Here in Florida, we constantly hear about someone drowning in a rip current. The reason they drown is that they do what's intuitive; they swim toward shore. Unfortunately, what they end up doing when they swim toward shore is exhausting themselves and then they panic and drown. Game over.
To save themselves, all they really have to do is surrender to the current, and float a little further away from shore, then swim laterally to get out of the current. It seems so easy when you're not the one who's panicking in an outgoing current.
44tries, you're panicking and you're going to exhaust yourself and drown. Relax a little and go with the flow.
