What was it with quicksand in tv and movies when I was a kid? I have so many memories of characters in various shows from Gilligan’s Island to Fantasy Island getting caught and meeting their untimely demise in that sinister goop. Or what about those westerns my uncle used to watch every Thanksgiving when we were at his house? At some point someone was going to get trapped in an unforgiving patch of quicksand leaving nothing behind but a lonely cowboy hat as proof that he had