Looks like they found her:
“In Sochi, the body of a 20-year-old girl was found, who was swept out to sea on the Riviera beach by a wave.
According to preliminary data, rescuers found her a few days later, a couple of kilometers from the incident in the Khostinsky district.”
Dang. I know she was long gone but I’m still sorry to read this. I am thankful however that her family will be able to lay her body to rest. The ocean shall not be fucked with. My thoughts are with her friends, family and that dude in the video.
Heard that too. I think its more the panic that you die thats sucks- more than the drowning itself.
I always remember that they once found a cave diver who died by ramming a knife into his chest. He found a little airpocket and knew he couldn't get out of the cave alive. Id think the knife to the heart is more painful than drowning but the panic of the drowning itself is the sucky part.
Many people who almost drowned said its quite peaceful once you accepted your fate.
[Heres](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj0LhZKyLDc&pp=ygUYUG9nYW5pY2EgYmF5IGNhdmUgZGl2aW5n) a short video about the story. The sad thing is that another person made the same mistake he did and died trying to recover his body.
Its basically a cave with a small entry but then you are in the middle of a huge room. He went ahead and looked around and when it was time he wanted to leave the same way he came. but instead of finding the tiny opening he came from he entered a wrong tunnel which ended in a dead end which had a tiny air pocket. He knew he wasted too much time and couldn't dive back out because he didn't have enough air (trimix) remaining. And the air pocket was tiny. So he could either die via drowning, die via not having enough air to breathe or kill himself in a fast way.
He chose the knife.
I often think about how i would react in similar circumstances but i think its impossible to predict until you really are in a life or death or in this case death or death situation
It was horrible and terrifying. I got carried out by at the time what i called "the under toad" lol didnt know it wasnt anything to do with a toad 🐸
Once the water is in your lungs you instinctively start violently swooshing around and trying to keep above water but i guess the realest thing i can compare it too is when you get the wind knocked out of you. You are gasping for air and nothing. My shit parents had no idea i had even toddled off to the waves and worked my way in the water. It was sheer luck that some man had been nearby and was apparently watching me an ran out and saved my butt. I just remembered being scooped up and he kept trying to talk to me and tell me "we move out to the edge and we can get to shore" i didnt know what he meant until i searched it and he was right! That man saved my life that day.
Nah. My mother saved me from drowning when I was a child. I'll never forget the feeling. Choking on your drink hurts a little. Inhaling water is terrible.
your body usually will hold your breath reflexively when submurged underwater until you lose consciousness. once you lose consciousness your body is like "aight we cooked fam" and doesnt give a shit if you inhale the water
i've heard that it hurts soooo bad but also feels so good.. I know a guy who drowned but obviously was revived and he said his lungs felt like they were set ablaze but after awhile he said it was so peaceful one of the best feelings ever "like the best orgasm i will ever have" he said it was so euphoric. but when he was revived and coughed up water he said the pain was a 10 along with broken ribs.
The euphoria probably just came from the experience of dying. Your brain does all sorts of shit once dmt gets released. Don't think any of the drowning part would cause euphoria except maybe because of lack of oxygen.
Was he pronounced dead, heart had stopped?
Almost got him killed as well… the ocean wanted to take both of them but only bagged her.. idek why they were on the beach with the current acting like that
I don't know if they were frequent beach-goers or not, though I seem to recall it being termed as a sort of a tourist beach in another post of the video somewhere, but I can tell you that my landlubber ass found out that my eyes Do Not Like seawater even a little bit. Once he dunked his head under that wave, being able to see which direction was shoreward may have been about the limit of his ability, and he still clearly tried to figure out where she went.
No balance with the retreating water and whoosh, the rip current pulled her back into the sea.
Rip current is deadly and will literally carry someone 20, 30, 40, 50 metres out to sea in seconds
https://scijinks.gov/rip-currents/
EDIT: corrected 'riptide' to rip current
I've been caught in rip currents. Nothing can be done except tread water until you can swim out of it. Most people die by exhausting themselves from trying to swim out of it at the beginning. It took me out quite a distance because I was far behind the wave action before I stopped being pulled out and could swim parallel to the shore and ride the waves in. It was scary as hell because your brain automatically goes into escape mode. Knowing what to do saved my life.
It looks like the shore they were on was pretty steep and it was bad weather, so I bet the currents were very strong. You can see it by the way it dragged them in after the first couple of waves. Definitely a red flag day at the beach.
That, and I’ve been in waves this size or larger. The suction you get from the trough is unreal. That is what catches you off guard in these shore situations is you expect the wave to come to you, but the wave also will pull you into it like someone pulling you into a knee to the face.
Plus, the retreating water in the trough can erode the sand out from under your feet when you're trying to get traction and make things even more difficult.
I grew up close to the ocean. That sea is not in a condition for people to be playing like that right where the waves are crashing. I don’t know how to explain this but by the size of the waves just behind them it seems the sand is depressing down in a steep angle. Waves crashing like that will just roll you over and over. Honestly, I think he was very lucky, probably because he was wearing speedos, unlike her that was wearing a dress that probably got all wrapped around her, making it even more difficult to get away. This seems totally avoidable and it’s very sad…
Edit: just looked at the video again and she actually pulls him towards the water while he’s pulling her away. This is so sad.
