Well today has been an experience

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

At Cleethorpes for the weekend decided to take the dog on a quiet beach we found.Walking along about 10 metres from the entrance and... I sunk.Apparently "quick mud" is a thing here and at least weekly the coastguards have to rescue people ive since found out.I was up to my thighs and couldn't move.Eventually dh and a good samaritan got me out! I then had to do a long walk back to the accommodation lathered in mud. there were no signs warning people at all.Wine has eased my trauma.

So it’s physically impossible to sink further than chest height, is that right?

I feel like a new fear has been unlocked now tbh.

Do people drown there? If they sink and no one is around, do they just stay and drown?

I heard a case years ago where the ?coastguard? were there but weren’t able to get the person out quickly enough so fitted breathing apparatus while they carried on digging or whatever they were doing.

This thread is bloody scary, isn't it!

It happens at Weston-super-Mare, Brean and Burnham on Sea too. The Severn Estuary has the second highest tidal range in the world.

I was blissfully under the impression quicksand was only a threat in kids' adventure books from a certain era and would never be an IRL problem until I lost a shoe to it on a walk in Suffolk. What's next? Pirates? Smugglers?

[ugh - quoted the OP. Sorry. Wine.)

I wonder if in areas where this is a thing they still show children those horrific safety videos we used to have to watch in the 80s?

I remember we learnt about the dangers of quicksand, railway lines, electricity pylons, building sites etc. I'm surprised we went anywhere.

Getting Artax and Atreyu from Neverending Story vibes

I certainly won't be making the same mistake again!

It's happened to me, different area though, had to walk back home in February with muck up to my knees and all up my back along a beach in February minus my shoes!

Swans!

Omg how hideous! That's so scary...

I'm that age where we watched awful films at school too. Philip the Pony, nearly drowning in the quicksand? Think his owner was a deaf boy, I was completely and utterly traumatised!

Can't stand UK beaches, will only consider the Med or the Caribbean! 😄

I once got knee deep on Blue Anchor beach further down the estuary. (It’s called ‘blue anchor’ for the colour of the mud anchors would be coated with, apparently)
Quicksand/mud is pretty common - we live in the northwest now, Arnside/silverdale are lovely but not for beaches!