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LPT: When caught in a current do NOT fight it and swim against it, swim parallel to the shore until you escape its pull Unfortunately this LPT comes after a very sad Sunday afternoon. We are on vacation in Sri Lanka and yesterday afternoon a mother and her two children were swept out in a current. We went out on surfboards and got the children, who are thankfully both ok. They had become separated from their mother and unfortunately before we could get to her she…

Reminder to not swim everywhere The beaches in Rosignano Solvay (Toscana in Italy) are extremely polluted but filled with oblivious tourists anyway. The company Solvay dumps poisonous chemicals straight into the ocean and has been doing so for 110 years. It kills plants and animals. It also bleached the grey sand into a pretty white. For us humans it causes cardiovascular dise…