Can't get out of the sea. A mysterious phenomenon at sea that claims the lives of many people

You decide to swim, and completely imperceptible small waves carry you into the sea from the shore - do not panic, you have been captured by the reverse current, which is called the rip current, and in no case should you (!) Swim directly to the shore against the current, you need try to move parallel to the shore, or at least diagonally.

The reverse flow is never wide - from a few meters to 100 meters and disperses along the length, the farther from the coast, the weaker. We must move along the coast, across the current. Preferably in the direction in which the wind blows, as it is easier to sail with the wind. After some time, you will definitely feel that the current has weakened and you can safely swim to the shore.

You need not to panic and try to rest as much as possible, lying on your back, this saves strength until you find a solution how to safely swim to shore. The reverse current is only superficial, it will not drag you under water, it will only take you to the sea, so the main thing is not to lose strength and calmness.

The high crests of the waves indicate that there is no reverse flow, the draft, and the foam, on the contrary, is a sign of the reverse flow. As on the road, we look under our feet, so on the sea we must know where to sail.

The average swimmer can stay in the water without assistance for up to five hours. If suddenly there are more victims next to you, try to line up with your feet in a chain to support the head of your neighbor in misfortune, then your hands can be used instead of oars.

Photograph of the Coast Guard - traction in action

If a wave covers you and sea water enters your mouth, you need to swim with a float, for this you need to take in more air and wrap your arms around your knees, try to shrink as much as possible and you turn into a kind of ball. Head under water, back up, maximum air in your lungs, as long as you have air in your lungs, it is impossible to drown. Then stick out your head, take in air and turn into a rugby ball again. Thus, it is possible to get out of a strong current with waves with a minimum expenditure of energy.

If the bottom current pulls from below into the sea, and a wave beats from above, then you can turn over and you will choke on water. In this case, the main thing is to stand on your feet. To keep from the undercurrent, you need to try to bury your fingers in the sand, and keep your feet upright like a ballerina. If the bottom is rocky, then you need to spread your legs wide and become parallel to the current, you will spend less energy on resistance. You can’t take your legs off the bottom - it will take you away.

When getting shells from the bottom or basking on a mattress, try not to turn your back to the shore, diving can swim far enough or get into a strong current.

In Tuapse, tyagun is expected - always listen to the messages of the local coast guard

Remember, swimming in the sea is not recommended either after a hearty meal or on an empty stomach and is strictly prohibited after drinking alcohol, it is better to choose swimming facilities from several independent parts, do not use air mattresses in the sea if you cannot swim, do not swim in unfamiliar places - there will be no unpleasant surprises, that's almost the whole alphabet of safety. If you're not very good at swimming, stay out of the water past mid-thigh, and a pair of tennis balls in your bathing suit will add some buoyancy.

The sea is deceptive and treacherous, it is not our friend and does not like the frivolous. Gentle unobtrusive waves, caressing warmth can be dangerous. Therefore, those who enter the sea must know and follow the rules of behavior on the water, as well as follow the rules of the road.

Since childhood, he loved to swim in a storm. I never liked the calm. I have always been attracted by the raging sea, I loved to listen to the mad beats of the waves against the shore, look at the foamy splashes and inhale the smell of salt in the crazy wind. Even when I didn't swim, I liked to look at the sea in a storm - on a large pier to peer into the distance and feel the breath of the elements.

This love of mine almost cost me my life on the beach near the Genoese Rock, at the bottom of the Skalnaya Hotel, near Gurzuf. I will try to describe my previous experience of swimming in a storm, which helped me swim out: maybe it will be useful to someone else. That day there was a storm of 4-5 points - it's time for swimming. In such a storm, it is not so easy to go into the sea - the wave does not allow you to do this: in the zone of a storm attack, it throws you ashore. When you get into the whirlpool zone, you can generally be so twisted that the least is a loss of orientation, or even a loss of consciousness. The whirlpool zone begins immediately after the storm attack zone - at this point the sea begins to twist the ridge and throw a wave into the storm attack zone. If the previous wave subsides, and the next one runs on top of it, a whirlpool is obtained. Getting into such a whirlpool is very dangerous. Therefore, there are two ways to enter a stormy sea - entering between the waves, which is dangerous if you hesitate, and diving into the base of the wave to emerge beyond the whirlpool zone. If you dive into the bottom, you need to count the rhythm of the next wave, so that when you dive out, you don’t get into the going wave: then you can choke on inspiration. This is really significant: in such a storm, the waves are one and a half to two times higher than human height. Therefore, when emerging, you must immediately saddle the oncoming wave.

