I had been pulled out to sea by an undercurrent when I was 14. I was holding on to a raft with a young boy whom I was watching at the time. I was a good swimmer, but couldn't budge against the current. We were rescued by three swimmers and got to a jetty. Completely exhausted and bloodied by the jetty. Since that time the ocean freaked me out. How I overcame it, I joined the US Coast Guard Auxiliary and work on the water now.