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  2. Talk:Louis Dega - Wikipedia

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    The book describes Henri Charriere "making a break" in 1941 with a man named Sylvain, who is said to have died in quicksand but a few tens of feet from papillon only moments after landing ashore. Correct, so I deleted "He died in quicksand while trying to escape with Charriere in 1941."

  3. Quicksand - Wikipedia

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    A group of hikers encountering quicksand on the banks of the Paria River, Utah Quicksand warning sign near Lower King Bridge, Western Australia. Quicksand is a shear thinning non-Newtonian fluid: when undisturbed, it often appears to be solid ("gel" form), but a less than 1% change in the stress on the quicksand will cause a sudden decrease in its viscosity ("sol" form).

  4. List of film and television accidents - Wikipedia

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    He died instantly upon impact of multiple injuries, and The Late, Late Breakfast Show was cancelled two days later. [223] Million Dollar Mystery (1987). Stuntman Dar Robinson died in a motorcycle accident after a dangerous stunt had been filmed and the medics on the set had been dismissed. Dar was going around a curve when his motorcycle ...

  5. Quicksand doesn't just happen in Hollywood. It happened on a ...

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    It turns out that quicksand, known as supersaturated sand, is a real thing around the world, even in Maine, far from the jungle locations where Hollywood has used it to add drama by ensnaring actors.

  6. We need to talk about 'Quicksand's truly wild ending - AOL

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    Quicksand has been a silent, gloopy threat in movies for decades now. It claims a desert victim in Lawrence of Arabia, it almost sucks Alan (Robin Williams) down through the floorboards in Jumanji ...

  7. Talk:Quicksand - Wikipedia

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    The claim that quicksand doesn't kill is nonsense - It is rare for someone to literally drown in quicksand, in the way seen in movies, but quicksand will tend to hold a victim hard and fast - which is a problem somewhere like Morecambe because quicksand is most active on coastal estuaries where rivers flow into the sea.

  8. The Gray Man (ghost) - Wikipedia

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    Legend holds that the Gray Man is the ghost of a young man traveling from Charleston to see his fiancée in 1822. [3] On the way, he and his horse were caught in quicksand-like pluff mud in the marshes before Pawley's Island, and died.

  9. List of drowning victims - Wikipedia

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    He may have died from a heart attack rather than by drowning. [21] Michel Tamarati (born 1858), a Georgian Catholic priest and historian, died while trying to rescue a drowning man in a stormy sea near Santa Marinella, Italy, on September 16, 1911. [22] John Jacob Astor IV (born 1864) drowned in the Titanic disaster in 1912. [23]