I club the thing over the head and that's the end of it.
Where I come from, the attitude to have is to not quit.
At the top of my list for terrain that I hate navigating through, it is definitely the mangrove.
In any survival situation, you need to weigh the risk and the reward.
Everyone knows the rules of three's, you can survive three weeks without food, but not in this environment.
This place has a one, two knockout punch.