man drowning

the atlantic — could be to blame for a drowning death off of assateague island this afternoon. few details about the victim have been released — but 47 abc’s ashonti ford spoke with witnesses on the scene — who paint a very clear picture of what happened today. an affirmation — that the waters of the atlantic can be deadly at this time of year. 15:28:26 we were out there surfing and we saw this like white blob and my buddy said hey it looks like a body :35 garrett driscoll is a local surfer. he and 7 of his friends were taking advantage of the big waves tuesday afternoon — near assateague island national seashore. and what they saw on the water — was in fact the body of a forty-five year-old man. 15:28:36 i thought it was just a dolphin so we said let’s just take one more wave and about 10 minutes later we saw the beach patrol and go carts come over here and pull a guy out of the water and start doing cpr on um :50 beach patrol and assateague lifeguards were on the scene within minutes. an employee of the national seashore tells 47 abc — the man and his 16 year-old son were out swimming — and it’s unclear whether the current carried them away — but they were outside of the designated lifeguard zones. they two were separated in the water. the father’s body washed up on a sandbar. it was just around 1 p-m when rescue teams pulled them back onto the beach. the father was unconscious. the son responsive — but exhausted. it was at atlantic general hospital where the father was pronounced dead within the hour. 47 abc spoke with one of the lifeguards that was on duty — and he says the combination of hurricane gaston ga-stawn milling in the atlantic — and tropical depression eight moving just south of us — made for some aggressive waves and dangerous rip currents. 02:05 anytime someone drowns it’s a very preventable accident 08 02:27and when people swim outside of the protective area – they’re really swimming at their own risk 02:31 and this time of year it’s actually riskier then it is at any other time of the year 02:37 we have tropical activity in the atlantic and even though it’s hundreds and hundreds of miles awayit pushes water in front of it and that brings more water into the beach 02:49 rip currents are the third leading cause of weather related deaths — according to the national weather service. ashonti ford 47 abc life guards say they fly a red flag when rip currents are nearing a danger zone — and 2 red flags if people are not permitted in the water. but in the instance that you are caught in one of these currents – they recommend that you swim parallel to the shore to escape. and an easy way to remember this — members of beach patrol say to use the acronym “rip.” r – stands for ‘relax.’ i -for calling out “i need help.” and p – for parallel — as in ‘swim parallel to shore.” well the atlantic isn’t the only body of water being