He was rescued after being trapped for more than 12 hours. Quicksand is not normally a problem at Zion National Park, but an unusually wet winter contributed to weather conditions that created the quicksand, Baltrus said. Ryan Osmuns leg got stuck in quicksand while he was hiking in Zion National Park in Utah. “If it wasn’t for them and Jessika, I’d be dead for sure,” Osmun said. A 20-year-old Illinois man died over the weekend after authorities said he became stuck waist-deep in dangerous Alaska mud flats Sunday evening as the tide came in. He was taken to a hospital and was later released, saying he felt very lucky that all he suffered was a swollen leg. Osmun stayed in a sleeping bag on top of a mat next to a fire until Sunday afternoon, when the helicopter made it to the site. He was suffering from hypothermia and rescue workers needed to airlift him out on a helicopter but it was snowing so they all had to spend the night at the site. Its impossible to overstate how pervasive the quicksand meme was.Before the Apollo 11 landing, there was widespread fear that the moons dust might act like 'quicksand.' David Bowie wrote a song called 'Quicksand' about Hitler. Rescue workers found her suffering from hypothermia, park officials said in a statement.Īfter rescue workers found Osmun, it took them two hours to get his leg free from the quicksand. McNeill said she felt like she was going to faint when she finally spoke with dispatchers. She was stuck for 14 hours until rescuers found her and pulled her out. It took her three hours to reach a location with cellphone service so she could call 911. Last week, a 78-year-old woman was hiking alone in Courthouse Wash and got one leg caught up to her knee in quicksand. “I kept telling myself: ‘He would do it for me,’” McNeill said. 'I sank first and then he came and got me, and then he sank,' McNeill told the 'Today' show. About four hours into the hike, the couple got stuck in quicksand. She left him with warm clothes and decided the fastest way to get help would be to swim down the river, which was waist-deep with frigid waters, rather than taking a trail. Osmun, of Mesa, Arizona, and McNeill went hiking in the Left Fork of North Creek, also known as the Subway, on Saturday. With no cellphone service in the remote area, they decided McNeill would have to go for help. Even in the deepest quicksand, you won’t sink far past your midsection. She tried to pry his leg out with a stick, but realized that effort would not work. 1) Calm Down Forget what you’ve seen in movies - you’re not going to be sucked into a bottomless pit. SPRINGDALE, Utah - A man hiking in Zion National Park got stuck in quicksand and stayed trapped until late that night when. The trouble for Osmun and McNeill began about four hours into the couple’s hike on a popular route called “The Subway” in the southern Utah park. Dramatic video shows a man being rescued from quicksand in a snowstorm. “When water cannot escape, it creates a liquefied soil that cannot support weight and creates suction,” Baltrus said.
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