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 ...

If stumbling into quicksand ranks on your list of worries, don't panic. You won't sink in—at least not all the way. Real quicksand is certainly hard to get out of, but it doesn't suck people ...

In films people sinking in quicksand usually grab onto an overhanging tree branch or are pulled out just as they are about to disappear under the mucky surface.

The reason is that although quicksand doesn’t continue to pull you right under, if you can’t get free in time, a high tide can sweep across you. This is really when quicksand can be dangerous.

Quicksand can't suck you under. Experiments show that humans do not sink all the way into shifting sands. Roxanne Khamsi A plastic toy, like a person, isn't dense ...

A person trapped in quicksand would sink only to his armpits. This point has, ... the sheer impossibility of being sucked under quicksand had been inscribed in standard textbooks by the 1960s.

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 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) ...

Author Kendra Stanton Lee on the Boston beach where she narrowly survived drowning in quicksand, 2020. Kendra Stanton Lee/Courtesy. I felt like I had been lent a new buoyancy, though.