In 2013, Army Captain Joseph Eros died while trying to cross from Fire Island back to Anchorage.Įarlier this month, a man was rescued from the mudflats after one leg became stuck, and he sank to his waist while fishing in Turnagain Arm. Of course, if you start panicking you can risk to get in a wrong position and drown anyway. Its as dangerous as getting your foot stuck somewhere in the wild. Even more so in quicksand: you will get stuck, floating like a cork, half cemented in. His body was never found, the Anchorage newspaper reported. This is because the density is much higher than water, and you already float on water. In 1978, an unnamed Air Force sergeant attempting to cross Turnagain Arm was swept away with the leading edge of the tide. She then became stuck when trying to push it out and drowned with the incoming tide. After about 100m of the beach it’s soft mud, but he kept traveling about 200m before he got stuck. When she submerges beneath the muddy water, he jumps in to rescue her, but then becomes as stuck as she is. Josh finds Sofia and tries to pull her out but his attempt fails. In 1988, newlyweds Adeana and Jay Dickison were gold-dredging on the eastern end of the arm when her ATV got stuck in the mud, the Anchorage Daily News reported. Sofia loses Josh along the way and ends up falling into a muddy pool that turns out to be quicksand. I get so many comments about why I was laughing - you cant stand around screaming and crying with children around and what good would it do :) We try to t. There have been other deaths on the mud flats. The stuck in quicksand/slime one is particularly popular. If you havent seen it, its new to you If it exists, somebody has a fetish for it. Some people attempt to walk across Turnagain Arm or walk the 14 kilometres from Anchorage to Fire Island during low tide, sometimes prompting rescue efforts. It was hosted on the stock image site Photobucket, though probably without the intention of people finding it. He continued: Now wiggle your legs out and work them upwards. Signs are posted warning people of hazardous waters and mud flats. The actual method to survive and avoid being sucked into quicksand is probably not what you’re expecting at all, as the narrator explained and Chris demonstrated, Fall onto your back, spread all the way onto your back. When the tide comes back in, the silt gets wet from the bottom, loosens up and can create a vacuum if a person walks on it. "It looks like it's solid, but it's not." "This is a hard situation."Īt low tide, Turnagain Arm is known for its mudflats that "can suck you down," Ms Peterson said. "I have been in contact with all my members, and they're all heartbroken," Ms Peterson said. Beetle Bailey.In the strip for May 17th, 2013, when Beetle finds himself walking on some quicksand he immediately sinks below the surface. The volunteer members of the department will gather later in the week for a debriefing, she said. ANCHORAGE, Alaska A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide. "But you have to remember that it's Mother Nature, and she has no mercy for humanity."
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