Can quicksand be shallow ?

Question

people always talk about sinking in quicksand ...

Answer 1

Actually, most "quicksand" (which should be better termed as quickmud) is very shallow (usually to your ankle). Sometimes (like when walking across a partially dried lake bed) it does get very deep, but usually you can pull yourself put before things get tense. I've never heard of someone dying in quicksand.

Answer 2

Quicksand is usually only a few feet deep. And it's almost hard to sink into quicksand since it's so much more dense than the human body. Easier to float on than water. The real danger lays in the fact that because it's so dense, once you're in it it's hard to move to get out. It's usually a mixture of soil, water, and clay, so it's rather thick and sometimes sticky. The high density of it will actually push you up tot eh surface eventually, but dehydration, sun, or approaching water is what makes it so hazardous.

Answer 3

It's deep enough! We were losing one of our 4 wheelers in quicksand at the sand dunes. It took at least a half dozen men to work together to get it out before we lost it, it was over 3/4 buried, whew. Quicksand is DEFINITELY nothing to mess with!

Answer 4

If you're in quicksand, it's deep.

Stay out of tidal marshland at low tide, if you find it's hard to walk in it, don't go out too deep.

If you do find you're in quick sand, don't struggle, don't panic. Try to swim on the surface to the firm land.

If you see someone in it, don't go in there after them. Use a long object and tell them to grab hold tight, and hold their breath. Pull them to safety.

Answer 5

i dont believe so because quicksand is a spring that has formed under sand. so basicaly its a hole in the ground with water pumping out of it that churns the sand

Answer 6

Yes it can. Movies always portray it as been a bottomless pit of sinking sand but this is rarely the case.

Answer 7

ive heard its always deeep so never heard of it being shallow