You can easily drown in ankle-deep water. I almost did, last year, in a situation very similar to the one in the video and I've been swimming since I was a toddler and had my fins on that day.
Deceptively familiar situations where you think the sea looks safe when it's not, are the most dangerous, because you end up doing the totally wrong thing and exhausting yourself fighting the waves or putting yourself in mortal danger without realising it- until it's too late.
And just because people are laughing and playing in the sea a few meters away doesn't mean you're safe, either. People drown all the time in crowded swimming pools with dozens of people around them who are not, themselves, drowning.
Also, when there's a wave, the water is shallow for a while and then it's suddendly deep. And if the waves are a couple of meters high, it can be too deep. If you can't float at that point, you're toast.
You can easily drown in ankle-deep water. I almost did, last year, in a situation very similar to the one in the video and I've been swimming since I was a toddler and had my fins on that day.
Deceptively familiar situations where you think the sea looks safe when it's not, are the most dangerous, because you end up doing the totally wrong thing and exhausting yourself fighting the waves or putting yourself in mortal danger without realising it- until it's too late.
And just because people are laughing and playing in the sea a few meters away doesn't mean you're safe, either. People drown all the time in crowded swimming pools with dozens of people around them who are not, themselves, drowning.
Also, when there's a wave, the water is shallow for a while and then it's suddendly deep. And if the waves are a couple of meters high, it can be too deep. If you can't float at that point, you're toast.