When will Mumbaikars learn to stop playing with their lives? While the monsoon is often associated with romance, there is also a darker side to it, with a slew of drowning deaths taking place year after year. Carried away by their enthusiasm and a sense of adventure, people merrily cavort in the choppy sea, never imagining that the waves will sweep them away just as easily.

Our history and records show us so many fatalities because people have misjudged currents or because they are too busy with revelries to even care. Something similar had happened on Thursday, when a Belgian tourist Bram Ronsse saw two teens drowning off Girgaum beach. Although he was not a good swimmer, he jumped into the water anyway and managed to save one of the boys. The two drowning boys were a part of a group of 12 who decided to spend time on the beach. While their friends were safe in shallow waters, both these boys entered the deep waters and were dragged in by the current. Just a few days earlier, the bodies of three men were found in Tansa lake. They had drowned while celebrating Gatari there.