As a certified Lifeguard, they trained us on riptides too, good job Coach Lu!!!

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Video footage captures a hero surfer saving a 6-year-old girl caught in a riptide
Chris Greene recently found himself living every parent’s nightmare. While visiting Oceanside Harbor Beach in California, his 6-year-old daughter was playing in shallow water when she was suddenly swept out to sea by a powerful riptide.

Greene had warned her just minutes earlier about the current, telling her not to get too close to the nearby jetty. Riptides are often more powerful, persistent, and unpredictable near structures like piers and jetties. Greene knew that, yet he still found himself in a life-or-death situation. As soon as Greene’s daughter, Coco, was pulled out by the current, he jumped in after her. But by the time he reached her, he was completely exhausted from fighting the current himself, according to FOX 5 San Diego.

Harrowing video footage captured by a bystander on a nearby jetty shows Coco screaming and her father struggling to keep them both afloat.

That’s when a stranger, surfer Lucas Taub, sprang into action. Coaching a competition on the jetty, the surf instructor didn’t hesitate to jump in after the pair. The entire rescue was caught on camera.

“You’re our hero”
Taub is being hailed as a hero. People who know him say they aren’t surprised in the least that he stepped in when needed.

“Coach Lu….we love you!!! You’re our hero…always have been, always will be!! . Thank you for being such an amazing human!” one commenter wrote on Instagram.

“Lucas is an all around good human. He’s my son’s coach at Westcliff. This does not surprise me that he did this,” added another.

I still have my certification cards: