That helped him to figure out where to go and not to panic. I stated that the other swimmer was not and he went to the edge of rip current and guided him in verbally. Of note - one man on the beach remarked that he didn't know if we were in distress or were having fun out there! When I emerged out of the water, he asked if everyone was okay. One of the first swimmers out ran for the lifeguards and they did drive down the beach and administered oxygen to the inexperienced swimmer. Another thing was that I would be able to touch the ground easily then not, then be able to touch again - unrelated to the depth of the waves. It was almost as if the sand was being pulled out from under my feet when I was standing around in deeper water. The tug of the water felt different on my legs and feet. Even being a good swimmer and comfortable in the water, I found it difficult to get myself to shore! There were some signs pre-event I noticed in hindsight. Fortunately, he did not panic but used all of his swimming skills and emotional fortitude. Part of what was going on was that he did not recognize what had happened and continued to try to touch the bottom instead of starting to swim in- inexperience. He thought he was going to drown and he easily could have. (Swim parallel to the shore until you find the place where the rip current stops then head in to the shore.) One person, in particular, was not a confident swimmer and he ended up taking a lot longer to get in and almost gave up. Most of us were able to swim or be swept toward shore the way one is supposed to. It happened so fast we didn't notice until we were out there! I think we jumped a wave and were taken then. All of a sudden we weren't where we had been, we were still together but much farther out and couldn't touch the bottom any more. It was mid afternoon, the waves were large and wonderful and the water was warm. The final time was after the tide had shifted to outgoing. We had been jumping waves and body surfing all day, in and out of the water. This is my second review of South Shore Beach and all stands as before except that we had an experience where 6 of us were carried out on a rip current. So very disappointed with this experience. Absolutely ridiculous! I will be enjoying some Massachusetts beaches from now on. Make up your mind, is it 12, 1, 2 don’t just throw out numbers if you don’t know what your talking about! OK, I am a Rhode Island resident, I pay Rhode Island taxes and I wanted to enjoy a Rhode Island beach and I could not do that. She had just told us 20 minutes later 1:30-2pm now it’s 12pm. STILL, she would not let us in proceeding to NOW tell us it won’t be open until 12pm. We drove around (wasting more gas and more time) and went back about 20 minutes later as we had talked to our friends who had been there waiting that some people had left. AGAIN, she knew our situation and she still did not care. She THEN told us to try back around 1:30-2pm. R U SERIOUS?!? Mind you she knew we had been there 2 hours prior and had to drive home and drive back. she did not have any care in the world about it as told us we still could not go in. We told her that the people we were meeting had a spot for us.
#Tide little compton ri full#
When we arrived at 10:30am the same parking attendant proceed to tell us that the lot was full and could not get in. They said the person on the side of them had just left. I reached out to Our friends who had been waiting for us there already that we would be pulling in the lot. We drive ANOTHER hour back home, dropped our dog off and drove ANOTHER hour back. We had another couple we were meeting there so we told them we had to go home to drop the dog off and we’d be back. We live about an hour away from the beach. As we approached the parking attendant she told us that dogs are not allowed on the beach. We arrived there around 8:30am with our dog on Sunday July 29th.
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