Dramatic black series in a seaside town in Florida: five tourists died in four days. All drowned, victims of the dangerous local currents.
The latest victim of the waters of Panama City Beach is a 60-year-old woman who came from Missouri, reports the “Ney York Post”. Last Sunday, Debbie Szymanski went swimming around 11:30 a.m. Not seeing her return, her family became worried and ended up finding her, rescuing her, and bringing her back to the beach. But it was too late: she was declared dead at the hospital to which she had just been urgently admitted.
Two days earlier, on Friday, three young fathers who had just arrived from Alabama lost their lives. Around 8 p.m., Harold Denzel Hunter, 25, Jemonda Ray, 24, and Marius Richardson, also 24, jumped into the ocean for a “quick swim.” Then they disappeared. Emergency services found their three bodies hours later.
The day before, Thursday, it was a very young man who drowned. Vacationer from Oklahoma, Ryker Milton, 19, went swimming around 4 p.m., but he never managed to return to the beach. Rescued by rescuers, he was hospitalized in critical condition. But he didn’t survive.
The area is known for its dangerous rip currents, or rip currents, which push swimmers out to sea when they try to exit the water, sometimes to the point of exhaustion.
For the five victims, each time, underlines the American press, the red flag indicating danger and a ban on swimming was raised. Signs also indicate how to escape when in a rip current and local authorities have increased calls for caution. But all that wasn’t enough.
