Little did they know that underneath the mud pit was dangerous quicksand. "My shoe got stick and I pulled it out," said Andrew Hummel. "By that time, Katie and Carl were sinking." "I couldn't get ...

Just like firefighters, Bryant says he too had to rescue something from the muddy pit once. "Our dog got stuck in it one day. It's like a gray quicksand, mud quicksand," he said. Neighbors say the ...

A new map has revealed where quicksand can be found in the US after a woman walking along a beach in Maine nearly lost her life in a liquified pit ... like mud rather than sand with a rippled ...

“We respond with as much passion and vigor as we can.” The mud flats are unique yet similar to quicksand in the way the surface appears to be solid. When the tide comes in, the silt gets wet ...

A 20-year-old man from Illinois died after getting stuck in quicksand-like silt in an Alaska ... was walking on the mud flats at the treacherous Turnagain Arm — a 48-mile-long estuary carved ...

A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in the Alaska estuary of Turnagain Arm became submerged up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before ...

“He was approximately 50 to 100 feet off the shore, known locally as the mud flats. The glacial silt in place — combined with the water and the atmosphere — can create a quicksand-like ...

After water subsides, the thick mud sediment left behind forms deep pits which may catch unsuspecting people who wander into the muddy traps. Lambinon said a person caught in quicksand, sinking mud, ...

Recently, this sticky sludge pit ... quicksand without losing her — or ourselves?” Using a discarded piece of carpet nearby, the team made a makeshift raft and carefully navigated across the mud.

SMITHTOWN, N.Y. (WCBS/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A man found himself in a scary situation when he sunk up to his waist in quicksand-like mud while walking his dog, prompting a police rescue.