To understand what it can and can't do, it's important to know just what quicksand actually is - just a bunch of ordinary sand that becomes saturated with water. If quicksand doesn't haunt our collective media-induced nightmares with the frequency that it once did, one reason may be scientists' and outdoors experts repeated debunking of the menace as depicted on the big and small screens. ![]() But since then, the shock value of quicksand seems to have worn off, and it's pretty much vanished from popular culture - except for a recent humorous appearance in a Geico commercial, where the protagonist fruitlessly implores a house cat to save him from being smothered. Mark Williamson/Getty Imagesīack in the 1950s and 1960s, TV and movie screenwriters desperate to finish a script would fall back upon a convenient, if hackneyed, plot twist: A character steps into a pit of quicksand, requiring a dramatic rescue to keep them from being sucked under. ![]() ![]() Contrary to the popular image of quicksand occurring in the desert, it's more common near streams, marshes and on the beach.
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