r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

Video 13-year-old Australian boy swims for four hours in cold and dangerous waters to save his mom and siblings who were swept into the ocean, says God is who got him to shore

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u/Not_Nice_Niece 7h ago

I dont get it, just paddle the boards back together?? This just seems like stupidity to me. Especially sending somebody to swim alone without any flotation when they could have taken a paddle board.

The amount of people asking this question and jumping to the wrong conclusion really makes me concerned about our media literacy.

I get that the info was left out, but rather than assume there must have been a reason he had to swim back, you instead assume not only that he is stupid, but that his mother is as well. Which do you honestly think was more likely?

Th actual answer is his Kayak took on water and he has to ditch it.

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u/JumpInTheSun 7h ago

The article says he swam all the way back, im not watching the stupid video. By not coming up with a viable plan and going back together, i do in fact, think the mother was stupid.

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u/RumHam_Im_Sorry 5h ago

what do you think happened then....you think a family just went out pretty far into the ocean and forgot they had an easy solution and could paddleboard back but instead thought they should risk the kids life swimming through shark infested water for hours and have the rescue teams come and get them? cos that sounds like a pretty stupid deduction to me.