I got caught in a Rip tide bodysurfing when I was 14 years old in Monterey Bay, I luckily remembered to swim out to sea with the current and swam back down a little ways to get out of it and then swam back in ,but the feel of that current was so strong , I felt like I was being sucked down and out by a giant Vacuum, Real scary as I remember during the summers there that dozen or more people expired to them each year up and down the coast