{"id":106066,"date":"2024-06-21T18:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/couple-drowns-in-rip-current-while-on-vacation-with-their-kids-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T18:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T18:00:22","slug":"couple-drowns-in-rip-current-while-on-vacation-with-their-kids-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/couple-drowns-in-rip-current-while-on-vacation-with-their-kids-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple drowns in rip current while on vacation with their kids in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-21\/rip-current-death-ht-jef-240621_1718972070451_hpMain.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Rescue crews work the scene where a couple drowned in a rip current while vacationing, June 20, 2024, in Hutchinson Island, Florida. &#8212; Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s Office via Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(HUTCHINSON ISLAND, Fla.) &#8212; A Pennsylvania couple drowned in a rip current while on vacation in Florida with their six children, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The parents, 51-year-old Brian Warter and 48-year-old Erica Wishard, were swimming on Hutchinson Island Thursday afternoon when the couple and two of their teenage children were swept out to sea by a rip current, the Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The teens were able to escape and they tried to rescue their parents, &#8220;but it became too dangerous and they were forced to swim ashore,&#8221; according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Responders found Warter and Wishard and gave them CPR on shore, the sheriff&#8217;s office said. But the couple was declared dead at a hospital, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office said its crisis intervention team deputy is helping the children as they wait for other family members to come meet them in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Martin County Fire Rescue said it will evaluate conditions Friday morning before deciding if the ocean will be open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>A rip current, which flows out toward the ocean, can quickly pull a swimmer away from the shore. Rip currents usually reach a speed of 1 to 2 feet per second, but some can clock in at 8 feet per second, which is faster than an Olympic swimmer, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/escape-life-threatening-rip-currents\/story?id=100769790\">Click here for what to know about escaping a rip current.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>ABC News&#8217; Jessica Gorman contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rescue crews work the scene where a couple drowned in a rip current while vacationing, June 20, 2024, in Hutchinson Island, Florida. &#8212; Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s Office via Facebook (HUTCHINSON ISLAND, Fla.) &#8212; A Pennsylvania couple drowned in a rip current while on vacation in Florida with their six children,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/couple-drowns-in-rip-current-while-on-vacation-with-their-kids-in-florida\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}