An 82-year-old Louisiana man was rescued by authorities after spending multiple hours stuck in thick mud while fishing.

So not only are we dealing with the terrain, a lot of mud that is over top of the vehicle, but also the fact that it's 70 tons that we're trying to recover out of a swamp or bog,” Brig.

The soldiers were on a training mission Tuesday when their heavy vehicle sank in a swamp in eastern Lithuania ... to extract the vehicle from the mud. “The challenges presented by the water ...

dig out the mud and pull the ARV out of the swamp. On Saturday evening, rescuers attempted to dive toward the sunken vehicle, but a dense layer of mud prevented them from reaching the Hercules.