“As soon as I got out I was like, I was shaking because I was like, ‘holy s***, what the hell just happened?’ and then I couldn’t sort of believe it,” she said. Rocks thrown by Bray into the sand simply disappeared. She threw rocks into the sand, recording the results as they plunged down, and ascertained that the area was only about1m across. Once she was clear she realised she had twisted her ankle and knee from the force of having to pull herself free and, shocked by what had occurred, set about trying to discover how big the treacherous patch was. The survival tips, taken from Joshua Piven and David Borgenicht’s Worst-Case Scenario series of books and cards, advise those stuck to remain vertical until they sink to their knees, then slowly flop onto their back, pulling their legs out before rolling to safety.īray almost got it right -she flopped onto her front - but she was able to roll to safety and grabbed the nearby steps down to the beach. Trapped in the sand at her local beach, largely deserted because of the blustery conditions and with the tide coming in, Bray needed to move fast, and says she instantly recalled advice she had pinned to her bedroom wall as a teenager. Vanessa Bray took this photo after she escaped the sand. “I took one step with my left leg,” Bray told the Herald, “and it went in shin-deep”.įearing she might lose her shoe, she planted her right leg in the sand for leverage - and it disappeared, up to her thigh. But this time was different and it all happened in an instant, as she passed near a stormwater outfall. High tide wasn’t far away as Bray took to her local beach for a stroll, as she had done countless times before. Vanessa Bray was walking on Milford Beach, on Auckland’s North Shore, on late Friday afternoon when she stepped on what she thought was solid sand - and straight into a scene from a Hollywood movie.
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