Don't Dig Holes On Florida Beaches And Jump Into Them

“”It was like a crater. He was just digging in the sand, and was quite good at it. When we got the call we had no idea this person was buried up to his chin. He’d jumped into the hole and the walls around him collapsed, so there was a great deal of weight on his body. The fear was the walls would collapse again. We have very heavy, coarse sand in south-east Florida, it was a dangerous situation.”
 — Sandra King of the Pompano Beach fire department tells the take of Jakub Maly, a 19-year-old swimmer with the Austrian Olympic team, who dug a big hole on the beach to impress his friends, only to have it collapse around him when he jumped in. Maly was rescued without major injuries.