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The boy had to be pulled out of the sand hole he made when he collapsed on the beach at Point Lonsdale.
A Melbourne surf rescue club warned against digging deep holes in the beach after a teenager got stuck in the sand over the weekend.
The boy had been building sand tunnels on Point Lonsdale’s back beach on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula when the structure collapsed, requiring paramedics to excavate and rescue him around 5.30pm.
He was taken to Geelong Hospital in stable condition for further evaluation.
Carrum Surf Life Saving Club President Ben Rooks advised against digging deep holes on the beach at 3AW this morning, warning that the activity was dangerous.
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“Beaches are very dynamic environments and the sand is inherently unstable, so the advice would be: don’t dig big holes,” he said.
“The sand is very heavy … so if you are suddenly in a hole and it collapses, that is a lot of weight and a lot of pressure on the body.”
Rooks said a hole big enough to fit a person in is “too deep” and “not safe.”
“You often can’t just get by,” he said.
This story first appeared in Nine News and republished with permission.
