Anna-Karin sank into the quicksand – right on the beach: Now I die

"Anna-Karin sank into the quicksand – right on the beach: ”Now I die”"

"the Weekend's promenade was close to quit really bad for the 55-year-old Anna-Karin Schill when she suddenly noticed that she sank down in quicksand. She managed to get the sand all the way up to the hip before her husband Tommy came to her rescue. "

" I just thought: ”Now is the time, now I die”, says Anna-Karin to Aftonbladet. "

"Last weekend was Anna-Karin out on a walk at the beach in Manly, which had a dramatic finish, which Ystads Allehanda attention. "

"For Anna-Karin, who is waiting on a hip replacement is the walks on the beach important. She needs to move and the road conditions on the beach are perfect for it. "

" She has taken walks on the same beach for over 40 years – never has she been with if it would occur. "

"– We were in Knäbäck and would turn back towards the Stenshuvud national park, and halfway through, just disappeared I. It was like falling into an ice hole, " says Anna-Karin for the newspaper Aftonbladet. "

"Anna-Karin has been over a puddle that formed on the beach and began to quickly sink deep down in the sand. "

"– I just fell. The more I touched on me the further down I dropped. I felt no bottom, " she says. "

"”Will not dare to go there alone”"

"Anna-Karin panicked and stopped trying to move. "

"I just thought, ”now is the time, now I die, now I have soon clay up to my mouth, I will never from here,” she says. "

"her Husband Tommy runs to Anna-Karin and manages to pull her up. Then they go up against the land and leave the beach. "

"– Had I been myself I would never come up. It is unpleasant. I probably will not dare to go there alone for a long time, " she says. "

"”Looked the same all the way”"

"Anna-Karin can't appreciate how large the area with the quicksand was, but describes it as that the hole edges ”just gave way”. Now she wants to urge others to be careful because she believes that it was not possible to see that there was an area with quicksand right on the beach. "

"– It was so nasty. The beach looked the same all the way, I saw no difference and certainly not one that would be able to sink. What if there is someone elderly or children who go there, " she says. "

"Anna-Karin says that she and her husband Tommy, who is a police officer, has contacted the environmental protection agency in the hope of being able to get to a sign that can warn for that particular area. "

"To the Ystads Allehanda explains geologist Peter Möller that the quicksand is a mixture of normal water and sand. It often occurs near bodies of water and depend on by the groundwater flow – the sea levels will rise quickly, so rises also the water table and then quicksand will occur. "

"He has experienced to end up in the quicksand, and says that it is a nasty, but completely harmless situation. "

"– It is an illusion to disappear. A man falls in principle not further down than to the waist. If you put back, will the legs up after a while, " he says to the newspaper. "