Stepping in quicksand isn't just something that happens in the movies. Certain locations may have quicksand, so it's ...

‘Getting out will take a while, though.’ He said: ‘People hear the word quicksand they think jungle movie. The reality with this supersaturated sand is you’re not going to go under.

By Victor Mather The quicksand depicted in films, when a daring adventurer is suddenly ensnared in a life-threatening vortex of sand, is largely a myth. But that didn’t make it any less scary ...

An curved arrow pointing right. The first step to getting stuck in quicksand: Don't freak out. Humans actually can't drown in the stuff, because we float in it. Getting out can be simple ...

had two narrow escapes from death yesterday when her extreme weight put her in danger in a quicksand. Mrs. Smith went from here to High Hill Beach on the Sunday School picnic of the First ...

It’s the story that has gone viral across social media for almost two weeks now — a Grand Traverse man, Mitchell O’Brien, ...

Greg Foot investigates quicksand and discovers why it's so dangerous. Practical experiments show that quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid that can behave as both a solid and a liquid. The reasons ...