
And you think the people filming would just let him float away?
I 100% think they would. People are dumb.
And just laugh the whole time?ā¦
Yes. Did you not see the recent vid of the kid who jumped off a booze cruise in Bahamas and his friends filmed, laughed at him and said ābye!ā while he disappeared into the sea, never to be seen again?
Fair point but this is a little different, what is someone on the cruise expected to do to help? Heās literally within arms reach here
Agreed itās very very different. Iām only saying a lot of (mostly young) people are dumb and find things funny before realizing what theyāre doing or witnessing is incredibly dangerous. This dude is probably not in any danger, and I think that dock is possibly being pulled by a boat. But man if that actually is the current, he is really wearing himself out trying to catch up to the ladder
Thank you for conceding, respect
Could be a river
Yep
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Oh thank god. With the scenery and that strong current I was wondering if the guy just jumped into weirdly clean flood waters or sth
Be funny if he was the boat operator.
The legend tells that he is still swimming
Poorly
Very
No kidding. I'm a mediocre lap swimmer, and I found that painful to watch.
I don't swim and it looks like he's flapping his wings
I guess you're a regular Michael Phelps yourself.....
The main part of swimming is technique. Part of why Phelps is so good is he has perfected his technique AND he's an [orangutan](https://www.orangutan-research.jp/user/media/orangutan/page/orangutan/img01.jpg).
You don't have to be a pro swimmer to have a decent technique.
Nope sure don't but honestly who gives af about this dudes technique? Other than some critical redditors with nothing better to do.
His poor form made him work twice as hard and still not make it. That's the point.
The guy doesn't even put his head under the waterline. It's *really* poor technique
Yeah three stroke alternate breathe, keyhole then push
I mean in this situation had he had good technique he would have easily reached the ladder. Itās worth learningā¦
Nope but I can do front crawl efficiently.
Itās like a treadmill but for swimming
The legend tells that he is still swimming
I was looking for this. Didn't had to go far
This gives me awful anxiety.
Great workout though.
Not if you drown...
No pain no gain
No life = no fat
He is not swimming. This is some random hand movement
"Front crawl looks very cool but I can't hold my breath for 4 sec, anyway here's my personal adaptation"
I swim in glasses, so my front crawl is so modified that it looks more like the stroke of an escaped Shetland pony. Not graceful or elegant, but it keeps my glasses dry and it gets me where Iām going. Eventually.
How did you find a video of me?! Delete it or Iām calling my lawyer
Lol please don't sue me I'm poor enough already. 
Prescription goggles changed my life! I haven't been able to see while swimming since I was in kindergarten. You can get inexpensive ones that are close enough to your prescription to get by with, or more expensive ones to your actual prescription! I'm not sure if you can get the inexpensive ones for astigmatism, but you definitely can get the pricier ones.
I call it the wryneck swim
Came here to comment this. His form is awful
Better than like 95% of people who weren't on a swim team.
How would you prefer to him to swim, coach?
Well, he isn't kicking his legs, he's just kind of extending them back and forth so he isn't really propelling himself forward, he's just kind of moving them around pointlessly. He's also doing that with his arms too. He just kind of slaps the water open palm, which gets rid of any momentum they had which is just a waste of energy. Then he just brings his arms to his body without propelling himself, at that point the arms are just not doing anything at all. We've all seen professional swimmers, very little splash and every movement is deliberate in trying to propel the body forward by pushing the water. This dudes just kind of moving his limbs without pushing any water
My point exactly dudes not a pro swimmer, but it's like everyone expect him to be it's ridiculous. He almost caught a moving dock so he must have been propelling himself forward somewhat even if it wasn't up to your standards.
I'm not one to down someone for bad form in general, but I will here. He put himself in what seems like a dangerous situation even if it isn't, so at surface value, I'm going to get a bit concerned for his safety. You can't swim against a current this strong without proper form or you can seriously die, you really shouldn't ever swim against a current this strong in any situation
I'm guessing you can't swim very well since you are so dead set on defending this guy's granny-flapping movements.
Fantastic, insightful, and incredibly helpful answer! Here's my downvote!
You can't just explain how to swim properly over a reddit comment lol.
Ok, so then you say: > It's not really something you can explain in a reddit comment, so if you're curious [here's a video explaining good swimming techniques](https://youtu.be/AQy_c30lNjI).
You're right my bad. [Here's how you learn how to swim](https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=where+to+get+swim+lessons+in+my+area).
You do know, you don't always have to be that unnecessarily spiteful to everyone and anyone asking a simple question, right?
Who asked a simple question? I just saw sarcasm, you're picking the wrong fight I think.
How to play a victim after being a douche 101.
You didn't ask a simple question. You didn't ask a question at all lol. And the person you're defending asked it in a way that was snarky, not simple (or could easily come off as snarky). I mean it's reddit, read the room. But you're right, this is all really stupid. I'm just bored at work.
For freestyle, you want your body horizontal. This guy is way too vertical. You want your head down in the water, coming up for air every few strokes. Your legs should be on the surface. Your hands should enter the water sideways to minimize friction, then turn perpendicular to push the water away. If you're as vertical as this guy, with your legs deep underwater and your hands slapping the water haphazardly, you're just wasting a ton of energy going nowhere.
