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The young man of 17 years was output with pals at Newport Beach Wednesday afternoon, digging tunnels and try to make them meet. But when Mina climbed into his hole, the surrounding sand collapsed and placed it literally of six feet under.
“I thought I was going to die”, Mina told Matt Lauer and Ann Curry direct satellite of Orange, California, Thursday. “I was really scared.” I knew if anyone could hear me when I was screaming for help. ?
Frantic rescuers
Fortunately, the cousin of Mina had seen what happened and alerted rescuers. While several fans began to try to dig the teen trapped out, using tools improvised flippers for swimming, boogie boards, search and poured three communities rescue teams.
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The buzz of activity caught the eyes of Skip Snead. He had filed her son, 10 years to a friend and was at home when the saw fire trucks and police cars to the scene. Fearing that rescuers could search his own son, he followed the on the site. He had a video camera with him.
“I frantically sought, ensure that my child was not buried in the sand,” Snead, appearing alongside Mina today, said Curry and Lauer. “I was very scared, and when I discovered this was not my son, I leave just the camera roll.”.
As he did, not Snead thought he was going to save a happy ending. “We thought they were going into a corpse.”
Mina doubted its survival, said Curry and Lauer he “did nothing” people were trying to dig him, their efforts muffled by 6 feet of sand. Fortunately, he could breathe during his ordeal.
“I launch my head autour, is trying to make some room because my arms were kind of behind me,” the teenager said Curry and Lauer. “I pretty fact share some wiggle room – I had a small air pocket.”
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When rescuers finally reached him after a few long 30 minutes, Mina was in a second State. “I heard people, [but] I was fading and out; “I was kind of unconscious under the sand”, said.
Snead, a surfing magazine editor, said that when Mina was pulled to safety, the large crowd watching the drama unfold burst into applause. The young person was transported to the hospital, was treated and then released, little the worse for its ordeal.
Video: Teen buried in the sand: “I thought I was going to die ‘ (on this page).
Head of the fire of Newport Beach Jeff Boyles said KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, he considered that the tunneling Beach Mina and his buddies have participate as “a very dangerous operation”, and that the young person has had the chance of surviving.
“The fact that he is alive today – I think that there a lot of things to the upside of chance and great efforts of the rescuers and staff of fire that was dug,”Boyles said.”
Lauer asked Mina if his days digging were above. He cracked a smile a little ill at ease and replied: “” Yeah, so far – finally! “”
Snead added: “I can’t believe that he lived.” I am seated beside a human death walk now. ?
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