Though the threat of drowning in quicksand may be a core fear of any movie buff, some social media users have claimed it is "physically impossible to sink entirely in quicksand." One Reddit post ...

Thankfully, and contrary to those dramatic film scenes, quicksand won't ever pull you completely under because humans are a lot less dense than quicksand. Which means you'll probably only sink to ...

Quicksand does just enough with its high concept premise to keep the tension from sinking under the weight of over sentimentality. Sending User Rating 0 ( 0 votes) ...

Quicksand is formed by sand becoming saturated with water and put under friction. This causes it to become mushy, ... She then began sinking. "The quicksand I fell into wasn't so much sand as clay ...

Quicksand is odd: a bed of silt becomes saturated with water so that its grains no longer cohere. Heavy objects — a cow, a log, my husband — sink readily but can't easily rise.

Quicksand has been a silent, gloopy threat in movies for decades now. It claims a desert victim in Lawrence of Arabia, it almost sucks Alan (Robin Williams) down through the floorboards in Jumanji ...

It’s swim — or sink — at one Maine beach dealing with a sudden rash of quicksand scares. Jamie Acord was strolling along the water in Popham Beach State Park last weekend with her husband ...

Something about sinking in quicksand seemed to concentrate the mind wonderfully, and now they are official. Victor Mather, who has been a reporter and editor at The Times for 25 years, covers ...