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You still can very much die in quicksand but the problem is that you get like your foot stuck in a way that you just can't escape and then you just die out ther
by th0ma5 1y ago
You still can very much die in quicksand but the problem is that you get like your foot stuck in a way that you just can't escape and then you just die out there like that. But the idea that you sink down and drowned is some kind of weird combination of a swamp and not really quicksand but is much more filmable.
- dmurray 1y agoYou get your foot stuck in and then the tide comes in and you drown. Most quicksand I'm aware of is in tidal flats [0] [1] and it really is dangerous to take a short cut over them. Come to think of it, most normal sand I encounter is in tidal flats, too. [0] https://www.98fm.com/news/north-dublin-beaches-quicksand-warning-signs-installed-1059508 https://www.98fm.com/news/north-dublin-beaches-quicksand-war... [1] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/southend-on-sea-deadly-path-deaths-quicksand-essex-a9034946.html https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/southend-on-sea-deadly-...
- bityard 1y agoI don't know why, but I expected quicksand to be an Australia thing. "Even the dirt tries to kill you."
- _carbyau_ 1y ago"Quicksand" is the harder sand just above the water line that is more solid and faster to walk/run on.... /s
- eqvinox 1y agoGreat, now the smartass in me thinks everywhere is quicksand because it's just a bunch of compacted sand¹ on top of the groundwater aquifer… ¹ yes I know soil is not sand
- riffraff 1y agowell, dirt does kill you in Australia. In multiple[0] ways[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldust [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkholderia_pseudomallei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkholderia_pseudomallei
- RGamma 1y agoNintendo taught me that quicksand is located in deserts.