Man stuck waist-deep in Alaska mud flats drowns as tide comes in: 'Mother Nature has no mercy'
At least three other people have gotten stuck and drowned there over the years.
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At least three other people have gotten stuck and drowned there over the years.
At least three other people have gotten stuck and drowned there over the years.
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 came in before frantic rescuers could extract him, authorities said.
The 20-year-old man’s body was recovered Monday, and the accident was the latest tragedy at Turnagain Arm, a 48-mile-long glacier-carved estuary that travels southeast from Anchorage, Alaska.
ANCHORAGE — 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