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718. Offshore currents (2)

Looking at the anxious fishermen, the tourists were confused.

They looked at the sea calmly, and the sea water was slowly surging, layer after layer of white waves rushed towards the shore, looking just an ordinary high tide.

Moreover, the beach where the villagers pointed their hands at was even quieter, with waves swaying around them. The sea water rushing over here was relatively calm, and there were no waves, and it slowly surged up.

A layman watches the excitement, while an expert sees the tricks.

Compared with the old sea ghosts in the village, Ao Muyang can only be considered half an expert. He didn't see any problem with the waves, but he understood the words the villagers shouted: Offshore current!

Offshore current is also called fault tide, and is also called crack current abroad.

This situation is mainly because when the waves hit the coast, they collapsed due to obstacles from land. A large amount of sea water surged onto the land and had to find a way back to the sea. However, due to the push of subsequent waves, these sea waters will move in a direction parallel to the beach in the early stage, and finally gathered into one or several powerful water flows to retreat back to the sea, and this process continued to cycle.

During its cycle, there is no problem in the first half, and the high tide is like this, and the sea water surges toward the land.

The problem occurs in the second half of the cycle process, that is, a large amount of sea water flows parallel to the beach, and a tide surges up behind it. The collision between the two sides produces a spiraling force, like a vortex.

In this case, if someone stays within the range of the influence of the trend, it is easy to be swept into the sea.

Ao Muyang remembers that he had read a data that was obtained from a long-term research by maritime emergency agencies in Brazil and Australia. The data shows that about 90% of drowning in Oceania and South America occurs due to offshore flow.

There are also relevant statistics from the United States that say about 150 people die every year due to offshore currents, which even exceeds the sum of the fatal numbers of storms, hurricanes and tornadoes!

Seeing an offshore current appear, he ran into the sea as soon as possible.

The silent appearance of the offshore current is because it has no obvious manifestation on land, so it is generally believed that it will suddenly appear without any defense, and it may occur under any weather conditions. Only when someone is trapped in it will he realize that he is in trouble.

But at that time it will be more difficult to get rid of the trouble. The typical offshore current of seawater flow is about 2 meters per second, exceeding the swimming speed of ordinary people.

Because the flow rate is very fast and it has suction like a vortex, once it falls into it, not only ordinary water players and even lifeguards are often pulled to the outer sea, causing drowning.

That is, this time there were many people on the beach and many veteran fishermen stayed here. They had experience. When they saw the tides that appeared surging along the sides, and the sea water was darker and there were almost no waves, they judged the identity of the offshore current early: There is a local proverb about this kind of disaster, called "White waves and green water, whoever wants to go down will regret it."

Otherwise, there would be so many people on the beach today, and the offshore current suddenly showed their power, many people would definitely be in danger.

Hearing the villagers' voices were anxious and full of fear, the tourists knew that the matter was going on, and they left the beach and ran above the beach.

Ao Muyang walked backwards, and he ran to the beach and shouted: "You must leave the sea water and not let the waves touch it, especially the children. Hurry up the children!"

The offshore current has small vortexes, which are dangerous even if they just fall into the knees of a person. The hidden vortexes under the water will overturn the person. At this time, it will be dangerous if they fall to the ground and fall into the water.

As he and the villagers shouted, people left the rising land, but they were able to leave in time because they were already on the shore, and there were still people in the sea at this time.

The people in the sea discovered the danger, and a total of two people stayed in the sea. They were shocked and tried to raise their heads and expose the sea surface, then rushed to the shore with their hands and feet.

There were their family members on the shore who were anxious and jumped up: "Come on, help me, my husband is in the water! Dad, hurry up, come up quickly, there is danger!"

Ao Wenchang's father Ao Qianyao rushed to the shore and shouted loudly: "You two are stable, keep calm! Don't swim upwards anymore, it's useless to fight against nature! Listen to me, don't try to swim back to the shore. Keep calm, will you step on water? Step on water, reveal your head! Can you float? Keep calm, let's go over the boat!"

His voice was very loud, but it was rising at the tide. The tide hit the shore and made a loud noise to cover up his voice. The two people in the sea were already panicked. They wanted to go to the shore against the current, but as they swam, they were further away from the shore...

This is the terrible thing about the offshore current. It will roll people back into the sea, and its flow rate is faster than the person's swimming speed. Sleeping into the offshore current is like falling into quicksand. The more you struggle, the deeper you will fall.

The reason for this is that the sea water flows in the offshore current is inconsistent, which is a balance itself, and human struggles will break this balance!

Ao Muyang was about to jump into the water, and he knew that it was too late to send a ship, because the two of them in the sea would be too panic and would struggle more and more. When the sea water choked into their mouths, the two of them would be finished!

Seeing him getting into the water, Ao Qianyao quickly grabbed him: "Don't go into the water rashly, village chief, let's drive the boat to throw the lifebuoy. If people go down, they have to fall..."

"It's okay, I can handle it!" Ao Muyang pushed him away and jumped into the water amid the nervous screams of tourists and villagers.

When looking at the shore, offshore currents are no different from ordinary sea currents, but after deep into the sea, you will find that the difference is different. The bottom of the offshore currents is lower than both sides. White waves on the surface of the sea water rush towards the shore, as if ordinary tides are rising, but the water under the sea water flows into the middle of the sea, which is like a low tide. This is why the sea water vortex appears.

He immediately found the two people in the sea, and the golden elixir reversed, and Ao Muyang accelerated to approach a man.

Offshore currents are more troublesome to ordinary people, and this is nothing to them. When they returned to the South China Sea a few years ago, they encountered a sea storm. The scene was much more terrifying than it is now.

Getting closer to the panicked man, Ao Muyang tied his chest from behind, and his arms passed through his armpits, just avoiding his arms.

He floated to the water to relieve the man first, and then when he saw the general chasing him, he pushed the man to the general and said, "Brother, hold the dog's belly and don't touch its limbs!"

The man was panicked, but he could see that he had good swimming skills and good psychological quality. After finding someone came to save him, he temporarily settled down. He hugged the general and stepped on the water and stopped struggling.

Another person is in a worse situation, he has already sunk into the water!
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