SDCali wrote: A while ago there was a guy kitesurfing who ended up out near one of the oil platforms off the coast. People get caught in them all the time, but the one's who survive are the ones who remain calm either just wait it out or paddle/swim parallel to the shore.
How far are the oil platforms?? And was he blown out there or dragged in a rip??
I know how easy it is to panic if the sea about you is a churning mass of water, you're being sucked out and to paddle sideways takes you into the breaker zone.....
