Holes in the sand safety reminder...

This article may have been a bit more timely before the season was over, but it's always good info regardless of the time of year...

The hole James Boyden was digging in the Rhode Island beach wasn?t that deep ? just chest-high to a 17-year-old boy who stands around 5 feet tall. But when he bent down to do some more excavating, the loose sand collapsed, burying the boy in suffocating darkness.

He barely escaped collapsing sand hole alive - People: Tales of survival