'I just dropped into the ground,' Jamie Acord recalled.
Jamie Acord said she was walking with her husband near the water on a Maine beach when she suddenly sank up to her hips and found herself trapped waist deep in sand.
"We were probably 10 feet from the sand dunes and I just dropped into the ground," Jamie Acord recalled to"I was right beside her and she dropped down, like a couple feet back," Patrick Acord said."I was just covered in mud and we turned around and looked back and there was no hole," Jamie Acord said.
In this June 26, 2007 file photo beachgoers enjoy the walk at low tide out to Fox Island off of Popham Beach State Park in Phippsburg, Maine.Experts say quicksand -- super saturated sand or sand that has become nearly liquified with water -- is common around the world."Anywhere you're adjacent to a water body, there's a chance you could potentially have it," explained Peter Slovinsky, a marine geologist with the Maine Geological Survey.
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