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 boat from the pluff mud Tuesday morning, said Ellen Sander, a tourist who watched the rescue mission.
Sander said she and her husband were walking their dogs when they noticed fire trucks around the Morse Park Landing. They stopped and saw the person stuck out in the mud.
“I was wondering why they don’t just walk in and then I was told about the pluff mud,” Sander said…