Hurricane Erin is barreling along the Atlantic seaboard and bringing with it dangerously high water levels, waves and rip currents. The safest move is to avoid the water altogether, but knowing what to do if you are caught in a rip is just as vital. Too often swimmers don’t see the danger coming.

On Good Friday 2017, Wyatt Werneth got a call from his wife, who had gone grocery shopping with their daughter: The car’s broken down. Please rescue us.

Werneth hopped in his vehicle to assist, driving by Patrick Space Force Base near Cape Canaveral, Florida. From the A1A highway, Werneth said you can see the ocean.

What he saw next was a twist of fate that led to a much more urgent kind of rescue.

“I could see someone waving in traffic as I was going by. … I pulled in to see what was going on

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