As a parent myself, this is just a nightmare. "If they fight it, they just sink down more and more. But if you stand up straight and panic, you just sink-and heaven knows, we've all seen those movies. If caught in quicksand, he said, "The advice is to lie on one's back immediately and work one leg at a time until you are out. Deaths from becoming partly stuck in quicksand or mud, then drowning with. "They could have just stepped on it not knowing, or thinking it was very shallow water," Koster van Groos said. Ive reinstated the granular materials category for quicksand. The sand then flows like water, and you sink. "Suddenly, the solidness of the soil you expect is not there any more, and when you try to get out, you lift one leg but move more weight to the other," Koster van Groos said. "It can look solid, but if you step on it, the disturbance can cause all these loosely packed grains to move, and it liquefies," he said. Always consult your own GP if you're in any way concerned about your health.Saying he was only speculating, Koster van Groos said the boys could have walked across the area, thinking it was dry and firm, or that it contained only very shallow water on the surface. The BBC is not liable for the contents of any external internet sites listed, nor does it endorse any commercial product or service mentioned or advised on any of the sites. The BBC is not responsible or liable for any diagnosis made by a user based on the content of this site. A handpicked selection of stories from BBC Future, Earth, Culture, Capital, Travel and Autos, delivered to your inbox every Friday.Īll content within this column is provided for general information only, and should not be treated as a substitute for the medical advice of your own doctor or any other health care professional. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called “ If You Only Read 6 Things This Week ”. Join 500,000+ Future fans by liking us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Instagram. The idea is to stay calm (which might be easier said than done), lean back and spread out to spread your weight more evenly and wait until you float back up to the surface. To survive a fall into dry quicksand, you need outside help as quickly as possible, but what if you find yourself in some wet quicksand, not drowning, but stuck? You need to wiggle your leg a little in order to introduce water to the sand around your feet to liquefy the sand again. Then as they sucked the grain out with an industrial vacuum, the grain couldn’t fall more tightly around him, and he survived. They lowered a cylinder over the man’s body. Authorities found his body three days later, face-down and lodged in quicksand up to the bottom of his buttocks, according to a 2016 Houston Chronicle article. The firefighters did come up with a clever solution, though. Texas authorities think that may have killed a 50-year-old man who apparently went swimming in the San Antonio River in 2015. But soon he was experiencing agonising chest pain and the doctor developed an asthma attack brought on by the dust. Explore the tracklist, credits, statistics, and more for Death Sentence / Quicksand by Psidream / Psidream, Dose, Teknik & Menace. Each time he exhaled, the volume of his chest reduced, causing grain to rush to fill the gap and making it progressively harder for him to breathe.Ī doctor was lowered down on a rope to give him oxygen and a harness was placed around the man’s chest. By the time the firefighters were able to establish which of eight tanks he was in, the grain was up to his armpits and acting according to the classic idea of quicksand, was dragging him down. In 2002 a case report was published telling the tale of a man who fell into a grain store late one evening on a farm in Germany. It is true that struggling can make you sink in further, but would you actually sink far enough to drown? The friction between the sand particles is much-reduced, meaning it can’t support your weight anymore and at first you do sink. But then the water and sand separate, leaving a layer of densely packed wet sand which can trap it. The ground looks solid, but when you step on it the sand begins to liquefy. Quicksand usually consists of sand or clay and salt that’s become waterlogged, often in river deltas. Yet the evidence that the more you struggle, the further you sink until you drown, is rather lacking. They were in everything from Lawrence of Arabia to The Monkees. In the 1960s, one in 35 films featured quicksands. There are so many films featuring death by quicksand that Slate journalist Daniel Engbar has even tracked the peak quicksand years in film. All that’s left is sinister sand, and maybe his hat. A man is caught in quicksand, begging onlookers for help, but the more he struggles, the further down into the sand he is sucked until eventually he disappears.
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