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You can drown in quicksand.
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REFUTED
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Is it true that you can drown in quicksand?
No. Multiple sources state that humans cannot fully submerge or drown in quicksand, since bodies float and sink only to about waist depth. One modeling paper and a hunting narrative suggest drowning risk may be more significant in some cases.
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Maximal submergence in dense granular suspensions. (n.d.). iopscience.iop.org. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/ad2aa2/pdf
Evidence against · 3
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Quicksand. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksand
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The wilderness hunter. (n.d.). gutenberg.org. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77136
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Is quicksand deadly?. (2011). skeptics.stackexchange.com. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/3625/is-quicksand-deadly
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Humans Cannot Fully Sink in Quicksand? | Snopes.com. (n.d.). snopes.com. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/humans-quicksand-sink/
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