If you’re ever out on a Lowcountry beach you might encounter pluff mud — an ultra-sticky substance that both sinks and stinks. While pluff mud is an integral part of the Grand Strand’s ecosystem, you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re ever out on a Lowcountry beach you might encounter pluff mud — an ultra-sticky substance that both sinks and stinks.

Getting stuck in the pluff mud is common. Calling the fire department to be rescued from it is not. The Murrells Inlet-Garden City Fire Department pulled a fisherman stranded on a personal pontoon ...

A retiree fishing on one of South Carolina’s islands had to be rescued after he accidentally stepped in the notorious coastal quicksand known as “pluff mud.” It happened around 11 a.m. Friday, June 7, ...

Midway Fire Rescue responded to the call around 11 a.m. Friday, June 7, and lifted the man out. Midway Fire Rescue photo A retiree fishing on one of South Carolina’s islands had to be rescued after he ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — In a field of gray spread out on their video screen, all that rescue crews could see was a tiny white dot. But as the drone approached, mangled tufts of reeds and thick pluff mud ...

Katie Jo Buchanan, also known as the Pluff Mud Princess on social media, is a Charleston local who spends a lot of time out on the water fishing and teaching others how to fish. But unlike most ...