Quicksands

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Quicksands
     found only in Acts 27:17, the rendering of the Greek Syrtis. On
     the north coast of Africa were two localities dangerous to
     sailors, called the Greater and Lesser Syrtis. The former of
     these is probably here meant. It lies between Tripoli and Barca,
     and near Cyrene. The Lesser Syrtis lay farther to the west.