Quicksand startles woman who suddenly sinks hip deep at Popham Beach Rangers at the state park were expected to install warning signs telling beachgoers what to do if they step in supersaturated sand.

“I couldn’t feel the bottom," recollected a woman who suddenly sank to her hip on a beach after getting trapped in quicksand. Thursday, Jul 10, 2025 New Delhi o C ...

Quicksand is odd: a bed of silt becomes saturated with water so that its grains no longer cohere. Heavy objects — a cow, a log, my husband — sink readily but can't easily rise.

It’s swim — or sink — at one Maine beach dealing with a sudden rash of quicksand scares. Jamie Acord was strolling along the water in Popham Beach State Park last weekend with her husband ...

SMITHTOWN, N.Y. (WCBS/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A man found himself in a scary situation when he sunk up to his waist in quicksand-like mud while walking his dog, prompting a police rescue. 24-year ...

The quicksand depicted in films, ... Man sinks in quicksand and emerges with a girlfriend . April 20, ... Soon enough, O’Brien was waist-deep in the sand.

Hunter Sinks In Mud That Acted Like Quicksand. October 28, 2016 / 9:44 AM MDT / CBS Colorado ... Caller: I started at like knee-deep and I'm already all the way up to the bottom of my chest.

An Arizona man, who was hiking with his girlfriend at Zion National Park in Utah, recounted being stuck hip-deep in quicksand about 11 hours over the weekend during a winter storm to Fox News ...

Falling into quicksand isn't quite as bad as some movies make it out to be. Instead of being sucked all the way in, quicksand victims will float once they get about waist deep, according to a new ...

1. Deep, wet sand that you sink into if you try to walk on it. 2. A treacherous situation that tends to entrap and destroy. Mike “Quicksand” Pyle is the former WEC Welterweight champion, and ...

Quicksand seems like a rare hazard found only in the jungle based off the movies, but it’s more common than one might think. It's more common than you might think.