![]() ![]() Once loosened by the water, a person can then slowly lift their legs back up to the surface and gently paddle or '"swim" out as they float along the surface. Youre another lost soul, trapped in a freefall, desperately trying to claw your way out and only sinking deeper into the quicksand in the process. ![]() ![]() You cannot easily pull someone straight out of quicksand, instead, a person stuck is meant to rotate their legs in "slow, small movements" which will help reintroduce water between the sand and the legs, Australian Geographic reports. We all think quicksand is some joke that only happens in cartoons, but if you ever find yourself stuck in quicksand and start to panic, you will be glad you. What is the safest way to escape quicksand? To get out, the lone woman explained she had to lie on her stomach and rolled, then clawed her way out of the sandy quagmire - a method that is, somewhat surprisingly, backed by science. Descending about up to the waist is possible, but not any further. At that level of density, sinking in quicksand is impossible. "I just went down," she responded to one of her followers. Have you ever been out for a hike and stopped at a sandy spot by the water to take a picture As you rustle through your backpack, you notice something happe. Quicksand has a density of about 2 grams per milliliter, whereas the density of the human body is only about 1 gram per milliliter. The Kiwi had been walking along Milford Beach on Auckland's North Shore when she sunk into the ground, with sand consuming her all the way up to her thighs "immediately". The hundreds of thousands of people who have watched it since it was posted over the weekend expressed absolute horror that quicksand is not something made up by Hollywood movies and demanded more information on where she was, and how she removed herself. The woman says she has been walking along this beach most of her life and nothing like this has ever happened. ![]()
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