re: Man stuck in Alaska mud flats drowns as tide comes in.

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RogerTheShrubber

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Glad to see your post. I was holding my breath for a bit.

Nobody knows where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours.

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I wonder what the best way to get out of that is?

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A hose, lots of muscle and a slowly rising tide.

That shite happens a few times a year up there at least every other year it’s always non locals there are some seriously sad video. I think a pj has died trying to rescue someone and the bird couldn’t jerk him out or maybe he got stuck and bird had to pull him out and abandon the guys stranded.

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Tried to lift them out with a helicopter. Unfortunately it ripped him in half. Not the best way to go.

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Honestly I’d prefer that over drowning

Seems you could make a type of mud shoe similar to snowshoes for those that want to walk out there

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Seems you could make a type of mud shoe similar to snowshoes for those that want to walk out there

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It happens so often its ridiculous. Cook Inlet and Turnagain arm are two places I would never walk on period.

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The body of a man was swept up in an incoming tide on the Cook Inlet mud flats Sunday was recovered early Monday morning, the Alaska State Troopers said.
His family identified him as Capt. Joseph Hugh Eros, 42, of Anchorage, a Harvard graduate and JAG attorney for the U.S. Army who was due to deploy to a new post in South Korea in July.
Eros and a friend were returning to Kincaid Park from a walk to Fire Island when the tide -- one of the more extreme of the year -- swiftly came in Sunday afternoon, according to the Anchorage Fire Department. The friend, who had not been identified early Monday evening, made it back to shore but Eros was seen going under the water, which is about 40 degrees this time of year, said fire department battalion chief Tim Garbe.

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I went duck hunting on an island in the Big Bend area of the Florida gulf coast this past January. Got out there via a boat before dawn and put out decoys before I put the bow to solid ground. The tide receded a lot by 9:00am and my closest decoys were laying over on the silt. I decided to go out and move them out more to be in water. I stepped off the solid bank into what I thought was a soft bottom that would give a few inches. No different than when I walk in most areas like that in my waders. My first step had me up to my knees just off the bank. I couldn’t move my legs and was stuck. Luckily, I was right against the bank and was able to lean back on my butt and and slip out of the waders and shimmy up the bank backwards. Hell, it was all I could do to pull the waders out without anything in them. I am never walking on that crap again without a foot or two of water.

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“I was holding onto her as she drowned. I’m hanging onto her and I had to let go. I had no feeling in my arms, in my hands. I just had to let go,” he said. “She was alive, conscious. There was nothing we could do.”

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Well frick