The Weather Network has recently added this short video with some footage, and captions about the reality of quicksand, to their website:
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/vi ... st_popular
Short QS Video on The Weather Network Website
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Short QS Video on The Weather Network Website
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Another report saying you can't really sink like they do in the movies. I get that, but surely the point of our little community is that quicksand does what WE want it to do, not real life ? after all, it's our fantasy, surely ?
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Most of the people who keep telling us how quicksand behaves have never actually encountered the stuff. I've had a couple of moments that would really surprise these "experts".
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Duncan Edwards wrote:Most of the people who keep telling us how quicksand behaves have never actually encountered the stuff. I've had a couple of moments that would really surprise these "experts".
would you mind sharing about those moments? please, i do love a good QS story, either here or another thread...thx
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Herzeleid wrote:Another report saying you can't really sink like they do in the movies. I get that, but surely the point of our little community is that quicksand does what WE want it to do, not real life ? after all, it's our fantasy, surely ?
more than a fantasy, if you ask me. several times ive almost gone under in quicksand with no real way to escape
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RanThroughLust wrote:Herzeleid wrote:Another report saying you can't really sink like they do in the movies. I get that, but surely the point of our little community is that quicksand does what WE want it to do, not real life ? after all, it's our fantasy, surely ?
more than a fantasy, if you ask me. several times ive almost gone under in quicksand with no real way to escape
I'd like to know how that was possible unless you're really trying
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Raptor90 wrote:RanThroughLust wrote:Herzeleid wrote:Another report saying you can't really sink like they do in the movies. I get that, but surely the point of our little community is that quicksand does what WE want it to do, not real life ? after all, it's our fantasy, surely ?
more than a fantasy, if you ask me. several times ive almost gone under in quicksand with no real way to escape
I'd like to know how that was possible unless you're really trying
idk. sometimes the mud is just a lot deeper than expected. i go in expecting to only go up to my thighs at most, get stuck, struggle, sink to my stomach. try to struggle even harder, go up to the chest completely stuck. luckily got saved by a passerby once
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Herzeleid wrote:Another report saying you can't really sink like they do in the movies. I get that, but surely the point of our little community is that quicksand does what WE want it to do, not real life ? after all, it's our fantasy, surely ?
The report is correct for the real thing (100% sand and water that presses the particles apart.
Still i know and experienced quite a number of both boggy and tidal places where the mud (not quicksand) eagerly can swallow a struggling victim and prevent it from plopping back up to the surface.
I'm already chindeep in this mudbog and every desperate attempt to move my stuck legs only drives me deeper in. The thick mud slowly swamps my waders and my arms have nothing to hold onto.
I'm feeling home.
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bogbud wrote:Herzeleid wrote:Another report saying you can't really sink like they do in the movies. I get that, but surely the point of our little community is that quicksand does what WE want it to do, not real life ? after all, it's our fantasy, surely ?
The report is correct for the real thing (100% sand and water that presses the particles apart.
Still i know and experienced quite a number of both boggy and tidal places where the mud (not quicksand) eagerly can swallow a struggling victim and prevent it from plopping back up to the surface.
Thick peatbog ?
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Lintime Sinker wrote:
Thick peatbog ?
Check my other posts. I've written quite a lot about my experiences already.
Also my signature is there for a reason.
I'm already chindeep in this mudbog and every desperate attempt to move my stuck legs only drives me deeper in. The thick mud slowly swamps my waders and my arms have nothing to hold onto.
I'm feeling home.
I'm feeling home.
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