JohnnyJohnD1 wrote:I thought you couldn't sink more than to you waist in a bog though?
so there are quite a few things about bog that can nullify that, the first thing being that because there is water on top, even though the bog was mostly peat, him moving his legs probably thinned out thebog around him by shoving water underneath. never step into a bog that has water on top basically
two is the fact it despite watery peat already being something that can shove him down to his titties, he unluckily hit a clay bog underneath that. I can't prove it but i say that due to the staining power it had and him decribing it as "just mud".
see clay is kinda like the real quicksand that is more like water in buoyancy, in other words he could of been in danger because of that just because any quicksand drownings that do happen are because people only float on the mud layer whenever water rolls over (why beach quicksands are always stupid to try) so basically even though its probably not correct science, id assume its like a reverse density column
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he basically gambled with life that the bog wasn't gonna be a 1 in million 3 layer dip that actually could of completely sank him