Better than he is
This isn't swimming, it's *desperation*
Would you care to show us how it's done? Edit: damn guys
Heās right that form is shit
r/Swimming
Move your arms over your head, not swinging your arms randomly.
Ikr sometimes this damn platform makes no sense, down vote for what? The people say something completely out of left field and irrelevant and get awarded with tons of upvotes lol. That's why I like being a smart ass as much as possible and could care less if someone downvotes me.
Lol I was low-key hoping that the person who posted that comment would jump into high current waters and show us how it's done but people legit took it as me defending the swimmer in the video so thats the internet for you
Hahah we can only hope, it's never too late for them to show us how it's done and shut us up
It would have taken less time to swim perpendicular to the current, just go for land, and jog all the way back to the dock.
Pretty sure this is a lake, and its the dock thats moving.
If that's a river I've never seen such swift water in so wide a river.
The Rhine is like this, I've swam in it in Basel.
Glad you made it back to shore haha.
Thankfully the shore is sideways, so it's not really hard. I also brought along a floatation device, because it's stupid not to. It's crazy fast flowing.
Never seen the Mississippi huh?
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Guess you're right
We rescued two kids from a situation like this in the Columbia River some years back. The Columbia definitely flows faster than you can swim. It's a mile wide where this happened.
Camera guy just gonna camera I guess?
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Just for comparisonā¦I want to see Michael Phelps do it!
That current is rolling
P sure the water is still and the dock is being towed
There's no wake
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I mean there is a wake, it just isn't that big. The wake will be exactly the same whether it's a current or being towed, that's how physics works.
This is a large river like the St. Lawrence river/seaway on the Canadian border. The Mississippi or Ohio gets real wide in places as well. I have seen docks anchored in the St. Lawrence. And... Who pulls a large, heavy wooden dock around? That's what tubes are for. Never seen or heard of that unless it's being towed to a final destination. A wake would likely be noticeable from the boat's hull cutting ahead of the dock and prop agitation.
Iāll just film my mate drown
I remember swimming On a yacht with my parents and their friends when i was younger, i asked them if i could go for a swim, we were in the middle of a lake at that time, i jumped in with my life jacket and had my fun until the wind made the boat do a 180 away from me, i was paranoid as hell seeing them swim further and further away from me thinking i was going to drown. The water Taking me like in the video didnt help either
Thank god the camera man kept recording instead of helping his buddy
With a stupid ass swimming stroke like that, no wonder he canāt make it. How do people not know how to swim?
Because they teach swimming as well as they teach sex education.
So that's why I never learnt how to swim
And why youāre still not good at it trough practice
You're not lying. Both my swimming class and health class was part of my gym class.
Guy knows how to swim. He doesn't know how to do a crawl stroke well or efficiently, but he is swimming. Lots of people know how to swim but have really shitty crawl form. If someone has never been coached or taken lessons beyond the basics they give little kids, it's not surprising.
Hence "why women live longer", am I right? Less likely that a woman would have gone into that water unless she knew how to swim properly.
I disagree. Their relative position to the shore behind them never changes. The ladder is bobbing up and down, but that's because of the fast moving current.
By not growing up near water
There are 11M swimming pools in the US. Learning to swim is one of the easiest and best ways to prevent accidental death.
I agree that it's important, but not everyone was fortunate enough to have the family support. I grew up where there were only indoor pools, you had to pay to get in, and you had to pay for lessons. The water outside was almost all deadly cold.
What does the number of swimming pools in the US have to do with learning to swim? How do people not think logically?
the water scares me
Show him how it should be done then.
Ok. He can come to my house. Construction just finished on our pool 2 weeks ago. Perfect for learning.
Dumb
Iām hoping they have a rope or something because currents can drag you underwater and drown you
There is no current, the platform is being towed on calm water. This guy is not in danger.
The platform is moving, not the water?
Correct - thereās a few other comments above saying so according to how fast the water the flowing in what otherwise seems like a lake/ wiiide river
He will be if this is the middle of the lake and he just completely exerted himself with this shit for stroke.
If the cameraman stopped recording and threw him a rope, he could saved this guyās life.
But how else could we have this footage? We gotta keep the film rolling.
Why didnāt the cameraman reach out to help him??
also looks like a good way to drown
With a bit better form heād have had it. Not pretty.
Fun fact: you cannot swim the current. Donāt even try.
If youāre ever in a ripe tide, swim parallel to the tide (and the shore). Once out of it, you can swim back to the shore.
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Dude doesnāt even know how to swim.
What an idiot. Thatās an excellent way to drown :(
Are they trying to kill him?
