Quicksand isn't like in the movies!
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i used to live in galveston when i was a kid, and all of the ocean front stores and hotels extend out onto the water and are basically on top of really long enormous piers.
like all piers, these structures sit on long posts. once we were walking along the beach and i was looking at marine life and more or less just being a kid. One of the posts that i mentioned was completley out of the water(at low tide ) and it seemed safe enough. As i walked closer to it i felt that the sand was wet, and then as i got a stride closer to it my foot got stuck, or sucked in for lack of a better term. it just started sucking me down extremely fast. i fell back on my ass so that i was mostly on the dryer sand but my lower legs were in the wet sand. i started screaming my brains out, and my mom who was standing no more than 20 feet away, came running. in the time it took her to run 20 feet or less i was sucked in up to my chest. to make matters worse i reached forward with my right hand to try and push off of the post. as soon as my right arm touched this stuff, it sucked it under too and i was completley incapable of saving myself. My mom grabbed my left hand and tried pulling me out. it took all of her strength to do so, and she really freaked out and got the whole superhuman strength thing.
well she got me out, and my shoulder was all ****ed up from the strain.
i realize that this is not the quick sand that you see in movies. it was like the consistancy of a frosty from wendys.
they can say all that they want, but theres no doubt that if my mom would have waited a few more seconds, i would have gone in past the point of no return.
i dont know the scientific explanation for this, but it was as if the sand within five feet all around the post was churning into it self. think like one of those ant lion insects nests only with wet sand. once i got slightly stuck it just pulled me down and grew exponentially faster. the whole thing took less than ten seconds before i was up to my chest.
scarriest shit ever.
like all piers, these structures sit on long posts. once we were walking along the beach and i was looking at marine life and more or less just being a kid. One of the posts that i mentioned was completley out of the water(at low tide ) and it seemed safe enough. As i walked closer to it i felt that the sand was wet, and then as i got a stride closer to it my foot got stuck, or sucked in for lack of a better term. it just started sucking me down extremely fast. i fell back on my ass so that i was mostly on the dryer sand but my lower legs were in the wet sand. i started screaming my brains out, and my mom who was standing no more than 20 feet away, came running. in the time it took her to run 20 feet or less i was sucked in up to my chest. to make matters worse i reached forward with my right hand to try and push off of the post. as soon as my right arm touched this stuff, it sucked it under too and i was completley incapable of saving myself. My mom grabbed my left hand and tried pulling me out. it took all of her strength to do so, and she really freaked out and got the whole superhuman strength thing.
well she got me out, and my shoulder was all ****ed up from the strain.
i realize that this is not the quick sand that you see in movies. it was like the consistancy of a frosty from wendys.
they can say all that they want, but theres no doubt that if my mom would have waited a few more seconds, i would have gone in past the point of no return.
i dont know the scientific explanation for this, but it was as if the sand within five feet all around the post was churning into it self. think like one of those ant lion insects nests only with wet sand. once i got slightly stuck it just pulled me down and grew exponentially faster. the whole thing took less than ten seconds before i was up to my chest.
scarriest shit ever.
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From: limerick
Originally Posted by no_really,Sep 29 2005, 03:42 AM
obviouly this guy has never experienced thick mud IRL, especially the kind that forms after the tide goes out, or on top of a spring. If people float so easily in the stuff, which is essentially water once "the sand and clay then fall to the bottom of the mixture," perhaps he can go on to explain how no-one has ever drowned in an ocean, which is more bouyant than plain water, as well :/
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/quicksand.htm
http://www.inspirationline.com/Brain.../quicksand.htm
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/112/110514.htm
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
http://www.inspirationline.com/Brain.../quicksand.htm
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/112/110514.htm
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
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