The pool is about the size of a big living room, maybe 30 by 20 feet. Jon will check its depth ... I hear the dread word: "Quicksand!" Quicksand is odd: a bed of silt becomes saturated with ...

Getty Quicksand is not like it appears in the movies. The mixture — which is a combination of sand and water, according to Scientific American — typically occurs in areas near water ...

It’s one of the most dramatic survival scenes in movies — someone sinks into quicksand, struggling to escape. But is that ...

Arizona Hiker Who Was Trapped in Quicksand for 11 Hours Before Being Rescued Speaks Out "I just dropped like a rock," Acord told NBC affiliate WCSH. "I was there and then the next minute I wasn't." ...

Greg Foot investigates quicksand and discovers why it's so dangerous. Practical experiments show that quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid that can behave as both a solid and a liquid. The reasons ...