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LeftInTX

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Sat Oct 15, 2022, 05:24 PM Oct 2022

Not Gilligan's Island: Texas man killed by quicksand on the San Antonio River [View all]

Records obtained by mySA.com reveal a man died last summer after getting stuck in quicksand on the San Antonio River and drowning in South Texas.

The extremely rare quicksand case, which previously went unreported by news outlets, is the only one of its kind in at least five years in Texas, according to records detailing the 580 deaths that occurred on rivers and lakes in that time period, obtained from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Quicksand-Texas-river-dead-rare-9227418.php

This happened in 2015, but I never heard of it. I never hear of anyone dying from quicksand, (except in the movies) but it happened in South Texas of all places!

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