it is said that when someone tries hard to escape quicksand, they will sink deeper into it. how is that so? how does quicksand work?
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This also happens with grain and is an important safety issue that kills people every year. When you try to stand up out of it, the weight you put on one foot will never be enough to free your other foot, but it IS enough to make you sink in further. So eventually you just sink in too far to ever hope to escape by yourself. You would think that you can breathe “through” the grain, but that’s not what kills you— the weight of the grain will press your chest until you can’t inhale. Every exhale creates a place for grain to fall into and increases the effort required for the next breathe. Suffocating is the easy way out or maybe there’s an auger running at the bottom that makes it quick…
The amount of effort required to free you increases shockingly fast over just a few feet of depth— if you just wrapped a rope around someone buried chest deep and pulled you would likely just tear them apart.
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