![]() But you can get stuck and die of exposure. This means you aren’t really ever in danger of drowning in quicksand. Worst case scenario, you sink to about waist deep. Quicksand is denser than the human body, so it’s not possible to just sink all the way under. That’s because quicksand is just like any other fluid in that things that are less dense than the quicksand will tend to float in it. Q: Have there ever been quicksand deaths?Ī: Yes… but not from drowning a la Buttercup’s fate before Wesley intervened. I think it would have caused less confusion. Honestly they should have just called it tricksand. Like honey or molasses or whatever this Double Dare pool is filled with: Once you step down on it the grains of sand “collapse” like a house of cards, and the quicksand acts more like a really thick liquid. It may just look like regular old sand, or maybe wet sand, but the structure is not very stable. This means that more water can fit in the spaces between the sand grains. In quicksand the grains are packed more loosely. With dry sand, the sand grains are packed in tight so they can support your weight. Q: How does quicksand work? Or what happens if you step in quicksand?Ī: Quicksand is a substance in which the particles of one material (such as sand or clay) are suspended in water. ![]() How else would you explain what happened to Buttercup? And yet, no one ever really saw quicksand, did they? So, The Prompt staff went to our favorite science guy, Jesse Stone, to ask him questions about this wild enigma.Ī: Yes, it is absolutely a real thing. You lived in a constant panic that you might drown. You created games in which your friends or enemies fell into it and died. For some reason, if you grew up between 19, your life was filled with an endless stream of terrorizing propaganda about a deathly and mysterious substance called quicksand. ![]()
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