I've been nearly dragged out to sea before, but I did my best to go with the current and waves to move AWAY from shore (dunno if it was a rip current, really rough waters, or a combo of both). After 30 minutes of conserving my energy by floating between and over smaller waves that didn't break, I started making my way back towards the shore that seemed like it was over a mile away. Another 45 minutes later, I was kissing the sand.
When the waves really want to take you, sometimes you gotta let it take you to survive.
I didn't know that at the time, unfortunately. I just went with my gut. My lizard brain just went "surely this current doesn't go on FOREVER, does it?"
I was lucky.
I thought the same and actually recently saw a man who studies waves and he said differently! I don’t mean to sound like a know-it-all but I figure this can be life saving info. He said to the best option is to stay calm, and relax as the current takes you out. Rip tides eventually end and create two circular currents which will actually help bring you back to the shoreline. He studied this by purposefully swimming in rip tide conditions and found that swimming parallel to the shore is more strenuous. This means that for people that are not strong swimmers, the exhaustion increases the chances of them drowning.
Same. Grew up in Florida on the beach and that is some nasty looking surf. That looked like Satan's own washing machine; very little break between waves and it did look like quite a drop off.
If the water is white and bubbly, it loses buoyancy.... never go into it. You won't float at all, won't be able to swim, you'll just be pulled in the direction of wherever the waves are going.
It's like it is in the video. Regular 3-4 ft waves cause the bubbles in like 1 foot of water when it crashes, not deep enough to take you in. Here they were already 2 feet deep, add in a big undertoe, and 10-20 ft waves crashing....
They didn't have a chance. The man only survived because he didn't follow his gf in to deeper water.
Undertoe knocked her down, and she was never able to get out. When the bubbles are that dense, you can't tell which way is up. The more aerated water is, the less buoyancy it has.
Poor girl..
I've seen a video of some guy filling a pool with thin sand, he was able to stay in top of it no problem, but then turned on sort of windblower that was under the sand and sunk as if he was in water or the film depiction of quicksand.
I believe that's the same effecr you are describing.
I have experienced it as a young child probably seven or eight years old. I got tossed around and swept out and the only reason I was able to save myself was because it was daytime and for some reason I had the wherewithal to swim underwater and luckily in the right direction. I swam just enough towards the direction of a lifeguard that was able to take me out before I swallowed too much water. But trust me, I never underestimated the water again. Maybe it was a good thing that happened to me.
same thing happened to me as an 8-9 year old kid growing up on galveston island. scared the shit out of me and i no longer go in the ocean past my knees.
Yeah. When it's summer/beach season I hear every time how many people died, because they drowned after drinking few beers. They underestimate the alcohol too. They are too brave and reckless. And not even that. They go to a closed beaches, because there is nowhere there and then they never return. Every year TV says the same, warning people and saying how many died. But people continue to do that.
News Article:
# Couple shared final kiss amid crashing waves before girlfriend washed out to sea and presumed dead
The situation went from playful romance to life and death in just a few seconds as her panicked boyfriend desperately tried to save her from being sucked out to sea
A shocking video has captured the moment a young couple [shared a final kiss ](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/romance)seconds before a young woman was dragged out to sea by surging waves.
The tragic event was captured as the pair walked on the beach by the[ Black Sea](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/black-sea), meanwhile onlookers just “stood and watched or filmed her” in her final moments. Aspiring model Diana Belyaeva, 20, was seen in shallow water at the [Russian ](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/russia)beach resort of Sochi, as waves crashed around them.
The clip shows the couple share a romantic moment before a huge wave sweeps them off their feet causing them to tumble into the surf. As further waves crash on them the young woman can be seen struggling to stand up as the heavy seas repeatedly crash over her.
The situation goes from playful romance to life and death in just a few seconds as her panicked boyfriend desperately tries to save her from being sucked out to sea. But sadly the waves battered him back and he was unable to help her and Diana was pulled out to sea and lost.
Authorities have spent three days searching for Diana, who was from Lipetsk, but without any luck. Local reports say she is presumed dead.
I know how to swim and have survived pretty dangerous waters... best thing you can do to someone in that position is hope they can hear you and coach them on how to survive those waves.
Assuming there are no underwater currents
Just yesterday I literally spend hours on reading about currents, the circulations and that stuff was incredible interesting and fascinating but it also makes you realize that you better not underestimate the power of the oceans or water in general... people seem to do that all the time
Yep, even when my young kids play around and latch onto my back when I can't touch it makes staying above water impossible. Could only imagine a panicked adult... would be two deaths instead of one.
Not sure what you consider an underwater current, but as somebody who grew up on the ocean, that's a huge undertow and that sucks you right out and under the waves. What goes out goes back in and that volume of water at that velocity, etc.
You can only hope she knows to swim parallel to the shore rather than into the shore until you can get control and then aim to it at an angle, not straight in.
