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Forget everything you've learned about saving yourself in a rip current. In this IE Flashback story, Steven Fabian talked with Janet Carbin, who knows what she's talking about. She's been the chief lifeguard in Spring Lake, New Jersey, for 14 years. Many people have died trying to get out of rip currents or while trying to save others. The old advice was to swim perpendicular to shore until you got out of the rip. It’s known now that people should float, not fight, the current.