A crowd gathered around a teen girl who got stuck in the sand at Mission Beach on Tuesday.
Lifeguards say the teen was 6 to 8 feet deep in the hole when it partially collapsed, making her unable to climb out.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
Lifeguards helped walk her to a stretcher before taking her to a paramedic truck, SkyRanger 7 showed. Magness said the teen was assessed in the ambulance but released. At that point, the sides of the hole can start caving in and it can cave in very rapidly. Leatherman also pointed out the risk of someone stepping on the edge of a hole before the sand dries out and causing a massive collapse."We don't hear much about it, but nationally, there have been a large number of people who have died in sand hole collapses," Leatherman said.
“The risk of this event is enormously deceptive because of its association with relaxed recreational settings not generally regarded as hazardous,” the New England Journal of Medicine study concluded."But you shouldn't be digging holes," he said."If you dig holes — no deeper than two feet, and cover them up when you leave. Keep it shallow and you don't have a problem of collapse.
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