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u/zamsamzam 4h ago
I knew the fear of quicksand instilled in me from 80's television would come in handy some day!
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u/r_a_d_ 3h ago
this is not quicksand… it’s just shit floating on water
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u/HotelOscarWhiskey 3h ago
Ive always had a fear of floating shits too so...
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u/wcslater 3h ago
Why won't you flush dammit!
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u/I_Can_Barely_Move 3h ago
Who does number 2 work for?
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u/Happy-Estimate-7855 3h ago
You tell em, pal
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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 3h ago edited 3h ago
Tom Arnold was underutilized (in general in the industry), was great
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u/silvertonguedmute 3h ago
Same, but I definitely thought it would be a much more common occurrence. Like it would be something I would have to keep an open eye for while walking to the bus. I live in Norway. Everything here is a fucking mountain.
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u/pricingup 1h ago
I was born in 1997 Lithuania. The thought of dangerous quicksand is still deep inside my subconciousness.
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u/AlexandreFiset 13m ago
There is a short film called Fauve that doesn’t help with that fear. A good one too!
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u/calmandchili 4h ago
Wtf is this song has to do anything with the video
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u/imagonnahavefun 3h ago
Wtf are you doing unmuted? You should know better by now.
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u/_Permanent_Marker_ 3h ago
I find it hilarious that without communication we all just stopped unmuting videos.
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u/Klinicalyill 3h ago
To be fair to that guy, everything is muted by default for me but I unmuted momentarily hoping for an explanation because of the gesturing the first guy was making. Can confirm unnecessary music and zero explanation.
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u/Covid19-Pro-Max 3h ago
Also the advice to be careful when swimming would also not help you at all against this hazard
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u/MikeTony713 3h ago
Yeah, I hate this song
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u/HangryBeard 4h ago
What makes it deadly? It looks scary, but couldn't you just swim up? It's not like the surface is a hard layer. You should be able to tell which way up is from boyancy and any light breaking through. As long as you move inward toward land above sea level I don't understand what's so dangerous.
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u/StagnantSweater21 3h ago
The same as sea foam, the density. You can rise to the top of the water, but you can’t rise to the top of whatever is floating on top. You’re too heavy. So you hit the top of the water, but still can’t get air because you can’t float on the less dense stuff
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u/xXbachkXx 3h ago
The layer doesnt look thicker than a head and seems easy to break, if you put your arms up you should be able to move it away and create a hole, if the camera stick was able to
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u/Comfortable-Yak-6599 3h ago
You'll float even on water mixed with sand because you full of the same stuff plus air in your lungs.
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u/StagnantSweater21 3h ago
Your body is… full of sand??
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u/welcomefinside 2h ago
Sshhhh he's a silicon-based lifeform that's been sent from the 40 Eridani system to spy on us.
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u/mekwall 2h ago edited 2h ago
If a kayak will float. So will I.
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u/StagnantSweater21 2h ago
What
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u/mekwall 2h ago
Did you watch the video? There's a kayak.
Edit: Canoe -> Kayak
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u/StagnantSweater21 2h ago
Yeah but do you understand anything about physics?
Three people can sit on that and float, 3 people could NOT sit on you and float.
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u/mekwall 2h ago edited 1h ago
Yes, but you clearly doesn't. A kayak can float with three people in it, although whether that's stable or even within its rated capacity depends on the kayak. But that's beside the point.
Buoyancy isn't determined by how much additional weight an object can carry. A floating object displaces enough fluid for the buoyant force to balance its weight. A kayak carrying three people therefore has to displace enough water to support the combined weight of the kayak and those three people. My body only has to displace enough water to support me.
And that's exactly why I mentioned the kayak in the video. It isn't sitting on some magically solid surface. Its hull pushes through the floating layer and displaces the water underneath it. I don't need the floating layer itself to support me either - I need to get through it and float in the water below.
Now, if your argument is that the floating layer is thick enough that I could be buoyant in the water while my mouth is still below the top of that layer, that's at least a physically coherent argument.
Edit: And about your first comment, about not being able to rise through the less-dense material above it. That's not how this works either. I don't need to float on the upper layer. The buoyant force comes mainly from the water I'm displacing underneath it, and that force can push my body through a thin, less-dense layer above the water.
