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4-year-old boy is swept out to sea while walking on the Outer Banks with his mom

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A 4-year-old boy was walking with his mother in shallow waters on a beach in Kitty Hawk, N.C., on Wednesday afternoon when a wave came crashing onto shore with ferocity.

The current knocked the family off their feet, ripping the young boy away from his mother and carrying him out to sea. Scouring the water for her son as another wave rushed in, the mother “lost sight of him in the surf,” U.S. Coast Guard officials said. He was gone.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/4...banks-with-his-mom/ar-AAwpvDl?ocid=spartanntp
 
It was a warm and sunny spring afternoon on the Outer Banks, but the surf was intense, with waves 4 to 6 feet high. The mother and son were walking alone when they were knocked down.
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Don't mess with the Ocean. Sad story, but people sometimes don't think of the fury Mother Nature can exhibit.
 
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i am herdman said:
It was a warm and sunny spring afternoon on the Outer Banks, but the surf was intense, with waves 4 to 6 feet high. The mother and son were walking alone when they were knocked down.
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Don't mess with the Ocean. Sad story, but people sometimes don't think of the fury Mother Nature can exhibit.
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The ocean will kill you. The mountains will kill you. The desert will kill you. Tourists do dumb stuff. It's like those people whose kid was gator dinner at Disney. People are not used to being exposed to raw nature and bad stuff happens because they have zero clue what to be aware of.

4-6 foot waves and rip currents? That's dangerous for adults. A four year old didn't stand a chance.
 
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Raoul Duke MU said:
The ocean will kill you. The mountains will kill you. The desert will kill you. Tourists do dumb stuff. It's like those people whose kid was gator dinner at Disney. People are not used to being exposed to raw nature and bad stuff happens because they have zero clue what to be aware of.

4-6 foot waves and rip currents? That's dangerous for adults. A four year old didn't stand a chance.
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Amazingly these two can somehow question a mother over the death of her son but can’t seem to find any fault with anything our POTUS does or has ever done. Smh
 
Where is there a discussion or explanation of rip currents in the article? A rip current would most likely occur slightly farther beyond “the edge of the water.

It speaks of a 4-6 ft wave knocking them over as they were “walking on edge of water”????

If you’re walking “on edge” of water....a surprise “4-6ft” wave knocking child out of hands just doesn’t seem logical either.

Would the mother also not have been pulled by a “rip” current after being smacked by a 4-6ft wave? No mention of her being pulled out in any way.

Again, maybe it’s the way the reporter has written the story but components of it just don’t add up IMO.
 
raleighherdfan said:
Where is there a discussion or explanation of rip currents in the article? A rip current would most likely occur slightly farther beyond “the edge of the water.

It speaks of a 4-6 ft wave knocking them over as they were “walking on edge of water”????

If you’re walking “on edge” of water....a surprise “4-6ft” wave knocking child out of hands just doesn’t seem logical either.

Would the mother also not have been pulled by a “rip” current after being smacked by a 4-6ft wave? No mention of her being pulled out in any way.

Again, maybe it’s the way the reporter has written the story but components of it just don’t add up IMO.
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Read it again, and think like a normal person when you do.
 
Marine03 said:
Read it again, and think like a normal person when you do.
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I am thinking like a person who has walked on a beach a thousand times. In good and or bad conditions. The article is either not mentioning some things or the explanation doesn’t add up.
 
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raleighherdfan said:
Not so amazingly you would turn the death of a child into a political discussion. Stay on topic.
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Bears weight on this discussion considering the idiocy of you two somehow attempting to suggest foul play over what everyone else who read it can clearly see. Either you two only see fault in everyone that you don’t believe in, or you just can’t read
 
raleighherdfan said:
I am thinking like a person who has walked on a beach a thousand times. In good and or bad conditions. The article is either not mentioning some things or the explanation doesn’t add up.
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Well so have I, and just a few short weeks ago in Florida a man drowned while attempting to save his 14 year old daughter who was caught in the current. It happens every year. But hey pal I’m sure when names are released you can catch the mom on Facebook and tell her story doesn’t add up, based off your previous experiences of long walks on the shore.
 
Marine03 said:
Well so have I, and just a few short weeks ago in Florida a man drowned while attempting to save his 14 year old daughter who was caught in the current. It happens every year. But hey pal I’m sure when names are released you can catch the mom on Facebook and tell her story doesn’t add up, based off your previous experiences of long walks on the shore.
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Did I ever say people don’t drown in rip currents. Christ, the political climate has you lefties wound up.

I also leave the stalking up to guys like you and cuntry.
 
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Marine03 said:
Nothing criminal either but you’re doing a hell of a job attempting to make it look as such.
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You probably believed the story of a mothers car driving itself into the ocean a couple years ago too (with the kids in the back).
 