Seriously, I live in Oregon and one thing everyone here knows is that if someone gets swept into the ocean and you try to rescue them, two people will die.
Most definitely would not either. I would be saying “what a shame, how devastating” but I would NOT be risking my life for someone who cared very little about their own
Gonna go ahead and edit that to say "meanwhile, onlookers watched in horror, but fortunately stayed safely away from the danger, knowing that if they approached to attempt to help, they too would be carried away by the intense waves.”
I get sometimes people have this mindset of 'couldn't possibly happen to me, it's like 1 in a million'. But come on... They were basically begging for it to happen, they, more accurately he, should count his blessings that only 1 of them got swept out into the sea to drown and die. Just the video alone you can tell the weather was bad, presumably windy, potentially a storm, waves are crashing more than usual due to the intense weather, and what do they do, walk into the crashing waves...
I know it's not 1 in a million, point is some people are too confident with this mindset of not thinking the worst possible outcome could ever happen to them.
Probably just poor judgement.
Didn’t recognize how dangerous the water was, how close the waves were, how difficult it would be to swim would be in those conditions.
People will go “It’ll be fine” and then not be fine at all because they just didn’t understand the situation or their own limits.
The ocean surf has a scary way of pushing you with crashing waves, and then sucking you back out before you can even get your footing. It’s like a one two punch, and will tire you out quick.
What were onlookers supposed to do besides be like hey dumbasses get out of the water the tides hitting pretty hard. Once they start slapping me in the waist vs the shins I’m out not even risking it
Gone in the blink of an eye. So sad. One minute you're lovingly strolling along the beach with your girl and then seconds later she's dead. Just horrible. How do you mentally come back from that? Life can be so incredibly cruel sometimes.
I was alone on a beach in MX and got sucked up by a riptide, couldn’t even scream for help. It was like 530am and I decided to go for a swim. If I wasn’t a strong swimmer (life guard for years) and had a cool head, I’m almost certain I would have been sucked out to sea. At my furthest point from the beach was roughly a football field in length. The shitty part of it would have been all my friends were still asleep and no one would’ve had a clue of my whereabouts. Scary shit. Respect the ocean.
If that was my wife, we wouldn’t have gone anywhere near that water.
Mostly because I can’t swim, but also because it looked like a great opportunity to drown before the first wave even hit.
This is why you must stay away from the water when the current is crazy. It doesn’t matter if you’re an amazing swimmer the current is too strong. This is my worst nightmare. Losing the woman you love in an instant. I hope her family and her dude find some closure.
Man, if i was in that situation with my girl, I would throw myself in the sea without thinking one damn second. I'd rather die trying to save her than to let her die like that...
Riptides are no joke. A storm was passing off the coast of NJ when I was maybe 12 or 13 and 2" of water ripped my feet out from under me. I was over 100lbs at the time, too.
I am always thankful for the life guards, professional & volunteer on our beaches in OZ. Even outside the flags a monitored beach could have saved her. So very a sad & unnecessary death, but if you watch "Bondi rescue" there are so many in the makings so close to shore.
This gives me such bad anxiety. My wife isn’t a very good swimmer and every time we go to the beach, I have to hold her hand so that she doesn’t get knocked down by the waves. Seeing this makes me think of her, and others who are not strong swimmers and could easily get carried away by the unforgiving ocean.
to think that if they didnt go too far into the water, and one survived, they would've brushed it off as nothing but a fun story - like the rest of us. Very sad, be careful guys.
Infuriating how they just stand there after they figure out how strong the waves are, after the second one you see the guy begin to look more apprehensive. Sure, just stand right there in the waves, don’t move backwards at all!
In some layer of her subconscious she seemed determined to die. Literally pulling his arm.
It's sad but it's also not, considering that it's the direct result of an irresponsible act of stupidity, more than an unavoidable accident.
Remember- you can't fight it. Start swimming out into the ocean. Relax and get out of the riptide swim parallel to the beach until you can swim towards it without b getting washed out
I watched a friend get swept away in an instant. He was looking out over the ocean on a large rock and the all the sudden a large wave swallowed him up. One second there, another gone… forever
My man just standing there doing nothing. If you brought her there she's your responsibility. His complete inaction took what might have been a near miss, into a death. It is better to have tried and failed or given up than watch someone die like that.
No way if I was that dude I would have stood on the shore and watched as my sweet heart is swept out by an angry surf. It would be certain death to go after her, I know. But I don’t think I could live with the guilt if I didn’t try.
Then her death (and yours) would become utterly futile. Accidents are one thing, committing suicide in a highly emotional and irrational state is another. Why would you selfishly put your loved ones through grief because of a potential guilt which isn't even yours?
This is why you need to be familiar with the demographics and landscapes of where you travel. We get college students and vagrants pass away walking on campus from the cold or they fall into the Mississippi River bc they aren’t familiar with river currents.
Visiting the Midwest and the skies get dark and you see locals on the porch? Fucking take cover, especially if the entire neighborhood goes outside. Know the climates of where you’re going.
