Then there was the time I almost drowned. Riptides are no jokes. That’s the first thing to take away from this. This was during a trip to Costa Rica I took during a college excursion. We were on a beach called Manuel Antonia beach, which was gorgeous, long and sandy. I had never seen anything like it. It was totally unlike the beaches in the Northeastern U.S. that I grew … [Read more...] about Lifeguards: You Notice Them When They Aren't There – Sponsored Video