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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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it's really hard to know exactly what happened.
Imagine that one of the first rules of being a rescue person is not to endanger yourself.
There's plenty that could go wrong rescuing someone who's potentially violent and doesn't necessarily want to be rescued and neck deep in the ocean.
It sounds like an easy rescue but it would be very difficult to defend yourself if things went the wrong way.
I was BSA lifeguard certified when I was a kid and a bigger part of the training than you'd think was about how to make sure that a panicking, drowning person doesn't kill the both of you. One of the things they drill into your head over and over is that it's really easy to get overwhelmed because in the water there's nothing to push off of, and if you let yourself get overwhelmed two people are going to die instead of one.