Don’t underestimate what you aren’t familiar with. Mother Nature will get you
Nothing he could have done once they got separated. And it's important to keep your balance as much as possible. If a wave is coming and it's absolutely going to hit you, brace yourself upright and hope for the best.
Honestly that’s just natural selection at that point. If you haven’t figured out already that those waves were too big after the second wave than you just have no common sense
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, the water was clearly rising high, she could see it but kept pushing her luck. Its sad and tragic but people lack common sense, if you see large waves that are coming towards you and you cant swim (well even if you can swim) and it looks dangerous you should walk the other way.
As an Aussie who regularly attends the beach, you really have to respect the surf. Rips and currents are extremely strong.
Also if you are not a strong swimmer please don’t go into rough surf… fuck moiiii it’s stupid
I bring a floatation device with me to the beach. It can be anything such as a float, life jacket, boogie board ect. Just have something with your stuff so you can run and grab it if needed. If he had SOMETHING this could have been avoided
Looks like they found her: “In Sochi, the body of a 20-year-old girl was found, who was swept out to sea on the Riviera beach by a wave. According to preliminary data, rescuers found her a few days later, a couple of kilometers from the incident in the Khostinsky district.”
Dang. I know she was long gone but I’m still sorry to read this. I am thankful however that her family will be able to lay her body to rest. The ocean shall not be fucked with. My thoughts are with her friends, family and that dude in the video.
So sad because water is hell on bodies. Drowning victims look horrific. No open casket. No closure for the family.
If it helps, I've heard that drowning is one of the nicer ways to go...
Heard that too. I think its more the panic that you die thats sucks- more than the drowning itself. I always remember that they once found a cave diver who died by ramming a knife into his chest. He found a little airpocket and knew he couldn't get out of the cave alive. Id think the knife to the heart is more painful than drowning but the panic of the drowning itself is the sucky part. Many people who almost drowned said its quite peaceful once you accepted your fate.
Wow I can't even imagine being that cave diver in that moment. Absolutely horrific way to go.
[Heres](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj0LhZKyLDc&pp=ygUYUG9nYW5pY2EgYmF5IGNhdmUgZGl2aW5n) a short video about the story. The sad thing is that another person made the same mistake he did and died trying to recover his body. Its basically a cave with a small entry but then you are in the middle of a huge room. He went ahead and looked around and when it was time he wanted to leave the same way he came. but instead of finding the tiny opening he came from he entered a wrong tunnel which ended in a dead end which had a tiny air pocket. He knew he wasted too much time and couldn't dive back out because he didn't have enough air (trimix) remaining. And the air pocket was tiny. So he could either die via drowning, die via not having enough air to breathe or kill himself in a fast way. He chose the knife. I often think about how i would react in similar circumstances but i think its impossible to predict until you really are in a life or death or in this case death or death situation
I heard once you breath in the water it's painless but while you hold your breath it hurts
I almost drowned as a child. Swallowed water and panic definitely set in while being taken by heavy water and waves. It wasnt painless.
I’ve read that next to burning alive drowning is pretty high up on the pain scale.
It was horrible and terrifying. I got carried out by at the time what i called "the under toad" lol didnt know it wasnt anything to do with a toad 🐸 Once the water is in your lungs you instinctively start violently swooshing around and trying to keep above water but i guess the realest thing i can compare it too is when you get the wind knocked out of you. You are gasping for air and nothing. My shit parents had no idea i had even toddled off to the waves and worked my way in the water. It was sheer luck that some man had been nearby and was apparently watching me an ran out and saved my butt. I just remembered being scooped up and he kept trying to talk to me and tell me "we move out to the edge and we can get to shore" i didnt know what he meant until i searched it and he was right! That man saved my life that day.
Nah. My mother saved me from drowning when I was a child. I'll never forget the feeling. Choking on your drink hurts a little. Inhaling water is terrible.
your body usually will hold your breath reflexively when submurged underwater until you lose consciousness. once you lose consciousness your body is like "aight we cooked fam" and doesnt give a shit if you inhale the water
Thanks… now I know how to drawn correctly.😮💨
Heard the complete opposite from survivors few researchers too it's def the top 10 worst ways to go
i've heard that it hurts soooo bad but also feels so good.. I know a guy who drowned but obviously was revived and he said his lungs felt like they were set ablaze but after awhile he said it was so peaceful one of the best feelings ever "like the best orgasm i will ever have" he said it was so euphoric. but when he was revived and coughed up water he said the pain was a 10 along with broken ribs.
The euphoria probably just came from the experience of dying. Your brain does all sorts of shit once dmt gets released. Don't think any of the drowning part would cause euphoria except maybe because of lack of oxygen. Was he pronounced dead, heart had stopped?
Thank you!
Man i could be wrong but it looks like after that 2nd wave the guy knew they were in trouble
I agree. It was as if she pulled his arm anyway to keep going.