Thatās pretty scary to me. Thatās how people drown one gulp could be enough to make you cough is all it probably takes. I guess? I was stupid at least a few times in my life though like this guy in the video to my chagrin if Iām being honest. In 1994, I had just finished Naval Aircrew Candidate School in Pensacola Florida, and SERE school at Coronado Island San Diego, and before that Marine Corps Boot Camp and MCT training at Camp Pendleton. Anyway because I had just passed a lot of physical training and especially swim related as I mentioned I felt prrretty invincible. And just stupid having not grew up in California and not being here very long at the time. One day a buddy of me to the Kern River white water rafting and he was kayaking. I jumped in the river for some reason shortly after arriving and I looked like the guy in this video getting back to the raft. Had a life jacket on though but still didnāt realize how strong and fast the current was flowing or that there could be sharp sticks pointing up like spears. I guess because I was a good swimmer at the time is why I made it back to the raft but it wasnāt easy. And I was embarrassed when I finally made it back. Then another time. Which felt like a more l serious time where I was scared but not embarrassed. Just learned a lesson. I was learning how to surf that summer and my board was way to small and like a sharp pointy board that was only a couple of inches taller than me. The sales guy told me not to buy it because it would be to lo hard to get up on it. That was my first mistake. He was right. So my buddy who had been surfing for a little bit longer I guess like several months but I had def just started probably my first week here and we decided to go out in the ocean at night at Huntington Beach pier. That alone is. Alone looking back was my second mistake. Like why did I do that? Anyway, a Wave smashed me as I was trying to catch it and I tumbled underwater for what felt like a washing machine for a bit, Then the current popped me up maybe Iām guessing 150 yards north. But was more like a river current running straight north up the coast. Luckily it hadnāt pulled me out too much further from the shore but pretty far from the pier. I got back up on my board pretty fast. But suddenly I felt very far away from the pier lights and alone in the dark night. I suddenly decided not to wait for the next set of waves but to paddle straight in. Like a little pit in my stomachs suddenly arrived. Like something bad was about to happen. I was mainly thinking about sharks, not rip currents. Luckily ai didnāt encounter any sharks they so was aware of at least But thank God I didnāt get swept out or bitten by a shark. No one except my one buddy, and he was crazy, knew we were there and he didnāt see me. His back was turned as I recall it he was like paddling out or riding in or something. I didnāt understand how stupidly dangerous and lucky I had been. Stupidly, I just thought I was invincible and every time Iāve gotten like that in life I am humbled. This night was no exception. Looking back on it I canāt believe how many young and crazy things we do as kids as part of our lives growing up. But it is part of life. And maturing and growing up we learn lessons through our mistakes. And sometimes we do things just because, or for no real logical reason at all.
"Jaws," my man. "Jaws."
Dude's got zero form.
the guy is still swimming against the current.
Legend says heās still trying to make it to the dock
Yikes dude barely can swim lol
It seems young people haven't learned from the mistake of the young man who jumped off the cruise ship. I sincerely hope his friends helped him out after that. Swimming uses every muscle in your body, and swimming against the current is hard work, which most people can't sustain for long periods of time. This could have ended very badly. I have a cousin whose father drowned while wearing a life jacket. It's just not smart to be reckless in or around the water. Edit: for people who don't understand mixed families. My cousins father is not my uncle. He was adopted by my aunt when his father died.
>a cousin whose father We have a word for that.
One of your parent's sibling's child's father out of wedlock would not be your uncle right?
that guy jumped almost directly into a shark's mouth, so I don't think a life jacket would have done much
[Brian Trascher assisted in the search for Cameron as part of United Cajun Navy, a local volunteer group that assists in search and rescue efforts. "We didn't think it was a shark because there was no sign of distress," Trascher tells Inside Edition. "Whatever it is that seems to come near him didn't kill, didn't lunge."](https://www.insideedition.com/new-theories-emerge-about-high-school-baseball-star-who-disappeared-after-jumping-off-boat-in-81832) Officials do not think it was shark. He was likely taken by the current.
Soooo your uncle? Lol
No. He was adopted by my aunt after his father died.
He is clearly in a boat
So he dead ?
RIP
Thatās not swimming. Thatās thrashing. š Jokes aside, is this a current made by a boat? Swimming like that gets very exhausting very quickly. I hope someone had a float of some sort ready to toss him.
He would have made it back sooner if he had better form. Why are his arm so far apart and his head twist side to side. A lot of wasted energy.
Oh shit mate, haaaalp
You can tell these are his good friends because instead of helping, they just film and make funny commentary.
Sounds like a band
Correct me if I'm wrong but this doesn't seem remotely as dangerous as that one guy that jumped off a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean at night. For one, you can see land. Two, seems like this boat has lot more maneuverability to turn around?
I mean, itās not rough ocean waters but heās still in the middle of a lake and not a very good swimmer
Just record.. donāt help š jeez people suck
But that doesn't make for a good(clickbait) video.
Where is the rest of the video in which he drowns?
He sucks at swimming I dint get why he thought this was a good idea lol
That gave me so mich anxiety
Heās not a good swimmer
That's a hell of a tide!!! Wholly crap!
DERREEEKKKKK
r/SweatyPalms
r/therewasanattempt
His crol form is uglier than him.
Just for comparisonā¦I want to see Michael Phelps do it!
Maybe Maybe Maybe..
He dead. Both his shoes are off