Missing Florida man found buried to his
shoulders in quicksand, check out dramatic rescue
BizPac Review,
by
Frieda Powers
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Posted By: ladydawgfan,
3/2/2026 3:05:20 PM
A missing man in Florida was found and rescued after being buried shoulder-deep in quicksand.
Dramatic bodycam video footage showed the rescue of the man who had been reported missing before first responders found him stuck in the sand pit at Vulcan Materials Company, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.
The Jacksonville man, identified as 36-year-old Andrew Giddens, was reported missing last month after a welfare check following concerns about his depressed state of mind due to a break-up, according to a Fox Weather report.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 3/2/2026 3:27:26 PM (No. 2075214)
More like deep mud than quicksand, but geez, he's lucky they found him. Sounds like at least a day and a half stuck without food or water, maybe longer.
This area is maybe 25 miles from where I used to live in HS,rural central Fla. I worked probably 5 miles from there at a cattle feedlot operation a couple of summers, too.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bezalel 3/2/2026 3:32:53 PM (No. 2075218)
We were trained by childhood 60's TV on how to handle this situation. Did Lassie run to get help, or was this a job for Trigger using his reins to pull the victim out of the mud? Or was it Rin Tin Tin pulling on the end of a stick? It happened all the time. Watch out for the abandoned wells, too!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ravineaux 3/2/2026 4:29:02 PM (No. 2075228)
#1, is he lucky that snakes didn't get him during the night?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 3/2/2026 4:43:28 PM (No. 2075234)
Re #3, in this season, snakes are not at all active in NCentral Florida. They are cold blooded and just about cannot function in cool/cold weather. And lest one think that "it's Florida, gotta be warm". Well, yeah, much warmer than Buffalo, or Minneapolis for certain, but while the days may be 70s this time of year, it will be 55-60 at night, and this means limited reptile movement because they will be cold and sluggish.
Also, this is some sort of a sand extraction operation, and this is probably a mud dumping location as the sand is separated for sale, the mud is flushed to a big holding pond area. Not going to be really much of a wildlife habitat out in the mud for many years, so not much for the snakes to be hunting for down there. More likely snakes would stay up in those treed areas seen on the horizon in the videos.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 3/2/2026 5:00:14 PM (No. 2075237)
Another point about snakes. A rattlesnake or cottonmouth/water moccasin wouldn't have any interest in him except to get away. They eat frogs, small mammals like mice, rats and maybe the occasional small rabbit. If you approach them and they are unable to get away, they may strike in self defense, but they sure as heck don't see humans as a thing to attack, ever, if they have a way to get away.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
offrope 3/2/2026 5:42:58 PM (No. 2075241)
When I was a kid, watching TV and movies made me think that quicksand would be a much bigger danger to me than it has been.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
berthabutt 3/2/2026 7:28:07 PM (No. 2075265)
He should have feared the R.O.U.S.!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 3/2/2026 7:35:18 PM (No. 2075270)
I am sort of irked that the article did not state when he went missing other than "last month' which could have been a day and a half ago at the time of the article being penned.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Snow Possum 3/2/2026 7:36:47 PM (No. 2075271)
Here is the detail left out of this article.
Went missing on Valentine's day. THAT is an important fact that the article just did not bother with stating.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 3/2/2026 7:38:02 PM (No. 2075272)
I thought that the whole idea of there being something called quicksand was debunked a few years ago; that it was just an imaginative creation of Hollywood.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Catherine 3/2/2026 8:19:21 PM (No. 2075287)
Yeoooo - Rinnie!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 3/2/2026 9:04:49 PM (No. 2075298)
#10 is exactly correct. "Quicksand" per se is a myth.
This had to be some deep, very soft clay mud. It can be very stickly, adherent and may be impossible to extricate yourself from.
The impossible part of quicksand is that the density of this stuff would be such that you will FLOAT, not sink and sure as heck never get "sucked down" like in the silly movies.
I am skeptical about this guy being embedded to his shoulders, too. Floatation is the reason. At some point, you float on any fluid when the weight of the fluid displaced matches your body weight. Since this mud and any 'quicksand' would be much denser than flesh and bones, you'd reach flotation by perhaps your waist or less. You might be stuck tight and can't get out, but you won't continue to sink.
Just like a boat, you'd reach equilibrium.
Perhaps he managed to struggle while trying to 'swim' out and was exhausted and laying at a 45 degree angle embedded in the mud.
Steers die if mudbound from total exhaustion.
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