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re: Man stuck in Alaska mud flats drowns as tide comes in.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:34 am to Draque Fiero
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:34 am to Draque Fiero
Never know where quicksand is. I was plant collecting between homer and haynesville and in a real sandy area. Small pond. Stepped next to the water line and sunk up to my knees in an instant. Lucky I fell backwards and pulled myself out sans boots
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Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:36 am to jeffsdad
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Stepped next to the water line and sunk up to my knees in an instant. Lucky I fell backwards and pulled myself out sans boots
there's a lot of quicksand in N. La
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:40 am to 1BIGTigerFan
Makes me think of people who drown in grain silos. What a terrible way to go.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:45 am to 1BIGTigerFan
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Turnagain Arm
Named by Captain WIlliam Bligh, of HMS Bounty fame. As part of Captain Cook's expedition to find a Northwest Passage, he named it in frustration after it proved to be yet another dead end.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:47 am to TigerFanatic99
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Makes me think of people who drown in grain silos. What a terrible way to go.
Yep. Any movement causes you to sink even further until you suffocate. Folks need to wear a harness and have a partner nearby if they ever need to go into a silo.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:47 am to 777Tiger
Seems like s snorkel device with about a 100' hose and a float up top with an air entrance could be a workable thing?
Although the panic of being stuck underwater and breathing through a snorkel for a few hours might really suck.
Although the panic of being stuck underwater and breathing through a snorkel for a few hours might really suck.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:48 am to Meauxjeaux
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Although the panic of being stuck underwater and breathing through a snorkel for a few hours might really suck.
we're talking about water that was ice just a few hours ago, hypothermia baw
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:48 am to Meauxjeaux
Or a dive helmet with a small dingy and air pump system?
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:49 am to 777Tiger
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we're talking about water that was ice just a few hours ago, hypothermia baw
True, didn't think it all the way through.
Probably better to die than live through that and lose all your limbs to frostbite.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:50 am to TigerFanatic99
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Makes me think of people who drown in grain silos. What a terrible way to go.
One of my cousins was married to a guy who suffocated inside a pressure vessel he was inspecting. They forgot to purge the argon gas before he went in. It took about ten seconds for him to lose conciousness. His harness got hung up on something and they couldn't pull him out. The two guys who went in and tried to rescue him nearly died as well.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:51 am to Meauxjeaux
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Probably better to die than live through that and lose all your limbs to frostbite.
it would absolutely be a horrible way to go
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:53 am to 777Tiger
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we're talking about water that was ice just a few hours ago, hypothermia baw
Yeah that water is about 38 degrees year round.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:56 am to RichardParker
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Were they stayin across the bay
they call it sunshine point... not sure on the real name, but my dad knows them from high school. But there are three houses that were homestead land that buts up to the national forest.
i havent been there since the late '80s but my dads oldest brother has lived in kenai/nikiski area since late '60s, his wife's family were also homesteaders
Posted on 5/23/23 at 10:56 am to 777Tiger
There was an article that mentioned some rigs that are basically a heated wet suit and oxygen supply. Even then, the person stuck has to calm down enough to breathe through the apparatus properly and there's a point of water depth where you can't get that rig on the person.
Confined spaces are no joke too. So many stories of multiple fatalities because no one realizes why the first, second, or third person didn't come back up.
Confined spaces are no joke too. So many stories of multiple fatalities because no one realizes why the first, second, or third person didn't come back up.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 11:00 am to RogerTheShrubber
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when we were up there my wife wanted to go the the restaurant that had the replica of the bus from the movie Into the Wild, I don't know if I'd ever heard the story before that, found out all about it while we were there, of course we had to watch the movie when we got home, everyone seems to consider that dude a folk hero of some sort, I think he was a dumbass, among other things
Christopher McCandless. He's a folk hero to anyone outside of Alaska. Alaskans share your view. He came out there wholly unprepared and didn't listen to anybody's warnings. There has to be hundreds of locales in the contiguous US where he could have gone off grid, but he chose to go outside of that to the most inhospitable wilderness the US has to offer.
Posted on 5/23/23 at 11:12 am to DakIsNoLB
Christopher McCandless. He's a folk hero to anyone outside of Alaska. Alaskans share your view. He came out there wholly unprepared and didn't listen to anybody's warnings. There has to be hundreds of locales in the contiguous US where he could have gone off grid, but he chose to go outside of that to the most inhospitable wilderness the US has to offer. 
Posted on 5/23/23 at 11:31 am to 1BIGTigerFan
It. will be quick. there is about 15 feet of tide there
Posted on 5/23/23 at 11:36 am to 777Tiger
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mother nature is perennially on the rag in AK, not to be fricked with
Best description of nature is:
"nature is not cruel it is indifferent. It doesn't care".
This post was edited on 5/23/23 at 11:38 am
Posted on 5/23/23 at 12:02 pm to nes2010
quote:So they'd just die of hypothermia instead from being submerged in 40 degree water for hours
Oof, could they invest in some sort of air pump so the person can breath underwater?
Posted on 5/23/23 at 12:03 pm to Jcorye1
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Surprised they don't keep oxygen tanks on hand for this type of situation.
Wouldn't even need oxygen tanks, just a really long snorkel.
ETA: Now seeing the subsequent posts about water temp. Definitely best to just stay off.
This post was edited on 5/23/23 at 12:08 pm
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