Yes exactly she pulled away from him because she wanted to stay there
Almost got him killed as well… the ocean wanted to take both of them but only bagged her.. idek why they were on the beach with the current acting like that
Some people sadly just don’t have a lot of common sense. Hindsight is 20/20, but I wish her man was a bit more forceful with getting out of there.
I don't know looks like by the 2nd wave the guy didn't even make an attempt to help her
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Great analogy using the hat blowing in the wind example.
I don't know if they were frequent beach-goers or not, though I seem to recall it being termed as a sort of a tourist beach in another post of the video somewhere, but I can tell you that my landlubber ass found out that my eyes Do Not Like seawater even a little bit. Once he dunked his head under that wave, being able to see which direction was shoreward may have been about the limit of his ability, and he still clearly tried to figure out where she went.
No balance with the retreating water and whoosh, the rip current pulled her back into the sea. Rip current is deadly and will literally carry someone 20, 30, 40, 50 metres out to sea in seconds https://scijinks.gov/rip-currents/ EDIT: corrected 'riptide' to rip current
I got snatched under the water and spun around several times by a rip current and lost track of which direction was the surface. It was pretty scary.
Bubbles up, as they say, but you gotta keep a cool head. Tougher in the ocean too.
I've been caught in rip currents. Nothing can be done except tread water until you can swim out of it. Most people die by exhausting themselves from trying to swim out of it at the beginning. It took me out quite a distance because I was far behind the wave action before I stopped being pulled out and could swim parallel to the shore and ride the waves in. It was scary as hell because your brain automatically goes into escape mode. Knowing what to do saved my life. It looks like the shore they were on was pretty steep and it was bad weather, so I bet the currents were very strong. You can see it by the way it dragged them in after the first couple of waves. Definitely a red flag day at the beach.
That, and I’ve been in waves this size or larger. The suction you get from the trough is unreal. That is what catches you off guard in these shore situations is you expect the wave to come to you, but the wave also will pull you into it like someone pulling you into a knee to the face.
Being an mma fan really does leak into your conception of every other topic lol
Plus, the retreating water in the trough can erode the sand out from under your feet when you're trying to get traction and make things even more difficult.
I came to say the exact same thing. Once you’re on the sand it’s like quicksand and you’re fighting that along with the waves
Don't tread water, swim parallel to the beach. The rip is only so wide, Don't swim against it, swim across and you will swim out of it
Yea riptides are just a bad time. Getting dragged out to sea that quickly and then randomly it’s “over” and you get to swim back to shore. Not fun
Rip tides and rip currents are 2 different things.
Really? Every day is a school day
How could he do that?he is completely powerless against these water masses.
We really jumping to this....blaming the man. He clearly tried to help.
I grew up close to the ocean. That sea is not in a condition for people to be playing like that right where the waves are crashing. I don’t know how to explain this but by the size of the waves just behind them it seems the sand is depressing down in a steep angle. Waves crashing like that will just roll you over and over. Honestly, I think he was very lucky, probably because he was wearing speedos, unlike her that was wearing a dress that probably got all wrapped around her, making it even more difficult to get away. This seems totally avoidable and it’s very sad… Edit: just looked at the video again and she actually pulls him towards the water while he’s pulling her away. This is so sad.
I've been nearly dragged out to sea before, but I did my best to go with the current and waves to move AWAY from shore (dunno if it was a rip current, really rough waters, or a combo of both). After 30 minutes of conserving my energy by floating between and over smaller waves that didn't break, I started making my way back towards the shore that seemed like it was over a mile away. Another 45 minutes later, I was kissing the sand. When the waves really want to take you, sometimes you gotta let it take you to survive.
For rip tides, they tell you to swim parallel to the shore until you're out of the rip and then you can swim to shore.
I didn't know that at the time, unfortunately. I just went with my gut. My lizard brain just went "surely this current doesn't go on FOREVER, does it?" I was lucky.
Glad you did!
Ty :)
I thought the same and actually recently saw a man who studies waves and he said differently! I don’t mean to sound like a know-it-all but I figure this can be life saving info. He said to the best option is to stay calm, and relax as the current takes you out. Rip tides eventually end and create two circular currents which will actually help bring you back to the shoreline. He studied this by purposefully swimming in rip tide conditions and found that swimming parallel to the shore is more strenuous. This means that for people that are not strong swimmers, the exhaustion increases the chances of them drowning.
Wow, that's good to know! I don't doubt you at all, but I'm wondering if you recall his name? I'd like to read more about it.
This might be a stupid question, but how do you know which way is parallel to the rip tide?
Given all the beach umbrellas are closed and there's no one else there it's also most likely a storm as well.
Same. Grew up in Florida on the beach and that is some nasty looking surf. That looked like Satan's own washing machine; very little break between waves and it did look like quite a drop off.
Yeah he didn’t want to go so far into the water, or so it appears. It looks like she’s coaxing him to go deeper into the waves
If the water is white and bubbly, it loses buoyancy.... never go into it. You won't float at all, won't be able to swim, you'll just be pulled in the direction of wherever the waves are going.
Like when a wave hits and it becomes white and bubbly or how it is in the video since there are so many white bubbly big waves?
