How can providers swim out of a regulatory rip tide?
When I was a kid, I loved to swim. I adored it, and, unlike a lot of things, I actually was good at it. I counted the days for winter to pass so that I could dive back in. To my parents’ chagrin, I’d stare at the thermometer with all the monomania a small fry can muster (which, by the way, is considerable) until it reached the 70 degree benchmark my parents required for swimming, at which point I’d jump for joy while they rolled their eyes. However, when I reached the ripe old age of 11 years old, my parents moved us from often-frigid Northern Ohio to the sunny shores of Southern California. You’d think living near the Pacific would come as a boon to a kid who thought he was part fish, but I had to learn to swim all over again. Much to my consternation, I learned the ocean is bigger — and more dangerous — than the neighborhood pool. A specific concern was rip tides, which can suck swimmers out to sea and keep them there until they can no longer tread water and thusly perish. Local scho
