This will increase your buoyancy as well as keep you calm. If you have a trekking pole, use it horizontally under your back when getting up to a floating position.

Try to find a branch or something to hold on to.

When your feet reach the surface, try to move very slowly to the “s hore”.

Try to lean backward to a back-floating position.

It’s possible that you could reach the solid ground from where you came if you weren’t walking too fast when you fell in. If you can, take off your shoes, your jacket, etc. For every inch you move upward, let the sand fill the space underneath.

If you’re in deeper than your knees, you can’t walk out, so just forget that, and do the following.

It is practically impossible to sink lower than to half your body, about your waist-line. A sand/water mix in quicksand, on the other hand, has a density of around 2 kilogram/liter. Water has a density of about 1 kilogram/liter. The reason for this is that even though it’s much denser than water, it still follows the laws of nature. Not under normal conditions, and not the so-called wet quicksand. Can sinking in quicksand swallow you whole? Instead, you should try riverbanks, marshes, and areas close to lakes and the sea. As water is a necessary ingredient, deserts probably do not host any quicksand. In the old movies, quicksand was sometimes found in the desert. The saturated sediment that forms the surface will suddenly break and you will fall in. On top, i t will appear solid, and you won’t know what it is until you’ve put your weight on it with your foot. In some cases, the material, usually sand or clay mixes with the water and creates a kind of porridge. But sometimes, a pocket of water without drainage can form, or there can be streaming water under the surface, sideways, or upwards.

Under normal co nditions, rainwater or sea water will sink through the soil to the groundwater level. Most common is still quicksand made from sand, slit, or clay, mainly because that’s what you would find in nature. Any granular material can in theory form some sort of quicksand-ish substance.

But what is the truth about all that? What is quicksand and how does it form?įirst of all, it’s not only sand.

Man stuck in quicksand