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* Shows up in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', where it's used to kill both {{spoiler|Melina Frost}} and {{spoiler|Beth Vandelinder}}, one getting stuck in the sand long enough to be stabbed, the other being pulled in head first and drowned.
* [http://www.homestarrunner.com/answer14.html This] [[Homestar Runner]] cartoon involves Homestar making this type of overestimation, as applies to a sandbox crudely labeled "QUiCK SAnD". "If you have any vines or roots you can toss my way, I would be really, ''really'' still alive."
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== Real Life ==
* Interesting counterpoint: Water with a great deal of gas bubbling through it behaves suitably, in that a human would sink like a rock in it, and subsequently drown. This isn't encountered very often, however, which probably comes down to most writers [[Did Not Do the Research|not doing the research]]... the only example this contributor can come up with is a pool of this in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', where its dangers are carefully described by Vamp. Who then, seconds later, starts swimming through it with ease (He does have superpowers). This has been implicated in the loss of ships at sea, because of a subsidence or other event on the seabed which causes a dramatic release of gas. ''Mythbusters'' did this one, too, and in Code Geass R2 episode 7, the Black Knights take advantage of this.
** An example in real life which has taken many lives: The Niagra Falls massive amount of fallen water has the same effect of the aerated water of ''Metal Gear Solid 2'' and has resulted in many people drowning.
** Another take on this version appeared in an episode of ''[[SeaQuest DSV|Sea Quest DSV]]''. A French leisure submarine was lost and the SeaQuest was sent to investigate. Their findings? Small underwater caverns were filled with FRESH water, and they caved in like undersea potholes. Rather than aerated water causing the issue, the freshwater mixed with the sea water and desalinated it through dilution. This made the vessels too heavy to remain buoyant in the brackish zone, and they fell to the bottom of the freshwater pockets, unable to escape as their oxygen dwindled.
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