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Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2007 6:20 pm**

Saturday May 5, 2007 - Charleston South Carolina

Phoyo by Alan Hawes
Charleston Fire Dept. Captain Richard Waring helps rescue Benjamin Fischer from the pluff mud beneath the James Island Connector after a crash that sent him off the bridge with his motorcycle Saturday May 5, 2007. Fischer told rescuers he was not seriously hurt. The drop was estimated at over sixty feet.

Phoyo by Alan Hawes
Rescuers stand under the James Island Connector where 17 year-old Benjamin Fischer and his motorcycle landed when he crashed over the side of the bridge Saturday, May 5, 2007.

Phoyo by Alan Hawes
Charleston Fire Dept. Captain Richard Waring helps Benjamin Fischer, 17, from the pluff mud beneath the James Island Connector after a crash that sent him off the bridge with his motorcycle Saturday May 5, 2007. He told rescuers he was not seriously hurt. The drop was estimated at over sixty feet.

Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2007 8:30 pm**

What the heck is "pluff mud"?

Posted: **Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:26 pm**

Pluff mud is a lowcountry term to describe the dark soft soil in the marshes. Pluff mud typically has a distinct odor that is the result of some combination of bacteria, water content and climate.

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:54 am**

Looks like it has a large quantity of crude mixed in with it as well... lol

Posted: **Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:47 am**

Holy cow!! 60 feet? from an accident? that's insane. I've done 50 feet into deep water and felt like I dropped for 1 minute. It also didn't feel very much water. xD

I bet he had some time to think over what was happening in the 60 feet.

Posted: **Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:50 am**

The guy is lucky! This mud saved his life

But his mimics

made me laugh!

Posted: **Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:27 pm**

You do learn new things here, I never heard of pluff mud and man it looks like the stuff from some nuclear test site or worse yet a sewage plant over run. Glad to hear he is ok, I bet he now likes pluff mud.

Posted: **Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:40 pm**

And a 'connector' is...?

Enlighten an oldeworlde Briton on this point. Presumably it has something to do with the roadway, above?

"pluff mud", "connector", I'm getting serious overload here.

Anyone remember, 'the creature from the black lagoon' Wow! This guy has a career in remakes.

Posted: **Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:29 am**

I think connector is like an on ramp, connects the road your on to the highway/freeway youre going onto.

Posted: **Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:50 am**

NorthernPete wrote:I think connector is like an on ramp, connects the road your on to the highway/freeway youre going onto.

It could also be a road or bridge that connects two parts of the same town separated by a body of water or a rail yard etc...

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Motorcycle and Rider run off bridge into pluff mud. (photos)

Motorcycle and Rider run off bridge into pluff mud. (photos)