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Saw some former pro baseball player/cop drowned at Pawleys Island.
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Jul 17, 2025, 2:27 PM
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Always makes wonder why people have such trouble in riptides. I was raised in them. You don't fight them. You just swim sideways and don't fight them at all. Let them suck you out a ways and just keep going sideways as your being pulled out. Eriptide you are out of it. I wish more people would be taught that. There should be signs explaining that. Anyway, RIP. He was trying to save others apparently.
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TigerNet Vanguard [223435]
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He saved 5 others.
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Jul 17, 2025, 2:30 PM
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Maybe after that he ran out of gas. Seemed like a good dood.
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Re: He saved 5 others.
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Jul 17, 2025, 2:32 PM
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That is very true. Good point. Wonder if he was trying to save a 6th? Either way, its amazing he put his life on the line like that.
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Re: He saved 5 others.
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Jul 17, 2025, 2:33 PM
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Good looking family too. Just tragic.
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Re: He saved 5 others.
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Jul 17, 2025, 2:36 PM
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After his baseball career, he joined Cobb PD where he received a lifetime achievement award for saving several lives.
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Re: He saved 5 others.
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Jul 17, 2025, 2:37 PM
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Unbelievable. The epitome of tragic.
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TigerNet Vanguard [223435]
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And evidently the 5 he saved was a whole fam.***
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Jul 17, 2025, 2:38 PM
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Re: And evidently the 5 he saved was a whole fam.***
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Jul 17, 2025, 2:38 PM
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Even crazier.
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I just talked to my FIL doctor about something similar. This is how he
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Jul 17, 2025, 4:32 PM
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explained it.
Kinda 2 ways to drown...
1) You go under and cant get back to the surface.
2) You are constantly struggling and slowly taking droplets of water in so your air capacity in your lungs just gets lower and lower... meanwhile, you are exerting a lot of energy requiring more and more oxygen to sustain your muscles.
My guess is this guy fell into the 2nd category. He was getting people out, slowly taking in a splash of water here and there. He stayed out there requiring more and more 02 to fuel his muscles... and then his capacity just couldnt keep up. By the time he realized it, his muscles couldnt produce the required energy to keep him afloat.
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Re: I just talked to my FIL doctor about something similar. This is how he
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Jul 17, 2025, 4:43 PM
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So number 2 should never happen. Its really simple to avoid that. Then again I was raised around large surf and around the world with large surf and riptide. I guess its human nature to fight it, but they can't be fought , and you just swim sideways. You don't even have to swim that hard, but just sideways. They generally aren't that wide either. As far as number 1, I have never had that feeling. I guess they can pull you under, but they generally pull you out to sea if you stay in them. I wish there was more education for tourists, because I believe the vast majority of time they tragedy can be avoided if someone knows how to swim.
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Sorry if I wasnt clear... I wasnt talking about riptides.
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Jul 17, 2025, 5:00 PM
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I was specifically talking about drowning. So he was out there struggling to save people and kept slowly taking in droplets of water while trying to rescue people. As he stayed out there, his long capacity kept getting smaller and smaller while the required oxygen to sustain his muscles was increasing.
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Re: Sorry if I wasnt clear... I wasnt talking about riptides.
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Jul 17, 2025, 5:11 PM
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That makes complete sense. Yeah I have taken some water in my lungs one time and it scared me. I can definitely see that happening.
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Re: Saw some former pro baseball player/cop drowned at Pawleys Island.
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Jul 17, 2025, 6:03 PM
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You said signs should explain how to deal with it. Agree. I would have no idea what to do. I would likely panic not knowing.
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Re: Saw some former pro baseball player/cop drowned at Pawleys Island.
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Jul 17, 2025, 6:06 PM
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Exactly. Its so simple, but most people don't know.
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And trying to help someone who is fighting to swim against the rip current
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Jul 17, 2025, 9:11 PM
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has to been hard.
RIP this man and Ts and P's for his family. They know he died a hero.
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Jul 17, 2025, 9:27 PM
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The world lost a great person today...wow my heart and thoughts are with his family. My goodness.
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good guy. I knew him, kinda
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Jul 18, 2025, 10:06 AM
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Been frands w/ the wife's mother & her husband (not the wife's father) for 15 years, and met the daughter(s) and him several times at bday/holiday parties. They're from Greenville
sucks. they're obviously wrecked.
thing is, the other (younger) daughter's husband died randomly a few years ago. I forget how, but it was a similar thing, in that it was just weird/freakish/sudden/accidental.
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