Beach Tragedy: Woman Trapped in Quicksand Calls for Husband’s Help – ‘I Can’t Get Out!
During a leisurely walk along Popham Beach in Maine, Jamie Acord experienced a frightening incident where she suddenly sank into quicksand up to her hips. Acord recounted how she felt like she dropped into a manhole as the ground unexpectedly gave way beneath her. Although she frequently visited this beach, this occurrence was a shock to her, emphasizing that such incidents are not confined to Hollywood scenarios.
Reports from local news and the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry explained that Acord had stepped into supersaturated sand, which quickly filled back in after her husband helped pull her out. The department assured the public that while distressing, these situations are not life-threatening and are completely survivable.
In the aftermath, warning signs were to be installed at the beach. Sean Vaillancourt, managing the beach for the state Bureau of Parks and Land, advised maintaining calm and dispersing one’s weight to facilitate escaping the sand. He mentioned that quicksand on the beach usually does not get deeper than waist-level.
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By Jack Davis June 11, 2024 at 4:49pm
An idyllic walk on a Maine beach turned into a nightmare for a woman who walked into quicksand.
Jamie Acord said she and her husband were walking along Popham Beach when the ground gave way, according to WCSH.
“I just dropped like a rock. [My husband] said I was there, and then the next minute I wasn’t,” she said, the U.K.’s Daily Mail noted that she called out, “I can’t get out!”
“I couldn’t feel the ground with my feet,” she said. “I couldn’t push myself out.”
“Literally it was kind of like I just dropped into a manhole cover,” she said, according to People. “We’re walking along, just talking, and all of a sudden, I went into the sand.”
“It was kind of one of those moments where I didn’t know what to do. This is a new thing that’s never happened before. And I go to that beach all the time,” she said.
Quicksand doesn’t just happen in Hollywood. It happened on a Maine beach https://t.co/4QtyCIwYRo pic.twitter.com/7U5rhUlu8p
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) June 11, 2024
Falling in was bad enough, then came the weird part.
Have you ever seen quicksand?
“And as soon as he pulled me out, we turned around to look to see what had occurred because we just assumed I’d fallen in an actual hole, and there was nothing there. It looked just like the beach. It had filled itself right back in,” she said.
She said afterward that her clothes were covered in “wet, cement-like sand.”
The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry said Acord stepped into some supersaturated sand, WCSH reported.
“The sand is saturated with water,” department communications director Jim Britt said. “It’s even more unstable and very easy to find yourself sinking into it.”
Britt said no one will be swallowed whole, adding, “What is occurring is a 100-percent survivable scenario.”
Warning signs are going up, Sean Vaillancourt, who manages the beach for the state Bureau of Parks and Land, said, according to WFXV.
Vaillancourt said keeping calm helps if one falls into the sand.
“Just take your time and crawl out if you have to,” Vaillancourt said. “You can also lean forward or back in a floating position. The more you can disperse your weight over that, the more you can move freely.”
He said the quicksand is usually no more than waist deep.
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