If that layer were thick enough that my equilibrium position left my mouth buried in it, or if it physically trapped or entangled me, then yes, I'd have a problem. But that's a question of the layer's thickness and physical properties, not whether I'm "too heavy to float on it."
Edit: isn't -> doesn't
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u/Maleficent_Button_58 1h ago
I'm appreciating you right now. All I could think reading some of the previous comments was "if weight and density were the only deciding factors in floating, aircraft carriers wouldn't work" lol.
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u/mekwall 1h ago
Haha, thanks I guess. Although technically density still gets the last laugh. An aircraft carrier floats because the whole thing, giant steel hull plus all that enclosed air, has a low enough average density to displace its own weight in water.
Otherwise we'd have some very expensive artificial reefs.
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u/Maleficent_Button_58 1h ago
I'm not saying average density doesn't factor, just that it's not alone lol. They displace so much water, and it's nice to see that mentioned as important. Since it is.
I think one of the coolest things I remember from being on one was getting to fuss with the air and water tight doors. Neat just how well issues can be contained to keep the ship going.
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u/NOLA-JAZZ 3h ago
It’s the panic that kills you!
Old movies put all of the sucking you down nonsense into your brain.
Just swim smoothly and carefully and you should be able to get out by all the experts of modern day that don’t have a Warner Brothers movie contract13
u/Devium44 3h ago
It could be deadly if you are walking and don’t expect to be submerged in water. Startled panic makes people do irrational things.
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u/mellamoreddit 45m ago
When you are under, if there is nothing breaking the surface, you would not be able to see light so it might be hard to know which way to swim. If there is some light, you would let out some air and see the direction the bubbles go and follow it.
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u/MothChasingFlame 17m ago
Marshland can be dangerous like this. It looks like land, but you slip right through. It's hard to orient yourself. Up and down get confused because it's dark and brackish. Sometimes there's a light current underneath that will push you as well. Very easy to die in those conditions, especially given most can only hold their breath for about a minute, and that's without panicking and moving (we can hold for longer, but it takes practice.)
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u/Orion-the-mediocre 3h ago
"be careful when swimming in the sea, it looks like land" have these people ever seen water before
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u/PJA0307 3h ago
I always thought that quicksand was gonna be a much bigger problem than it turned out to be. Because if you watch cartoons, quicksand is like the third biggest thing you have to worry about in adult life, behind real sticks of dynamite and giant anvils falling on you from the sky.
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u/Weird_Albatross_9659 3h ago
The pure trash of the text and music on this video should be grounds for removal and a ban
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u/Guardiancomplex 2h ago
What the fuck is the purpose of the music here?
We make the worst content wtf.
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u/MrKaon 2h ago
This is a salt lake in Iran (Lake Urmia, اورمیه) , similar to the Dead Sea in Asia.
Because of drought and the mismanagement of rivers and water resources, the water level has dropped dramatically.
Being salty and having a much higher density than a normal swimming pool, it makes it practically impossible to drown.
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u/elle_crells 2h ago
Ahh thanks for saying where it is, there is a good short film called "Where we used to swim" about it.
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u/UnoriginalJ0k3r 3h ago
Why did I fill with fear when he put the camera under?
I don’t like that.
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u/Terrible-Time-Travel 1h ago
I think I saw a video like this where it was all little bits of pumice floating in the ocean.
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u/lilsnatchsniffz 56m ago
I so desperately wish I could go back to the time when this was the most played song, things have really decayed since then.
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u/Guisasse 48m ago
How hard would it be to emerge from underwater? With good technique, like using your arms to part the mud at the same time you swim upwards?
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u/me_again_no_I 26m ago
Quicksand and people jumping out of cars to ask me if I wanted drugs where my major fears growing up
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u/lesschalkmoresighs 3h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/FjDgPslbmtEJy
Hey, thanks for triggering childhood trauma.
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u/NOLA-JAZZ 3h ago
Grow up…You’re an adult now
Think like one and stop wallowing in the quicksand of your youth…Ya see what I did there!! 😀
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u/Jijimuge8 3h ago
Stupid post, it’s just water. You naturally rise to the surface regardless.
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u/StagnantSweater21 3h ago
Not if it’s anything like sea foam. A thin layer of something less dense than water, so you can’t float on t and when you rise to the top of the water, you’re still trapped under a layer of whatever this is and can’t breathe
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