Think before you sink

[lonesinker]

Maria another thought,if you had to push your face in to get the stick out, can you imagine where you hit an air pocket and somehow flipped over slowly and your head under with your waders up in the air sticking out of the pit,like in a hand stand position just a thought if someone walked by and noticed only waders showing

[bogbud]

Maria another thought,if you had to push your face in to get the stick out, can you imagine where you hit an air pocket and somehow flipped over slowly and your head under with your waders up in the air sticking out of the pit,like in a hand stand position just a thought if someone walked by and noticed only waders showing

Well, that's not how it's supposed to work
But when you are REALLY struggling to get out, sometimes it has to get worse before it gets better. Driving oneself deeper in to later get into a more safe position is quite common for experienced sinkers

Also a great photo, Maria! But you seem to have lost your head
Your waders are at a real risk of getting swamped at this place. Although sometimes this can be very enjoyable, you should consider wearing some tight rainjacket or smock over your waders. You can use a belt (or ducttape) to make it more mudproof.

[DJlurker]

Sounds kinda scary to me...

[gamwam]

Maria another thought,if you had to push your face in to get the stick out, can you imagine where you hit an air pocket and somehow flipped over slowly and your head under with your waders up in the air sticking out of the pit,like in a hand stand position just a thought if someone walked by and noticed only waders showing

ive dont that using a breathing tube,. its great fun

[lonesinker]

lol I am happy people can see the humor in this too a few other scenarios ,your trying to poll vault across the pit with a super long stick and somehow the stick was swallowed 15 ft in oh no lol..If I happened to hike by and saw wader boots upside down possibly someone was taking diving lessons with boots on lol who knows.. silly I know

[Johnjoe777]

Sounds like an exciting adventure you had there! Is there a video of this sink?

[cbqdbq]

if i absolutly knew i could never get out and never be found, i would just work myself under and surender to it and discover all the senseations of the quicksand taking you. better to get out to sink another day.

[Sinkman61]

This was a great story. I don’t d wear waders where I go sinking. The clay in the quicksand is supercharged with salt making it unbelievably sticky. It’s like glue. Getting out of the QS usually means bringing up at least 100 pounds or more of viscous mud with you. The soles on hip boots and waders are simply too large to put in this stuff. Once they sink down, you’ll never see them again. The suction will literally lock them in place. Then the only way out will be to wiggle your way back out of your waders and leaving them behind. They’re just too damn expensive to be doing that. It once took me 2 hours to escape because I had sank down in this same area with a new pair of work boots on. They were simply stuck tightly in place and refused to budge.The problem was, I had sunk down vertically until my face was even with the surface of the quicksand surrounding me. And it was slowly closing in to cover me up completely. I absolutely love sinking that deep...or even deeper. But not getting out simply wasn’t an option. I had no time to waste, as the high tide would’ve been coming in in a few hours at which point I would’ve simply drowned. Anyhow, it took nearly an hour just to get my feet to the point that I could start moving them again. It took another hour to get myself back on the surface. Since these were lace up boots, wiggling my feet out of them simply couldn’t have ever been an option. My feet simply weren’t going to be coming out of these boots. Thinking before you sink really is important. During my adventure that I had discussed here, I knew ahead of time that I had at least 3 full hours before the tide was going to come back in. So I had planned my escape accordingly. Had I not known about the tide times, I could’ve gone into the mud 2 hours later. That would’ve led to my demise.

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