You can get out using this technique, if you do it slowly and progressively. “This creates a space between the legs and the quicksand through which water can flow down to (loosen) the sand. “The way to do it is to wriggle your legs around,” Daniel Bonn, a physics professor at the University of Amsterdam told National Geographic. Although humans can get stuck in the sand because it liquefies fast, it is possible to escape. There is little available information on quicksand in Texas - where it is or how many deaths have been associated with the saturated sediment.īut research shows humans are typically not dense enough to get fully swallowed up by quicksand, which is a combination of fine sand, clay and salt water, according to National Geographic.
Escobedo's death was one of 114 to occur across the state in rivers and lakes in 2015. Officials found no evidence of foul play and on July 13, an autopsy ruled his cause of death to be drowning. “He had expired and fallen face-first over the sandy outcropping,” the report said, adding that his body was lodged in the quicksand from his feet to the bottom of his buttocks. The following day, Game Wardens Kevin Fagg and William Zappe searched the San Antonio River by boat and found Escobedo’s body lodged in quicksand, 350 yards upstream from the bridge where he parked his car. On July 10, three days after Escobedo went missing, a helicopter supplied by the Texas Department of Safety flew from the Highway 239 bridge to the U.S. True to his nature, the photographer is horrible at bogside manner - and then leaves Star to go back to the car for another lens Panic sets in as she sinks even deeper in the wet sand. She sinks slowly, gets stuck, and wonders if he is done with the pictures. There was no indication Escobedo had gone fishing or camping just by looking at his vehicle, according to the report, and it didn’t seem he like met someone and left with them, leaving his car behind. But Star, looking very nice is a bikini, steps into the quicksand anyways. Will Johnson, of the Karnes City Police Department, wrote in the incident report. I saw it 29 years ago, once, and all I remember is the faintly dreary vibes and the cast behaving in the usual eccentric, Altman-esque ways and the visual drabness and the Julianne Moore-Matthew. “He was known to access the river in the Falls City area, but it is possible he went swimming and did not return to his vehicle,” Lt. Sincere apologies to Larry Karaszewski, but I don’t have many fond memories of Robert Altman ‘s Short Cuts (’93). Inside, authorities found Escobedo's glasses and shoes that were confirmed to be his the next day.Įscobedo’s family told officials the 50-year-old often took to swimming alone in the river. Officials found a blue Mercury sedan parked on the east side of the Highway 239 bridge over the San Antonio River. On July 8, police received a call reporting a light blue car had been parked underneath the San Antonio River Bridge in Goliad County for several days, according to a Goliad County Sheriff’s Office incident report. As a parent myself, this is just a nightmare.Jose Rey Escobedo, 50, was reported missing July 7, 2015, around 10 a.m., two days after he picked up a prescription. "If they fight it, they just sink down more and more. But if you stand up straight and panic, you just sink-and heaven knows, we've all seen those movies. If caught in quicksand, he said, "The advice is to lie on one's back immediately and work one leg at a time until you are out. "They could have just stepped on it not knowing, or thinking it was very shallow water," Koster van Groos said. The sand then flows like water, and you sink. "Suddenly, the solidness of the soil you expect is not there any more, and when you try to get out, you lift one leg but move more weight to the other," Koster van Groos said. "It can look solid, but if you step on it, the disturbance can cause all these loosely packed grains to move, and it liquefies," he said. Saying he was only speculating, Koster van Groos said the boys could have walked across the area, thinking it was dry and firm, or that it contained only very shallow water on the surface.
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