It should be against the law for any child to play in the ocean without a secure boogy board or life jacket. A couple of years ago on vacation in Myrtle Beach we witnessed a man drown trying to save his son. The son was swept out into the ocean on his boogy board. The child was eventually able to swim sideways out of the current and survived. That same evening another father drowned trying to save his child that survived only because he was able to swim out of the current on his boogy board. We were told the next the day a lady had drowned. It really made me afraid of the currents in the ocean. My children were 9yrs old and 6yrs old at the time. I never had so much anxiety for their safety.

ABC News is carrying the story today of Marine Staff Sgt. Michael Wert who drowned while saving two boys who were being carried away by a current in the Atlantic ocean.
David Greeson of Mebane, North Carolina was one of those boys and talks about what …