Love the Banks. Reluctant to swim there though. Roughest waves and current I've ever been around, and I've been to a lot of beaches. It's not called the Graveyard of the Atlantic for nothing. Shifting sandbars, Gulf Stream meeting Northern Current, steep drop-offs just offshore = terrible water conditions.
 
no kidding Raleigh. it does sound odd. these simple minded leftist chiming gives us an idea how they come up with political thoughts.

i’m just surprised none of them have explained 4 foot waves regularly hit. at edge of water due to global warming. if only someone would write it in a newspaper one of them could repeat it
 
raleighherdfan said:
You probably believed the story of a mothers car driving itself into the ocean a couple years ago too (with the kids in the back).
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Not even remotely close to the same here.

An adult can survive a large wave age stringer rip current where a child can’t. Therefore she would need to be fished out.

The coast guard commented on just how bad the rio current is. That’s clearly stated in the article

What’s next from you morons? The Disney family tied a chicken wing to the kids foot to entice the gator to attack?
 
ThunderCat98 said:
Love the Banks. Reluctant to swim there though. Roughest waves and current I've ever been around, and I've been to a lot of beaches. It's not called the Graveyard of the Atlantic for nothing. Shifting sandbars, Gulf Stream meeting Northern Current, steep drop-offs just offshore = terrible water conditions.
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It definitely is crazy water over there. I’ve just never heard of someone strolling the “waters edge” and suddenly being blasted by a 4-6 ft or being blasted by a 4-6 ft wave (while being much deeper than the waters edge) and not being pulled under somewhat.
 
raleighherdfan said:
Where is there a discussion or explanation of rip currents in the article? A rip current would most likely occur slightly farther beyond “the edge of the water.

It speaks of a 4-6 ft wave knocking them over as they were “walking on edge of water”????

If you’re walking “on edge” of water....a surprise “4-6ft” wave knocking child out of hands just doesn’t seem logical either.

Would the mother also not have been pulled by a “rip” current after being smacked by a 4-6ft wave? No mention of her being pulled out in any way.

Again, maybe it’s the way the reporter has written the story but components of it just don’t add up IMO.
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I spend countless days at the coast. Completely possible. Especially if the tide is right and water is high

A child can be swept away in ankle deep water
 
Marine03 said:
The coast guard commented on just how bad the rio current is.
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The coast guard also admitted in the article they “couldn’t tell you how many people get caught in rip currents“ in the kind of shallow water she was supposedly walking in.

Marine03 said:
Not even remotely close to the same here.
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Definitely more aligned than you wanting to talk about Trump/politics in this thread.
 
raleighherdfan said:
The coast guard also admitted in the article they “couldn’t tell you how many people get caught in rip currents“ in the kind of shallow water she was supposedly walking in.



Definitely more aligned than you wanting to talk about Trump/politics in this thread.
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He also said it’s a “danger next to the ocean” and “it’s a tragic case.”

But keep thinking you’re the expert and don’t forget to state your case in public
 
raleighherdfan said:
Who suggested that it wasn’t?
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Uggh. First of all I am not a small child. Second, the wave high was stated. When a wave comes in it pushes water up and can go let's say to the dune. That water is going to have force and then go back out pulling as it goes.. I have been knocked over in knee deep water while surf fishing because of the current. I am 6'2" 235 lbs. That has happened with smaller waves. Not the wave, the current.

Don't **** with the ocean. Entirely possible with the current with a small child.

There is a reason they pull tourist out of the ocean every year when there are rip current warnings. Waves might be 2 footers but the current is strong.
 
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Marine showing his liberal side once again, but like Bucky, we're to believe he's a staunch conservative.

My take, looking at it from an investigative side, is that something might be fishy here.

Keep an eye on the story and see how it plays out. I'm sure the detectives are keeping an open mind when thoroughly looking into the details.
 
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This story reminds me of a couple years ago when the kid was eaten by an alligator at Disney. Very tragic and stupid of the parents. I wouldn't wade in a damn swamp, nor would I walk my toddler along a beachfront with 4-6 ft waves crashing in. That's the part which doesn't make sense. These waves didn't all of the sudden start with no warning. It's not like they couldn't have noticed how rough the tide was as they were walking across the beach toward the edge of the water.
 
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mlblack16. said:
This story reminds me of a couple years ago when the kid was eaten by an alligator at Disney. Very tragic and stupid of the parents. I wouldn't wade in a damn swamp, nor would I walk my toddler along a beachfront with 4-6 ft waves crashing in. That's the part which doesn't make sense. These waves didn't all of the sudden start with no warning. It's not like they couldn't have noticed how rough the tide was as they were walking across the beach toward the edge of the water.
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Bingo.
 
Raoul Duke MU said:
One time at Myrtle I went swimming on a red flag day. Just fvcking around I ended up a mile down the beach. It took an effort to swim to shore that day. The kicker is the seas didn't look that bad. The currents were brutal, though.
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just think how bad it would have turned out for you, had you not been wearing your floaties.
 
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