Teenager ‘lucky’ to be alive after friends bury him in sand on UK beach
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/west-wittering-beach-sussex-teenager-buried-sand-b2787518.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
Teenager ‘lucky’ to be alive after friends bury him in sand on UK beach
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/west-wittering-beach-sussex-teenager-buried-sand-b2787518.html
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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Buried up to his neck in a 7 foot hole – this guy must be massive.
“Sand is unstable and can suddenly collapse on top of you if you’re digging a hole, tunnel or piling it up beside you. It can cause crushing or suffocation.”
Anyone who would bury you in the sand is not your real friend
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Anyone else impressed that he managed to get 7 feet down? I’d need a digger for that.
Friends?
What the heck would those who weren’t fond of him do ?
As a kid i used to dig big holes in the sand thinking i could reach Australia
A teenager in Italy died from this recently. He and his brother dug a massive hole, brother left, whole thing collapsed and kid suffocated to death. His father was the one who dug him up.
All I remember from my civil engineering class was
Anything over 1.5m is a crush risk and wet sand is unstable at angles greater than 45 deg.
Saying that I love digging holes
Kids these days haven’t seen 999 with Micheal Burke and it shows
This happened where I live….wondered why the chopper was out!
What’s the DIN 4124 (How to secure holes) equivalent in the UK?
I liked the warning not to dig a hole too big in case you fall in and hurt yourself. Thank god they warned us
pretty sure there was an episode of Grey’s Anatomy like this.
Please remember to also fill in the holes at the beach before you leave. It’s a tripping hazard and won’t be clearly visible in shallow water