If one thought that this season's drowning tragedies were restricted to a certain demographic — children entering deceptively placid waters for a lark, or lovestruck couples looking for romance on tetrapods and rocks and getting into trouble, as the monsoon currents swept them away — you need to do a rethink. On Sunday, three men and a teenager were saved from drowning at Aksa beach. A tragedy was narrowly averted as lifeguards rescued them.

Reports state that the four were at the beach on a picnic. After swimming, while they were playing 'catch' with a ball in the water, one of them went in a little further to fetch the ball and that is when the trouble started. As he started to go under, his friends tried to rescue him, but they, too, panicked and were in peril pulling each other underwater. Soon, lifeguards were alerted and they saved them.