Thank you sir! Yeah, to this day I won’t go out in the ocean past my waist.

For anyone wondering what the trick to dealing with a riptide is, here is my guide:

STEP 1: Don’t ever go in the ocean

It’s really that’s simple I’ve found!

I watched a documentary that this merchant marine made about his time on a cargo ship and he said when you go through he Suez Canal, bribes are essentially mandatory. If you don’t pay off the officials they won’t let you pass, so the cost is actually just factored into the overall freight cost now by the company in advance. Crazy