Daniel Bonn Quotes

If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to pull your foot out.

- Daniel Bonn

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Everybody thinks, thanks to Hollywood, that you can drown in quicksand. Basically if you do a simple buoyancy calculation, the Archimedes force, it is immediately evident that you can't drown completely. - Daniel Bonn

If you move into the quicksand, this loose packing will collapse. We then have densely packed sand at the bottom, and water floating on top of it. It's the difficulty of getting water into this very densely packed sand that makes it difficult for you to pull your foot out. - Daniel Bonn

You have to introduce water into the sand. And the easiest way to do that is to make it trickle along your leg into the quicksand, by making a circular motion with your leg. - Daniel Bonn