To saddle a wave means to make additional vertical rowing movements with your hands, allowing you to swim up to the crest of the wave and then float down from it, preventing an overflow. Overlap is obtained when, for some reason, you do not completely saddle the wave, and it covers you, choking your breath. In such a storm, breathing should be incessant. Any delay during intensive work with hands on saddling a wave is fraught with shortness of breath and fatigue. Several overlaps in a row can lead to disorientation, shortness of breath or extreme fatigue. Extreme fatigue, flooding and shortness of breath are the main dangers of swimming in a storm. This is if the sea is warm. If the sea is cold, there is still a danger of hypothermia. Then a couple of tens of minutes in the water, and that's it - the body can not stand it.

I prefer to go into stormy seas between waves, constantly controlling each wave, saddling it and not allowing it to overflow. That day I did just that. I successfully navigated the storm attack zone by moving between the impacts of the wave and taking the impact of the wave while standing in a shock-resisting stance. When I got to the beginning of the whirlpool zone, I pushed off hard and overcame it, ending up beyond the whirlpool zone. After that, you need to move away from the whirlpool zone as quickly as possible, since the whirlpool can occur anywhere in this zone: usually it is somewhere around 3-5 meters. Immediately after the whirlpool zone, the outflow zone begins. If in the zone of storm attack the waves hit the shore offensively and from top to bottom, then receding back, and in the whirlpool zone the water makes a rotational movement, then in the outflow zone the water moves in two directions: the upper ball of water moves in waves towards the shore, the lower ball of water moves from shores (part of the water that drains from the shore swirls in the whirlpool zone and again rushes to the shore, and part returns through the outflow zone back to the sea).

Thus, in the outflow zone, the water does not carry you either to the sea or to the shore. However, there is one significant circumstance that should not be forgotten and which I did not fully take into account, carried away by saddling the waves. When saddling a wave, you have to make vertical rowing movements with your hands, which, nevertheless, always have a translational moment of movement directed from the shore (if you swim face into the sea, and this is exactly what you should do, tracking and saddling each wave in order to prevent overflow). In the outflow zone, the flow of the lower ball of water from the shore balances the flow of the upper ball of water towards the shore - this means that any rowing movements will move you away from the shore much faster than in the absence of a storm: the sea, as it were, pushes you out of itself in the storm attack zone and draws you in you into yourself in the outflow zone. The stronger the storm, the larger the outflow zone, and the more intense it allows you to move away from the coast.

That day I discovered very late that I was far from the shore. I turned to face the shore and swam back. At the same time, I noticed that the storm was getting stronger. Having sailed some distance, having received several overflows and taking a sip of salt water, I realized that I was losing strength and could not swim. We sailed together with a friend, a work colleague. I asked him to help because he was an athlete and a better swimmer than me. However, in such a storm it is impossible to help anyone at all: any wave immediately throws you and does not allow one to lead the other in some way. I realized that I would have to rely only on my own strength. He advised me to calm down and swam to the shore for rescuers. As I said, I swam, turning towards the shore along the wave, but the overflowing wave knocked my breath away and I swallowed water several times. Turning my back to the oncoming waves, I could not track them, besides, the strength of my hands is only enough to saddle the wave, but you also need to row to the shore. I turned around to face the waves, back to the shore, and swam on my back. Now I could see every incoming wave, saddle it with my hands, and swim to the shore with my feet. So I swam for a long time, until I felt that I was completely losing strength, but fortunately the coast was already close. Now it remains only to get out of the sea.

It is very difficult for an exhausted person to get out of the stormy sea. You need to get out on the first try, otherwise the wave will drag you into the whirlpool zone and spin there. Considering that the forces are running out, loss of consciousness is guaranteed in the whirlpool, and then the only hope is for the rescuers on the shore, who, having seen all this, will be able to pull you out. Intuitively, I felt that my friend had already swum to the shore and, if anything, would help me. I did not think about death, my brain worked amazingly clearly, and my arms and legs worked automatically. Just before the shore, I turned my back to the sea and headed for the stones: it was dangerous, since the wave could easily just hit me on the stones. But on the other hand, if I managed to get behind the stones, it would be more difficult for me to wash out into the sea. I caught a big wave, saddled it and in one go was behind the rocks. I remember everything else as if in a fog - I remember how I held on to the stones while two or three waves overwhelmed me, I remember how I showed my friend and rescuers running towards me that everything was fine, I remember how I walked around the stones with cotton legs and walked along the shore.

Hands did not rise, legs barely walked, there was a noise in my head. I barely made it to my hotel room, drank some very sugary water, took an aspirin. Several times I told friends and relatives about what happened, they asked about the feeling of death, about whether this adventure would change anything in my life. I replied that this would hardly change anything, since I was not very scared and swam out on my own, without outside help, so I would not need to reproach myself for being weak. And I didn’t think about death, I thought about life, I tried to survive ...

Sergey Datsyuk
(C) Project "Cultural Provocations"
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Warm and gentle sea - this phrase can already be considered well-established ...

However, “warm” is how lucky, but “gentle” - such an impression is often deceptive.

