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Byline: Diane Carroll
Jun. 14--Kristy Scheuer was in the Pacific Ocean when she noticed the current had been slowly pushing her farther out to sea. Rain had started to fall.
Spanish teacher Brett Carlson was on shore, yelling for her and his students to come in. They tried to obey, Scheuer said, but the current rushed against them. Suddenly, she said, she could no longer touch the ocean floor.
It was 5 p.m. Saturday. Scheuer and nine students from Labette County High School in Altamont, Kan., had spent several hours enjoying the water at Palo Seco beach near Parrita, 180 miles south of San Jose in Costa Rica. But in a matter of minutes, the weather…