Rescued At Sea!

How I came close to drowning

When I was in my twenties I went on holiday with my boyfriend. We went to a pretty town in the Devon countryside. It was a place my mother had taken us, kids, when we were small. I was so pleased to be able to go there with my boyfriend and show him the town.

We both smoked cigarettes so when we met a couple with kids, we asked if they would rather us smoke away from their young children. They did and we moved away to finish our cigarettes.

They appreciated our concern and so we got talking and we hung out with them a bit. One day, they were going off to do something together in town, so myself and my boyfriend, who we will call Fred, went to the beach.

At the beach, we decided to go for a swim. In the UK they put flags out to show when and where it is safe to swim. The flags indicated it was fine to take a dip so we went in. We mucked about and splashed around, but we both liked swimming, and we swam out a bit further.

It wasn’t long after I noticed we were rather a long way from the beach. And there weren’t any other people in the water. We were being dragged out to sea!

I tried to swim to shore as best as I could but the current was too strong. It seemed like I was trying as hard as I could, but the shoreline didn’t come closer. Fred stayed with me, encouraging me to swim, but I wasn’t going anywhere.

The sea was frighteningly strong, the currents dragging us powerfully away from the shore. Next thing I knew there was a ski surf next to me and I was being rescued.

A big hairy guy wearing a rescue vest was steering it. Fred told him he could swim to shore, he was a good swimmer.

Rescue guy told me to grab hold of the rope that was around the edge of the ski surf and haul myself aboard. Now I wasn’t as fat then as I am now, I would guess I weighed about 180lbs. Anyway, I grabbed and hauled myself onto the thing, and held on.

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