⏳ Woman Gets Swallowed Up By Quicksand

Our fears have been true all along!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation. Do you remember Brendan When we
were kids and you'd watch TV in the afternoon when
you came home from school, maybe it was Saturday morning,
but we were terrified of one thing and one thing only,
and it was this skipper. What are you doing in there?

(00:23):
They quick Sam?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Here?

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Can you reach me? No? I can't reach you. Gil again,
you know what's happening. Yeah, you're sinking.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Do shut thin, don't just stand there. I'll get some mines.
Stay where you are, Yeah, save me?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Here are you? On all those shows, whether it was
Gilligan's Island or any of those sort of things, all
you'd see would be a hat floating on the top
of the sand. You think they have been taken by.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Quicksand quick SAand was everywhere.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
And then as you become an adult, you think, oh.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Quicksand there's no quicksand.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well what about this. A New Zealand woman was walking
on the beach on her own, enjoying the view when
she began sinking into the sand. The sand became quicksand
she said, I was just going for a walk at
the beach all of a sudden, and then she posted
a picture of her legs completely covered in this white
sand with the caption I've just crawled out of quicksand,

(01:14):
so she said, I took two quick footsteps and then
I went down. And she was on her own, so
no one could haul her out. So what she did
was she lay on her stomach and rolled clawed her
way out of the sandy quagmire, which is apparently what
you have to do.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Was it wet sand or dry sand.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
When she set out? It was probably damp sand, but
it somehow the chemical reaction of that sand turned it
into quicksand. And there are certain areas that are prone
to it, obviously Gilligan's Island, but parts of New Zealand
and Australia all have quicksand. And it's very hard to
pull someone straight out of quicksand. It's almost impossible. So
what they say is you need to rotate your legs

(01:55):
in slow, small movements to reintroduce water into the equation,
and then once you've loosened it up, you slowly lift
your legs back up to the surface and kind of
swim or float along the surface to haul yourself out.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Lying on your back would be the way to go,
because you've got more mass.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Maybe maybe that's true. They say that you won't drown
in quicksand because once you get up to the top
of your legs you pretty much stop. But you can
be killed in the quicksand if there's a tide coming
in and you're stuck, or you're open to predators or
exposure hyperthermia. You even have hypothermia, I guess in these areas.

(02:36):
But this, if you can't escape from quicksand you're in trouble,
I just having a look. Then I just googled it
and it said you know the best way to get
out of quicksand it said keep your phone charge so
you can call for help. Well, thank you. When I'm
in the Amazon, I'll remember to keep my phone charge.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
About it enlisting an incompetent first mate, Well, Terry twing
hat if.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
This is alarming though, we thought finally, as adults, we
could put our fear of quicksand aside.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
But no, but no, Likeugy, there's nothing else in the
world that can scare us.