How to get unstuck in deep water?

Troy Angrignon said:

There is so much great advice in this thread @socialseb. But from reading all your (many) questions, you really need to crawl, before you walk or run.

You have the truck. Sort out some wheels/tires (19s if you have to or 18s if you're going to seriously use the truck off road in the long-term). Get out on some easy trails with locals. Do a Land Rover experience day if you can get to one. If you can afford a land rover (and the maintenance) you can afford their training which is excellent. If not them, there are other 4WD training facilities in Texas. Then work your way up.

Coming up with hypotheticals such as you are in this post honestly is a complete waste of time. Might as well ask "If my truck is at the bottom of a lake, how do I get it out?"

Well, backup and think about it. If your truck is stuck at the bottom of a lake or "in deep water where I can't see the bottom and nobody is around to help me"....what the heck led you there? A series of bad decisions. Driving difficult unknown trails...on your own...without a buddy...or recovery gear...and not knowing anything about how to ford bodies of water.

So the right answer is: You should not "suddenly find yourself in this position" at all. If you do, you haven't prepared yourself to be in that situation or it's a just a freak emergency in which case...use what you have at hand and follow all the advice above.

But overall, you're worrying about things that are WAAAY down the track and that if you're smart and learn along the way on your own and with some instruction, you'll know that avoiding deep water is the best course of action in the first place unless as @avslash said you don't mind a $12K-$20K paperweight under the hood.
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navigare said:

A note I’ve already posted elsewhere. Assuming you’re doing the crossing at offroad height (of course), and assuming you have the water level function on your 4x4 menu, the car will sense that a) you are stuck (this also applies on dry land) and b) that water’s coming up the car’s nose. It will then raise itself by 1.5 inch, to so-called Extended height and ask you if you’d like it to raise another 1.5 inch, to Super Extended - then you need to press the brake and the raise button. You thus gain 3 inches or 7.5 cm. That is an OEM function, which however cannot be initiated manually unless you have an IID Tool or a corresponding device. It only comes on automatically when you’re too deep in water/sand/mud or hit and get hung on some rock.

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hickersb said:

Sadly, I don't believe the North American market came with wade sensing. Probably something about lawyers and such...

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