{"id":2284204,"date":"2024-06-26T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seven-tourists-in-four-days-killed-by-florida-rip-currents-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T18:18:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:18:48","slug":"seven-tourists-in-four-days-killed-by-florida-rip-currents-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seven-tourists-in-four-days-killed-by-florida-rip-currents-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven tourists in four days killed by Florida rip currents &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseven-tourists-in-four-days-killed-by-florida-rip-currents-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2284204&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Debbie Szymanski, a 60-year-old woman\u200c from Missouri, died while \u2063vacationing in Panama City Beach, Florida, becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-ringleader-in-plot-to-kidnap-gov-gretchen-whitmer-sentenced-to-nearly-20-years-in-prison\/\" title=\"Second Ringleader In The Plot To Kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer Sentenced to Nearly Twenty Years In Prison\">seventh person<\/a>\u2063 to drown due to rip currents in the\u200d area within a span of four days. Szymanski was found unresponsive in\u200d the ocean by \u2063her family on a\u200c Sunday morning and despite efforts to save her, she was \u200bpronounced dead after being taken to the hospital. The report highlights the \u2064dangers\u2064 posed by rip currents,\u2063 noting that three Alabama tourists also drowned\u2064 under similar circumstances recently. The incidents underscore \u2062the lethal threat of rip\u2062 currents, particularly\u200b in popular beach destinations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Debbie Szymanski, a 60-year-old Missouri woman on vacation in Panama City Beach, has become the seventh drowning victim from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Florida<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dangerous-rip-currents-along-atlantic-coast-spur-rescues-at-least-8-deaths\/\" title=\"Deadly rip currents on Atlantic coast prompt rescues, claim 8 lives.\">deadly rip currents<\/a> in four days.<\/p>\n<p>Szymanski entered the water Sunday morning before being found unresponsive in the waves by her family members around 11:30 a.m. They tried dragging her to shore as EMS and Bay County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies responded, but ultimately they were unsuccessful in their attempted resuscitation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSzymanski was taken to a local hospital,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s department reported, \u201cwhere she was pronounced deceased.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Syzmanski\u2019s death marks the seventh <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-dead-dozens-injured-after-suspected-human-smuggling-boat-carrying-migrants-capsizes-near-san-diego\/\" title=\"4 Dead, Dozens Injured After Suspected Human Smuggling Boat Carrying Migrants Capsizes Near San Diego\">rip current<\/a>-related drowning since Thursday and the fifth in the popular beach town alone. Just a 15-minute drive down the coast, three Alabama tourists were pulled from shore by rip currents on Friday. Harold Hunter, Marius Richardson, and Jemonda Ray, all 24 or 25, had just settled into their Airbnb at the Watercrest Condominiums before an evening swim turned deadly and they were pulled out to sea.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>This image provided by NOAA, pictures a harmless green dye used to show a rip current. Rip currents are powerful, narrow channels of fast-moving water that are prevalent along the East, Gulf, and West coasts of the U.S., as well as along the shores of the Great Lakes. About 100 people drown from rip currents along U.S. beaches each year, according to the U.S. Lifesaving Association. (NOAA via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A day before, 19-year-old Ryker Milton, a former high school soccer player visiting from Oklahoma, went swimming with a friend until he, too, drowned from the dangerous currents. Around the same time, across the state, a similar story unfolded for Brian Warter and Erica Wishart after they ventured out into the Atlantic Ocean with their children.<\/p>\n<p>Each of these deaths occurred during \u201csingle red flag\u201d days. When a red flag hangs from the lifeguard towers, beware of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tropical-storm-claudette-floods-parts-of-gulf-coast\/\" title=\"Tropical storm Claudette floods parts of Gulf Coast\">high surf<\/a> and dangerous currents.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, 91 swimmers died as a result of rip currents. According to the National Weather Service, more people drowned last year from Panama City currents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/graphics\/2024\/06\/24\/what-is-a-rip-current\/74193437007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>than at any other beach<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Distinct from riptides or undertows, rip currents push swimmers quickly away from shore. Caused by sandbars or swales on the ocean floor, geographical disturbances can cause the currents to break in an abnormal way. This tide can pull swimmers out deep into the ocean, sometimes hundreds of yards. Rip currents rush perpendicular to the shore and often force swimmers beneath the surface where they eventually drown.<\/p>\n<p>If caught in a rip current, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recommends swimming parallel to the beach rather than straight toward shore.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debbie Szymanski, 60, from Missouri, drowned in Panama City Beach, becoming the seventh victim of Florida&#8217;s lethal rip currents in just four days. She entered the water on Sunday morning and was later discovered unresponsive by her family, who attempted to pull her to shore around 11:30 a.m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3195,"featured_media":2284205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rip-current.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32933,32935,32934,32076],"class_list":["post-2284204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-florida-rip-currents","tag-seven-killed","tag-tourist-fatalities","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rip-current.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}