If you stop after the first step, the sand particles beneath you get compressed by your weight. Stepping on it initially lowers the viscosity, so you sink.

Undisturbed quicksand appears solid, but it's really a gel. What this means it can change its ability to flow (viscosity) in response to stress. Technically speaking, quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid. If you have to rescue yourself, wriggle your legs to make the quicksand more fluid while trying to sit back into the quicksand to increase your body's surface area.

The best way to prevent a fatality is to keep a charged cell phone with you so you can call for help.

Death can come in the form of suffocation, dehydration, hypothermia, predators, crush syndrome, or drowning from a river or incoming tide.

Even though you can't sink all the way into quicksand, it's a killer.

However, a person or branch can be used to help reduce the victim's weight, making it easier to work free and float.

A rescuer can't simply pull a victim out of quicksand.

Really, the only way to drown from the quicksand is to fall into it head first or face first.

You can only sink into quicksand up to your waist.

It changes its viscosity in response to stress or vibration, allowing you to sink, but making it hard to escape.

Quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid made of sand mixed with water or air.

He said they have not been able to find a location that matches Maiden's description.

Krakeel said inspectors are searching the site for the exact location where the incident happened. 'If signs were posted saying to keep out, or some of this area could be dangerous, or there's known to be quicksand, I would have never walked down there,' Maiden said. 'Why she ventured out into a construction zone, she can only answer that question,' Krakeel said. Still, the county administrator also said he thought it was clear that Lake McIntosh is still a work in progress and a potentially dangerous place at the moment. We thought we had sufficient signage,' Krakeel said. 'We have and are in the process of putting more signage around the perimeter since this incident. Willis asked Jack Krakeel, 'Do you need to put some more signs more barriers out there?' Maiden said that there is not enough protection for residents and not enough warning signs in the area.Ĭhannel 2's Carl Willis asked the county administrator for Fayette County about the safeguards. She said children often walk the area looking for stray golf balls. I didn't struggle.'Īfter making it out, she said her relief turned to concern that others, especially children who play in the area, may get stuck as well. 'Something said 'Suzanne, stop fighting it.

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