Woman on beach stroll with husband gets swallowed by quicksand

Jamie Acord and her husband were walking on the beach at Popham Beach State Park when she sunk to her hips in quicksand (Pictures: AP)

A woman was enjoying a walk on the beach with her husband when it became a scene that seemed out of a movie – and not a romance, but rather one of horror.

Jamie Acord was strolling at the edge of the water at Popham Beach State Park in Phippsburg, Maine, when she sunk to the hips in just a second.

‘I can’t get out!’ Acrod shouted to her husband.

Her husband quickly pulled her out of the sand, which filled itself in instantly.

The couple were left relieved, yet baffled.

‘I couldn’t feel the bottom,’ said Acord. ‘I couldn’t find my footing.’

They found out it was quicksand – but not the kind of quicksand in the movies.

In real life, quicksand is called supersaturated sand and people who fall into it do not sink but rather stay afloat. That allows them to maneuver their way out of the trap, according to Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry spokesman Jim Britt.

‘People hear the word quicksand they think jungle movie,’ he said. ‘The reality with this supersaturated sand is you’re not going to go under.’

Acord shared her story on social media on Saturday, explaining that she was collecting trash and had her hands full when the quicksand got her.

She added that everything happened to rapidly that she did not have time to be afraid, but that someone alone or ‘a kid would be scared’.

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