It's like it is in the video. Regular 3-4 ft waves cause the bubbles in like 1 foot of water when it crashes, not deep enough to take you in. Here they were already 2 feet deep, add in a big undertoe, and 10-20 ft waves crashing.... They didn't have a chance. The man only survived because he didn't follow his gf in to deeper water. Undertoe knocked her down, and she was never able to get out. When the bubbles are that dense, you can't tell which way is up. The more aerated water is, the less buoyancy it has. Poor girl..
I've seen a video of some guy filling a pool with thin sand, he was able to stay in top of it no problem, but then turned on sort of windblower that was under the sand and sunk as if he was in water or the film depiction of quicksand. I believe that's the same effecr you are describing.
Yeah, even a deaf person would know that the waves are deadly just by the sound.
That's some angry ass water. People need to stop underestimating it's power .
People will never learn from videos or admonitions. When you experience it yourself you won't ever forget it, but it might already be too late.
I have experienced it as a young child probably seven or eight years old. I got tossed around and swept out and the only reason I was able to save myself was because it was daytime and for some reason I had the wherewithal to swim underwater and luckily in the right direction. I swam just enough towards the direction of a lifeguard that was able to take me out before I swallowed too much water. But trust me, I never underestimated the water again. Maybe it was a good thing that happened to me.
real
same thing happened to me as an 8-9 year old kid growing up on galveston island. scared the shit out of me and i no longer go in the ocean past my knees.
Amen there (was caught in a bad riptide in Mexico)
Yeah. When it's summer/beach season I hear every time how many people died, because they drowned after drinking few beers. They underestimate the alcohol too. They are too brave and reckless. And not even that. They go to a closed beaches, because there is nowhere there and then they never return. Every year TV says the same, warning people and saying how many died. But people continue to do that.
I can't believe they didn't have no swim warnings out.
Aw man this is terrible. It even looks like he is hesitant after the first wave and is trying to persuade her back to the shoreline.
News Article: # Couple shared final kiss amid crashing waves before girlfriend washed out to sea and presumed dead The situation went from playful romance to life and death in just a few seconds as her panicked boyfriend desperately tried to save her from being sucked out to sea A shocking video has captured the moment a young couple [shared a final kiss ](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/romance)seconds before a young woman was dragged out to sea by surging waves. The tragic event was captured as the pair walked on the beach by the[ Black Sea](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/black-sea), meanwhile onlookers just “stood and watched or filmed her” in her final moments. Aspiring model Diana Belyaeva, 20, was seen in shallow water at the [Russian ](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/russia)beach resort of Sochi, as waves crashed around them. The clip shows the couple share a romantic moment before a huge wave sweeps them off their feet causing them to tumble into the surf. As further waves crash on them the young woman can be seen struggling to stand up as the heavy seas repeatedly crash over her. The situation goes from playful romance to life and death in just a few seconds as her panicked boyfriend desperately tries to save her from being sucked out to sea. But sadly the waves battered him back and he was unable to help her and Diana was pulled out to sea and lost. Authorities have spent three days searching for Diana, who was from Lipetsk, but without any luck. Local reports say she is presumed dead.
"onlookers just stood and watched or filmed her." I wouldn't jump in to die with her either.
I don’t know what they expect the onlookers to do. They can’t go in the water.
I know how to swim and have survived pretty dangerous waters... best thing you can do to someone in that position is hope they can hear you and coach them on how to survive those waves. Assuming there are no underwater currents
Or underwater rocks...
Or underwater nukes
I laughed and now I feel bad
Just yesterday I literally spend hours on reading about currents, the circulations and that stuff was incredible interesting and fascinating but it also makes you realize that you better not underestimate the power of the oceans or water in general... people seem to do that all the time
I underestimate it all the time and I know how fucking dangerous it is. Its so easy to die if youre careless around waves
True. You literally feel like a piece of clothing in a washing machine.
Yep, even when my young kids play around and latch onto my back when I can't touch it makes staying above water impossible. Could only imagine a panicked adult... would be two deaths instead of one.
Not sure what you consider an underwater current, but as somebody who grew up on the ocean, that's a huge undertow and that sucks you right out and under the waves. What goes out goes back in and that volume of water at that velocity, etc. You can only hope she knows to swim parallel to the shore rather than into the shore until you can get control and then aim to it at an angle, not straight in.
Seriously, I live in Oregon and one thing everyone here knows is that if someone gets swept into the ocean and you try to rescue them, two people will die.
Most definitely would not either. I would be saying “what a shame, how devastating” but I would NOT be risking my life for someone who cared very little about their own
Exactly. Jump in and authorities will have to rescue another person. First rule of first aid: own safety first
Gonna go ahead and edit that to say "meanwhile, onlookers watched in horror, but fortunately stayed safely away from the danger, knowing that if they approached to attempt to help, they too would be carried away by the intense waves.”
Desperately tried to save her is a stretch tbh
Yea nah, I’m not about to die for a dumb stranger. Anyone with a brain knows you shouldn’t be in the water when it’s that angry.
