An estuary in Asia? That goo is half human waste.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

"Umm Ma'am? Yeah, there are far safer/less uncomfortable ways to throw yourself into a mud pit for someone to-

You know what? Never mind."

That actually happened once. I think there's a mud festival over here somewhere, and some morning program was doing a live report. A comedian "reporter" did a head dive like that, and wound up breaking his neck. No one realized he had done that, though. They thought it was part of his gag.