Derrick Moore, a 47-year-old elementary school teacher and father of four from the Loganville/metro Atlanta area in Georgia, drowned on Friday evening, August 7, 2026, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, after rescuing a young girl from a rip current.
He was on a trip (reports describe it as a family vacation) when he saw the girl in distress in the ocean after lifeguards had gone off duty for the day (typically around 6 p.m.).
Witnesses and authorities say strong rip currents were present. Moore entered the water near 4th Avenue South (some reports mention the area of 10th Avenue South) around 7:30–7:53 p.m., successfully pulled the child to safety near shore, then collapsed and was swept back out by the current.
Myrtle Beach Police, Fire Department, and the U.S. Coast Guard conducted a search overnight. His body washed ashore the next day (Saturday, August 8) near 11th Avenue South—roughly a mile or several blocks from the entry point—and was recovered.
The sad reality in today's culture is all the people that were standing within 50 feet of the ocean, were just filming instead of trying to help him.
He was trying to help a young girl and those people standing around filming, allowed him to drown in the undercurrents, his blood may be on their hands. Some people need to put down their phones and get involved in saving lives.
Just my two cents 💔
Lisa Murkowski votes no on every Trump nominee or bill and voted yes on every Joe Biden nominee and bills. She should just switch parties and get it over with.
Lisa Murkowski voted to confirm Merrick Garland and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Susan Collins voted to confirm Merrick Garland and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Both of them just voted against the confirmation of Todd Blanche.
So sick of so called “Republicans” obstructing Trump while they were more than happy to wave Biden’s appointees through.
So useless.
🚨 WOW! Marine Joey Jones just dropped this line on the Senate GOP
"We need to be talking about Democrats. THEY won't vote for voter ID and citizenship"
JONES: "I EXPECT Democrats to let me down. I EXPECT Democrats to let me down especially when I didn't vote for them. But with these Republicans, especially from states like North Carolina or wherever, they really should have to answer for why they won't vote for the most popular legislation President Trump has backed!"
🚨UNELECTED STAFFER TERRY CARMACK CAUGHT RUNNING MITCH MCCONNELL’S OFFICE — BLOCKED THE SAVE ACT
“Rep. Tim Burchett confirmed in February that McConnell’s staffer was the one blocking the SAVE Act, the bill requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.”
STAFFERS RUNNING THE SHOW WHILE SENATORS DECLINE 🔥🇺🇸
Michigan GOP gubernatorial nominee Rep. John James told NEWSMAX he aims to govern for all Michiganders, declaring: “Socialism and antisemitism has no home here. Extremism has no home here.” https://t.co/7ShHsGPkKp
Personally I would never use that term to describe anyone but am willing,eager to accommodate Walz and use the term he chose to describe himself-Knucklehead!
This is one of the most important things Democrat Senator John Fetterman has ever said
He says Bernie Sanders has become dangerous to America
“Bernie Sanders is helping install volatile and dangerous kinds of candidates, and now put Democratic seats at risk — I'm tired of his lectures — and now he claims that he's not a member of the Democratic Party. Why can't the DSA people just run and as their own party”
He’s actually right about this, the Democratic Socialists of America are extremely dangerous, this is their platform
1. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress
2. Abolish the Senate
3. Fully abolish the police and prison system
4. Abolish ICE, legalize migration, and grant amnesty for all immigrants regardless of status
5. Establish public ownership of the largest corporations and essential industries
6. Defund the Department of War, end all foreign wars, and close overseas military bases
7. End all military and economic aid to Israel; recognize a free Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital; prosecute U.S. and Israeli leaders for genocide in Gaza
8. Extend full voting rights to all permanent U.S. residents (including noncitizens) and restore voting rights for incarcerated people
9. Enact reparations
Today I am beginning a project which will take years to complete but I want to put a face to 9/11 by posting photographs if they are available of everyone killed that day. If you vote for the ideology that caused all this it's like you're killing them yourself! This was 49 year old Marie Abad who was killed in the South Tower.
Mamdani just confirmed it…he and Kathy Hochul are in "constant communication" and he "appreciates her partnership."
Two allies, comrades with one agenda, and New Yorkers stuck with the bill.
When I am Governor, that partnership ends.
We can’t let Socialists and Communists destroy this country.
Michigan’s the last hope, and I’m running to save our state. 🇺🇸
Join me: https://t.co/vgwmjD4TGI
The American liberal white woman is the most vicious, vile, violent, hateful creature on the planet. You won't find a more committed communist anywhere in the world - DMN
Florida mother Jennifer Cruz punched a Highway Patrol trooper right in the face because she thought he was ICE.
She’s now looking at up to 20 years — and she walked straight into it.
You don’t get to slug a cop over your own panic about immigration enforcement.
Officers doing their jobs shouldn’t eat a fist from someone who can’t tell agencies apart.
Real consequences are the only language left.
#Florida #ICE #LawAndOrder #BorderSecurity
Immediately discharge this Muslim who says she will refuse orders that target Muslims?
a. Yes, of course
b. No - I am a moron or a traitor.
c. Prosecute her also...