2/16/2024 0 Comments Guy stuck in quicksand![]() ![]() Ask for and take the advice of rangers and locals in the know. ![]() The best thing to do is get to know the area you plan on going to before hitting the beach with your four-wheel drive. If you’ve driven your car into quicksand, you cannot pull the car out using other vehicles. And the cowboy actually dying from having the rope around his waist,” he says.ĭaniel doesn’t know how true those stories are, but it’s a good urban legend and a cautionary tale of what can happen if you try. Thankfully, a Redditor has recently shared a clip of a very brave man instructing the public on what to do if they ever find themselves stuck in the wet sand. “There are all kinds of stories about cowboys lassoing their rope around their horse and the horse, trying to pull them out. This could severely injure you because of the sheer force needed to remove you. ![]() Or get your friends to tie a rope around you and use their truck to pull you out. If you get stuck in quicksand, and then a tide comes in, you could drown and get killed. I saw a video that was like an hour and a half long, with most of the video just sitting quietly looking at the mud after he sank in it. You can slowly lift your legs back up to the surface and gently paddle out, as demonstrated in this Australian Academy of Science video.ĭon’t take guidance from Hollywood and get a cowboy to lasso you with a rope and use their horse to pull you out. I don’t think he met it was really fake just that the cameraman didn’t help because he knew the guy was trained and knew how to escape. Instead, rotate your legs in slow, small movements to reintroduce water between the sand and your legs. We are not as dense as quicksand, so we will only ever sink partway like a rubber ducky in a tub. What Daniel found is that we can never drown in quicksand. Zachary Porter, of Lake Bluff, Illinois, was walking on the. After an Arizona man was rescued from quicksand at Zion National Park in Utah, we look at how you can get stuck in quicksand and how you can get out. Thankfully, our iconic devil didn’t sink beneath the quicksand, never to be seen again.Īs quirky as this experiment sounds, it has real-life applications. A 20-year-old man from Illinois died after getting stuck in quicksand-like silt in an Alaska estuary and drowning when the tide came in. He collected samples of quicksand in Iran and analysed what it was made from – mix of fine sand, saltwater and clay.ĭaniel then used beads and other items, including (bizarrely) a Tassie devil figurine with similar densities to humans, to check whether they would ‘drown’ in the quicksand he re-created in the lab. This was a question Dr Daniel Bonn, Professor of Physics at the University of Amsterdam, was determined to answer. Is this fear warranted? Can you really drown in quicksand? Perhaps the fear of quicksand engendered in many of us is compounded by a snake being used to pull Indiana Jones out of quicksand in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.Īlthough quicksand is no longer a go-to for films, fear around it remains. ![]()
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