![]() > Has anyone ever had an experience with deep mud or quicksand while they On Saturday, Maat 4:00:00 AM UTC-4, wrote: If this "sucking mud" would have held me until I became a fossil for future It's full length - 9 feet or so - without meeting any resistance. (after washing off in the nearby stream). I took a long stick and probed it into the mud from the safety of the bank Threw my upper body back onto the bank for stability. I was immediately in mud up to my waist, and literally "dry" riverbed about a foot down to the slightly muddy, but more level surface In a side canyon in Navajo country and I simply stepped off the side of a ![]() I had a similar experience in the south rim country of Arizona. I may not have drown as it seems I had hit > once jumped onto what I thought was a sand bar from the far bank of a creek. > I don't think you have to worry about it hiking, if you're careful!! I Some reason, this clay was cold enough to freeze my finger tips. The gray-white color which was typical of frostbite. As I washed off the thick layer of clay, I could see The neighbors came out and took pictures. That muddy clay was cold! Well, when we got home, we wereĬovered with this gray mud. I had to get the boots out by digging them out with my hands. Suction held them in tight, and as I pulled them up, I forced Working on getting the boots out of the mud. Now a good parent shouldn't put a kid down in the mud withoutīoots on, so I inserted him back into the boots and started He was just a bit more than ankle deep in the mud. The ground wasĪl of the sudden, JP2 (the youngest guy) started crying because There was a section beingĬleared for a housing project and we crossed it. It wasĮarly spring and most snow was gone. I was out for a hike with the 2 kids (age 3 and 4 maybe). If I hadn't been so cheapĪnd tried to save it, we wouldn't have had any problem. Quicksand under moving water is very dangerous.īy the way, the hot springs are excellent, the stream is beautiful, and yes, I still remember the moment rather vividly, and I suggest that you learnįrom my experience. I was able to work myself out of the quicksand, but The danger was in being stuck in the sand, unable to move, waist deep in Running down in between some boulders and then flowing up through the I think that the quicksand was caused by water Hot springs at Bonneville campground I inadvertantly placed myself inĮxtreme jeapordy by stepping in quicksand at the bottom of this rapidlyįlowing, but small, stream. South Fork of the Payette River, Idaho, between the highway and the While fishing on the Warm Springs Creek which is a tributary of the anyone ever had an experience with deep mud or quicksand while they Was almost impossible but could be done with something overhead to The problem was serious if we turned the water off while the subject Was no more quicksand, but just sandy water in agitation. Once the water flow rate increased past a certain point, there Would probably have a problem, but feet first is not very serious.ĭepending on the water flow rate, we could vary how fast the subjects All said, if you fell head first into quicksand you Actually, you can lay flat on quick sand and do a Sand) If we filled the packs with water jugs, the subjects would not People would sink down to the chest level ( with the pack full of Public that you will not sink in quicksand. We put different student volunteers in the tank to demonstrate to the Various grades of sand and forced water up through it and out the top. One of our exhibitsįor many years was the quicksand tank. Public where we showed our engineering prowess. Let me know if you have ever been in it,Įvery year in engineering school, we had a spring demo open to the From what I understand it does exist and some people have >Has anyone ever had an experience with deep mud or quicksand while they Maybe someone here would like to volunteer to prove me right? Of non-fiction an account of anyone ever dying in "quicksand" or a The summer way." And, in fact, I don't think I've ever read in any book It porous enough to let your body sink in it, there's enough water toįloat you, albeit in a less than perfect, "in the lake by the cottage in Other words, whether sand or mud, if there's enough water in it to make Lighter than sand so that you just ain't gonna sink unless you're a foolĮnough to thrash your way uncontrollably down and basically drown. Such a thing, something about the specific gravity of your body being I have heard and read, a number of times, from sources that struck meĪs quite authoritative and (even better), for reasons that at the time Iįound very sound, that you really ain't in danger of "quicksand." Iĭon't think I can recapitulate the science behind it but while there is > people have had problems because of it. From what I understand it does exist and some Has anyone ever had an experience with deep mud or quicksand while
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