The sea must be taken seriously, and swimming well is not enough for this. In order not to become a victim of the “gentle sea” and not to drown in it, you need to know and follow the basic safety rules.

In the global community there is a system for alerting the safety of the beaches with the help of flags. Their colors correspond to the colors of the traffic lights - green, yellow, red.

Green indicates that the sea is currently calm, there is no threat to swimmers. The yellow flag calls for caution: you should not swim far and swim alone. Red is a complete ban on swimming, because it is dangerous in this place and at this time. Sometimes two red flags are hung out - increased danger, it is forbidden not only to swim, but also to approach the sea.

The red flag warns of various dangers, not only from high waves, as is sometimes thought, but also from marine life, such as sharks, or underwater currents. Therefore, trust professional lifeguards and do not assess the state of the sea yourself.

Rule two, well-known

Everyone knows that you can’t swim while intoxicated. However, the statistics inexorably proves that the majority of accidents on the beaches occur with drunken swimmers. A drunk person is not able to objectively assess the situation, calculate his strength, which leads to disastrous consequences. This rule, we believe, does not need additional comments.

Rule three: don't take risks and don't panic!

During high tide and waves, one should not swim far into the sea. At this time, a very dangerous reverse flow is formed in the water. Because of it, swimmers often drown. Water can take a person with great force and begin to carry him to the open sea. At the same time, a person often begins to desperately row to the shore and is exhausted. In such cases, you should not panic, but try to swim parallel to the shore in order to swim out of the reverse flow. Its width usually does not exceed 2-5 meters. If you get caught in a whirlpool, the best remedy is to take in a lot of air, dive in and try to swerve to the side.

Very often, those who swim behind the buoys or swim outside the specially designated swimming area get into such dangerous situations. The danger increases when a person does not know how to swim well, but at the same time swims far, relying too much on air mattresses or circles. They can be blown away, and far from the coast it is very dangerous.

Without panicking in a difficult situation, knowing and following these simple rules, you can avoid troubles and accidents at sea or the ocean, and return home rested, tanned and happy.

Among the southern and western Slavs, Mora is a demon that strangles and torments a sleeping person, leaning on his chest at night.

Poles and Kashubians believe that if six or seven daughters are born in a family in a row, then the latter becomes Mora.

According to Czech beliefs, children born with teeth become Mora, and according to Serbian and Croatian, children born in a “shirt”, usually bloody or blue.

Serbs believe that Mora is a girl born in a bloody shirt, which the midwife burned on fire.

Serbs and Croats also believe that Mora is the daughter of a Veshtitsa, and also that children conceived by a woman on a holiday or during menstruation become Moras.

According to Polish beliefs, the girl from which Mora is obtained has two souls - good and evil, while the evil soul flies out of the body of the sleeping Mora and harms people, but Mora herself does not suspect anything.

Mora's demonic properties manifest themselves at night, and the rest of the time she is no different from those around her.

Western Slavs believe that Mory strangles people against their will when their hour comes.

According to Bulgarian and Polish beliefs, Mory are the souls of people who died without confession, buried in violation of the funeral ritual, as well as children of unbaptized or incorrectly baptized babies.

The Poles, Czechs and Lusatians also know beliefs about Mors - men.

The Poles believe that Mora is invisible or looks like an indistinct human shadow, she has a transparent body, she is thin, bony, she has abnormally long legs, arms, nails.

According to Serbian beliefs, Mora can take the form of a night butterfly or a mosquito, as well as animals associated with the other world: a bat, a cat, a mouse.

Mora climbs onto the chest of a sleeping person, crushes and torments him, drinks his blood, and in women sucks milk from their breasts.

According to some beliefs, there are several varieties of Pestilence: one sucks and chokes people, another sucks the sap of trees, the third - vegetables and weeds.

Mora's victim turns pale, languishes, and soon dies.

Mora can enter the room through any, even the smallest opening, including through the keyhole.

The Poles and Kashubians believe that Mora moves in a sieve, on a broomstick, a wheelbarrow wheel, a reel, a spinning wheel (cf.

spinning wheel) or in a cart with one wheel.

A knife, a needle stuck in clothes, an ax or other iron object, garlic, a belt placed over a blanket, bread, a mirror are used as amulets from Mora.

To stop visiting Morata, you need to recognize her.

To do this, the person whom Mora is strangling must tell her: “Come in the morning, I will give you bread and salt.”

The first woman to arrive in the morning will be Mora.

She needs to be given the promise, after which she will no longer come to this house.

Morata can be disposed of by trapping the animal she has turned into and mutilating it.

A newborn with teeth was given a piece of wood in his mouth so that the harmfulness of the child would pass onto it.

Mora comes from the double souls.

Polish pestilence strangles sleeping people.

The Croats baptized the mora three times with a fico, after spitting on it, which tormented the child.

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