My daughter tells about people at Tybee Island wading out too far onto sandbars and don't know how fast the tide comes in.
I just have rivers where I live so they tend to undercut more. Do undercuts occur on the ocean?
Sandbar safety,
A friend of mine went under water for half a block when the edge of a sand bar unexpectedly broke off under his weight. It threw him into current and he was lucky to touch bottom so he knew which way was up. He thought he was done for.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeoGEPy3WOE
Whether on a river or the ocean sandbars can be dangerous.
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A fella sent me this. Scary!!!
My wife and I decided to take a walk out on a sandbar in the Miss. River
at Shelby Forest old river ramp one day. The sandbar went almost out to
the main channel. We had walked out and the down the river a ways when
we decided to head back.We walked straight back to the river bank from
where we were when we heard the sound of water rushing by!I slowly
approached what I heard and out of no where a gushing , fast moving
stream of water was coming out from under the sand going about 20 feet
and disapeared back under the sand. It was a very scary site to see.THERE
IS MOVING WATER UNDER THOSE SANDBARS AND THEY CAN CAVE AT
ANYTIME AND TAKE YOU WITH THEM!!I have not been back out on a
sandbar since. We walked back out away from the flow of water and back
pretty much the way we came before trying to walk up the river bank. That
rushing water was right at the rivers bank, not way out near the edge of
the sandbar!! SANDBARS ARE DANGEROUS FOR SURE!!!
My wife and I decided to take a walk out on a sandbar in the Miss. River
at Shelby Forest old river ramp one day. The sandbar went almost out to
the main channel. We had walked out and the down the river a ways when
we decided to head back.We walked straight back to the river bank from
where we were when we heard the sound of water rushing by!I slowly
approached what I heard and out of no where a gushing , fast moving
stream of water was coming out from under the sand going about 20 feet
and disapeared back under the sand. It was a very scary site to see.THERE
IS MOVING WATER UNDER THOSE SANDBARS AND THEY CAN CAVE AT
ANYTIME AND TAKE YOU WITH THEM!!I have not been back out on a
sandbar since. We walked back out away from the flow of water and back
pretty much the way we came before trying to walk up the river bank. That
rushing water was right at the rivers bank, not way out near the edge of
the sandbar!! SANDBARS ARE DANGEROUS FOR SURE!!!
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Any sandbar experiences to relate to me. I might write a book. (:)
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Another fella wrote he thought they were moving all the time to some degree.
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I've been really f'ed-up on a sandbar. Until I quit drinkin'.
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woopty wrote:I've been really f'ed-up on a sandbar. Until I quit drinkin'.
that's pretty good...