I got into some quicksand on the Weeki Wachee River is Florida. A canoe with a young family aboard flipped and we were helping gather their belongs. One of there bags got caught in a fallen tree at a sharp bend in the river. I jumped out of my kayak to retrieve the bag when I landed in the quicksand that was being roiled by the current against the bank. I immediately went up to my waist. Fortunately, I had my kayak and the fallen tree to hold onto. I ended up having to let my kayak go, hold on to the tree with one arm and work my legs out with the other hand. I was able to climb along the fallen tree back to the bank. I was with several other people who retrieved the kayak, but if I had been by myself without the tree to hold onto, I don't know what would have happened.