Next message: Bryan Genez: "Re: [world-cruising] the danger of semi submerged containers"
It's basic physics, people. Either it floats or it sinks. If a container
or log happens to be exactly neutral, then it will bob up and down with the
currents, but there's not much that's exactly neutral, including the
"thousands of containers" that are lost overboard every year. As someone
already observed, they sink. If they didn't sink, they'd wash ashore, and
you've never heard of one washing ashore, have you? Be honest!
For all you divers out there, did you ever go through a layer of stuff that
was floating at a given depth, then another layer of stuff that was deeper?
Think of it as the 1.1 specific gravity layer and the 1.2 specific gravity
layer. Of course you didn't, because no such layers exist. The column of
water on top of an object is exactly the same as the column below it, which
is why an item sinks in the first place.
It's basic physics.
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Best,
Bryan Genez
"Capella" V40-158
New Bern, NC
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