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Elaine@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Toes@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Quicksand is still a thing, like freshly poured foundation or mud at the bottom of a pond.

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  • spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Quicksand was never a problem for me, but growing up on a farm, soft mud was often a problem for me. Good news is you can pretty immediately tell when you’re walking through the stuff and can just…turn around. Worst that happens is you lose a boot, and that genuinely sucks.

    But it’s not the kind of thing you step into and you’re up to your knee in 2 seconds.

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  • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But you don’t sink all the way into it

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Unless you panic and thrash about. The force required to pull your leg out is more than the force of buoyancy keeping you up. So if you are up to your hips, and you just try to step out, you will keep sinking. Once your chest is under, it will be hard to breathe and the panic gets worse.

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      • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Could be. I have never encountered quicksand but I have heard that you don’t really sink past your waist.

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      • Xephonian@retrolemmy.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nope. Sand+water is less buoyant than you. You float. Death comes from dehydration or exhaustion. Not from drowning.

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