Moo thinks ocean is forgiving

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/mother-son-rescued-drifting-sea-giant-inflatable-swan-213912704.html

Moo takes her kid too far out on a inflatable swan and the ocean winds do the rest.

As the winds are starting to carry your "Instagram friendly flotation device" out to sea just stay on it and hope for the best. None of that jump off and swim back to the shoreline nonsense while it is still nearby. That would ruin the Instagram moment, moo would have to get her hair wet and both of them may have to actually swim. Better to risk death than that!

Just wtf. This lady is iinsane. “I want people to know it’s not a beach float.” In the article she claims she tried swimming but she was “exhausted,” and she’d do all that work “for only an inch.” So much wrong with this. First of all, this could happen on any type of float, or even on surfboard, etc. This wouldn’t be specific to this float. I wonder if she will try to sue? Second of all, it was wind. She wasn’t caught in a riptide. She should have been paying attention. Unless it was a 90 mph wind, I doubt she was suddenly in the middle of the fucking ocean. She should have swam to shore when it started getting out of hand. Also, she was on a floatation device! Seriously. Get in the water, lay on your back, grab the swan so you won’t drown if you get fatigued and start kicking. Backstroke that bitch back to shore. Ask junior to help: This lady makes out like she’s in the same level of peril as Captain Phillips or people that are actually stranded miles out on a life raft.

Lock him up or put him down.
Stolen from Shiny.

Those giant "instagram-worthy" floats usually stick up from the water more than the average inflatable raft...but with all that surface area they're also super-light so they're basically giant sails in the wind. You don't need riptides or sneaker waves to fling those things out to sea...just a steady breeze. People are dumb about swimming in natural bodies of water and don't understand how wind, waves, currents, etc have to be factored in.