A 17-year-old died inside a deep gap on a North Carolina seaside after a sand dune collapsed and buried him
- A teen died on a North Carolina seaside after a sand dune collapsed whereas he was within a gap.
- The boy turned trapped and buried underneath a mound of sand, the Nationwide Parks Service stated.
- The Nationwide Parks Service warns on its web site that sand is “susceptible to collapsing.”
A 17-year-old boy died over the weekend after he turned trapped inside a deep gap on a North Carolina seaside when a dune collapsed, burying him underneath a mound of sand, officers stated.
The Chesapeake, Virginia, teen wound up trapped inside a gap on Saturday at North Carolina’s Cape Hatteras Nationwide Seashore that had been dug in a back-dune space not seen from the beachfront, the Nationwide Parks Service stated in an announcement.
Earlier than Seashore legislation enforcement rangers helped to tug the teenager from the outlet, household and pals went to seek for him and found him buried underneath a number of ft of sand from a collapsed adjoining dune, officers stated.
The Nationwide Parks Service stated rangers labored with members of the family “to extract the teenager whereas concurrently performing CPR” on the boy, however he couldn’t be saved.
“We urge guests to not dig deep holes on the seaside as a result of hazard they current to beachgoers and emergency response employees,” David Hallac, the superintendent of the Nationwide Parks of Japanese North Carolina, stated within the assertion.
The Nationwide Parks Service warns on its web site that sand at Cape Hatteras Nationwide Seashore is “susceptible to collapsing” and that beach-goers ought to by no means “dig a gap too deep the place you discover your head beneath the sand.”
Simply final yr, a 13-year-old boy died after he dug a tunnel within the aspect of a sand dune, and it collapsed on him at Utah’s Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Park, officers stated on the time.