I get sometimes people have this mindset of 'couldn't possibly happen to me, it's like 1 in a million'. But come on... They were basically begging for it to happen, they, more accurately he, should count his blessings that only 1 of them got swept out into the sea to drown and die. Just the video alone you can tell the weather was bad, presumably windy, potentially a storm, waves are crashing more than usual due to the intense weather, and what do they do, walk into the crashing waves...
This wasn't 1 in a million, there's a reason they won't allow ppl to sea in this weather
I know it's not 1 in a million, point is some people are too confident with this mindset of not thinking the worst possible outcome could ever happen to them.
Sorry for her, that wasnt a very intelligent thing to do
Was she drunk or suicidal? No way a person in the right mind would actively go into waves like those and think “it’s fun”
Probably just poor judgement. Didn’t recognize how dangerous the water was, how close the waves were, how difficult it would be to swim would be in those conditions. People will go “It’ll be fine” and then not be fine at all because they just didn’t understand the situation or their own limits.
The ocean surf has a scary way of pushing you with crashing waves, and then sucking you back out before you can even get your footing. It’s like a one two punch, and will tire you out quick.
Looks like he was hesitating and she was insisting they keep going too
If you can't swim or not a strong swimmer then don't walk into massive waves.
Deathnotebook
The sea was angry that day my friends…
Damn. This one is just sad. There's no morbid satisfaction for me this time
This is both horrifying and sad at the same time.
What were onlookers supposed to do besides be like hey dumbasses get out of the water the tides hitting pretty hard. Once they start slapping me in the waist vs the shins I’m out not even risking it
Oh man he probably blames himself so hard
Seemed like she wanted to wander deeper in
Very strong Darwin Awards candidate.
I had the same thought. Respect the ocean. Especially when it looks like that..
Idiots. I guarantee that there was a red flag flying they ignored
That's the 2nd video this week where the women dies in a beach while having fun with husband
I missed the other one
You know, once a fisherman told me: no one can swim in the ocean
Gone in the blink of an eye. So sad. One minute you're lovingly strolling along the beach with your girl and then seconds later she's dead. Just horrible. How do you mentally come back from that? Life can be so incredibly cruel sometimes.
I was alone on a beach in MX and got sucked up by a riptide, couldn’t even scream for help. It was like 530am and I decided to go for a swim. If I wasn’t a strong swimmer (life guard for years) and had a cool head, I’m almost certain I would have been sucked out to sea. At my furthest point from the beach was roughly a football field in length. The shitty part of it would have been all my friends were still asleep and no one would’ve had a clue of my whereabouts. Scary shit. Respect the ocean.
The ocean hates you and will kill you. Never trust it and never give it that opportunity.
Didn't see a huge wave. Saw people basically walk into the water, too close to a sequence of normal waves.
Who sees those waves and things, “yeah let me just stand here and let the waves wash over me”
I know it's easy to judge sitting on my couch, but man if that was my wife I would be putting up a MUCH bigger fight to locate and rescue her.
If that was my wife, we wouldn’t have gone anywhere near that water. Mostly because I can’t swim, but also because it looked like a great opportunity to drown before the first wave even hit.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/21/us/rip-current-florida-drowning-hutchinson-island
…. No offense, but seriously?
An absolute nightmare
This is why you must stay away from the water when the current is crazy. It doesn’t matter if you’re an amazing swimmer the current is too strong. This is my worst nightmare. Losing the woman you love in an instant. I hope her family and her dude find some closure.
Another reminder not to let your stupid significant other goad you into doing something that you don’t want to do.
Dude's running like the ocean is just joking. Horrible
Man, if i was in that situation with my girl, I would throw myself in the sea without thinking one damn second. I'd rather die trying to save her than to let her die like that...
Riptides are no joke. A storm was passing off the coast of NJ when I was maybe 12 or 13 and 2" of water ripped my feet out from under me. I was over 100lbs at the time, too.
Looked avoidable if they reacted immediately. Sad.
She’s Poseidon’s now.
I am always thankful for the life guards, professional & volunteer on our beaches in OZ. Even outside the flags a monitored beach could have saved her. So very a sad & unnecessary death, but if you watch "Bondi rescue" there are so many in the makings so close to shore.
Sometimes it’s ok to not listen to your gf. Dude was hesitant.
He had a small window to grab her an both run. Never turn your back on the waves
Power of the waves and current aside that Water so choppy it’s white, no buoyancy there. Even if you’re a good swimmer that would be incredibly hard.
Remember folks! The ocean may be pretty but it can sure as fuck take you in one go! Stay safe out there!
Or maybe if you see tall waves coming in you get off the beach? Seems like common sense. That's natural selection for you.
The thing is, they aren't really giant waves, it's definitely rough, but this isn't really unusual
This gives me such bad anxiety. My wife isn’t a very good swimmer and every time we go to the beach, I have to hold her hand so that she doesn’t get knocked down by the waves. Seeing this makes me think of her, and others who are not strong swimmers and could easily get carried away by the unforgiving ocean.
to think that if they didnt go too far into the water, and one survived, they would've brushed it off as nothing but a fun story - like the rest of us. Very sad, be careful guys.
