Has ocean drowning increased, or does it just seem so?

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up going to the Jersey shore and I’m 100% sure my parents didn’t know anything about rip currents. My dad never really went to the ocean as a kid and my mom just doesn’t think bad things can happen to her. I was never taught how dangerous the ocean can be.

I wonder if there are just more people traveling now, so there are more people at the beach who don’t understand the risks.

I also grew up going to the Jersey shore and my parents definitely did know about undertow. This was not top secret knowledge.

Undertow and rip currents are different things, but many people use them interchangeably and still don’t understand the difference.

Fortunately, understanding the precise uses of the terms was not essential to teaching me how to extricate myself from the respective phenomena.

Congrats, you get a medal for having responsible parents and advanced vocabulary.

If by “advanced,” you meant “pompous,” well ok