Stuck In A Mud Flat

A 20-year-old man from Illinois drowned after he became stuck in waste-high silt while walking on mud flats in Alaska and rising tides submerged him in water.. Zachary Porter had been walking with

Zachary Porter, a 20-year-old from Illinois, died after getting stuck in mud flats during a trip to Alaska with friends, according to authorities

Authorities said, a 20-year-old man from Illinois who was walking Sunday evening, May 21, 2023, on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary, got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand

Porter was with three friends walking on the mud flat when he got stuck at 552 p.m., Alaska State Troopers spokesman Austin McDaniel said. Rescuers were unable to free him before the tide came in

The heartbroken family of a 20-year-old Illinois man who drowned Sunday after getting stuck in quicksand-like silt on Alaska's mud flats said he loved to travel and was on an quotadventure

The family of Zachary Porter is speaking out after his death. He drowned after getting stuck in the Alaskan mud flats at the Turnagain Arm estuary. httpsa

A man walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him.

There have been other deaths on the mud flats. In 1988, newlyweds Adeana and Jay Dickison were gold dredging on the eastern end of the arm when her ATV got stuck in the mud, the Anchorage Daily

A channel flows through the mud flats along the Seward Highway and Turnagain Arm in Alaska on Oct. 25, 2014. Authorities said, a 20-year-old man from Illinois who was walking Sunday evening, May 21, 2023, on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary, got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him.

A man walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic rescuers could extract him