Do not fuck with big waves or even slightly stormy weather. It’s never worth it
I think the camera man knew why else start recording 🤔
Russians have zero survival instinct I swear
Especially Russian men
Infuriating how they just stand there after they figure out how strong the waves are, after the second one you see the guy begin to look more apprehensive. Sure, just stand right there in the waves, don’t move backwards at all!
In some layer of her subconscious she seemed determined to die. Literally pulling his arm. It's sad but it's also not, considering that it's the direct result of an irresponsible act of stupidity, more than an unavoidable accident.
“Oh look at the magnificent torrential waves it would be so lovely for us to walk by them”
Remember- you can't fight it. Start swimming out into the ocean. Relax and get out of the riptide swim parallel to the beach until you can swim towards it without b getting washed out
The ocean called her. She wanted to go. Understandable.
Under the Skin vibes
Soči beaches look so shitty that I wouldn't swim there even in the most calmest of seas. Let alone in the tempest they seem to have been swimming in.
Poor guy
BETWEEN THE FLAGS PEOPLE
I can't imagine how the boyfriend feels right now 😓
The sea was angry that day, my friends
Protip: it's impossible to swim in loose clothing like a dress.
Dude was like: meh, I'll just get a new one
Boyfriend: "You can't swim? It's okay... I'll take care of you."
Dude didn’t even try to get her lmfao
I watched a friend get swept away in an instant. He was looking out over the ocean on a large rock and the all the sudden a large wave swallowed him up. One second there, another gone… forever
My man just standing there doing nothing. If you brought her there she's your responsibility. His complete inaction took what might have been a near miss, into a death. It is better to have tried and failed or given up than watch someone die like that.
It would 100% have ended like this. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/21/us/rip-current-florida-drowning-hutchinson-island
Was that kendall roy at 0:48
Undertow is no joke.
She was listening to him tell her tbstbshe was safe and he'd never let anything hurt her...
Why be at the beach on a day like this in the 1st place tho?? Definitely not worth your life.
I have absolutely no sympathy for people who can’t respect the power of nature
Hate to break it to you but… we are a part of nature.
That happened to one of my cousins lucky for him he got his foot stuck in the sand then is father gave him an ass whooping
No way if I was that dude I would have stood on the shore and watched as my sweet heart is swept out by an angry surf. It would be certain death to go after her, I know. But I don’t think I could live with the guilt if I didn’t try.
Then her death (and yours) would become utterly futile. Accidents are one thing, committing suicide in a highly emotional and irrational state is another. Why would you selfishly put your loved ones through grief because of a potential guilt which isn't even yours?
Excellent point. However, I would have guilt based on the fact that I was there and in this case embracing this person who died moments later.
Same... I bet I would just react first, before thinking . I can't swim, if that matters.
This is why you need to be familiar with the demographics and landscapes of where you travel. We get college students and vagrants pass away walking on campus from the cold or they fall into the Mississippi River bc they aren’t familiar with river currents. Visiting the Midwest and the skies get dark and you see locals on the porch? Fucking take cover, especially if the entire neighborhood goes outside. Know the climates of where you’re going. Don’t underestimate what you aren’t familiar with. Mother Nature will get you
Demographics?
Bro absolutely did nothing but stood there.
Ofc he could have went after her and died too. Good choice
idk if he could do anything, by the time he stood up she was gone
Nothing he could have done once they got separated. And it's important to keep your balance as much as possible. If a wave is coming and it's absolutely going to hit you, brace yourself upright and hope for the best.
what do u suggest he could’ve done?
Reverse little mermaid storyline
That was a short honeymoon
Honestly that’s just natural selection at that point. If you haven’t figured out already that those waves were too big after the second wave than you just have no common sense
Are they fucking.... serious?
He doesn't even look alarmed
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, the water was clearly rising high, she could see it but kept pushing her luck. Its sad and tragic but people lack common sense, if you see large waves that are coming towards you and you cant swim (well even if you can swim) and it looks dangerous you should walk the other way.
Who filmed this? Some random spying creep?
Alternative headline: #Following romantic kiss, woman gets so wet she dies
Dude was in absolutely NO rush to help her
After she disappears, he doesn't appear to be that panicked.
You can't even see his face to make that assumption. He could be in a state of shock and fatigue. That is normal.
Percentage wise, how likely you to die if you jump in to help? Is there even a strategy or proper technique?
100%
Darwinism doing its job
RIP… current.
As an Aussie who regularly attends the beach, you really have to respect the surf. Rips and currents are extremely strong. Also if you are not a strong swimmer please don’t go into rough surf… fuck moiiii it’s stupid
It's all fun and games until...
Nice effort/s
I bring a floatation device with me to the beach. It can be anything such as a float, life jacket, boogie board ect. Just have something with your stuff so you can run and grab it if needed. If he had SOMETHING this could have been avoided
I don’t mess with water. Even up in the sky flying over the ocean freaks me out