If you’re alone and find yourself in quicksand, the best thing is simply to slowly swim to safety. Try to bob up on your back so as much of your body as possible is near to the surface of the pool, then move toward the nearest edge — it shouldn’t be more than a dozen or so feet away. Try not to splash around a lot, breaking surface tension and creating small vacuums in the water and reducing buoyancy. Preventing drowning in quicksand is not that different from doing so in in water; keep calm, and you’ll float to safety easily enough.
Posted on: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 19:03:03 +0000
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