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The boat will ride higher in the water until a person enters it. The boat sinks into the water "displacing" more water. It was Archimedes who first realised that a thing "immersed" in water will float if it can displace a greater weight of water than the weight of the thing. Otherwise it sinks.
Even when a thing has sunk it has still displaced an amount of water equal to its volume, and the thing loses the same amount of weight as the water which it has displaced.
I have seen workmen using this idea when moving large boulders in a river.
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What should you do if your boat gets swamped far from shore?
If you can bail it out. If you have a working radio, call for help. Finally, if you can stay with and preferably on the boat as the boat will make a bigger target for rescuers to see.
Can you be sued if your husband gets in an accident in his boat if his boat is registered in only his name and he owned it before you met him?
You personally cannot be sued, but the person may decide to claim on both of you, since you are in a marriage.
Why do you need boat insurance?
In case your boat gets damaged so you pay less.
What if your boat gets swamped What should you do?
Bail it.
What is the movie with the tiger on the boat with the boy?
The movie with a tiger on a boat with a boy is The Life Of Pi. The boat sinks and the boy gets on the life boat with the tiger.
Why is it easier to hold someone in the water?
Because of buoyancy. just on top. try holding them under the water, it gets harder
In terms of buoyancy how does a life jacket save your life?
A life jacket is also known as a floatation or buoyancy aid - it acts to increase your buoyancy. So what do we mean by this? Well, buoyancy can be described simply as how easily an object will float in a fluid (or gas), where the more buoyant the object the better it will float. Buoyancy is related to the density of an object which is in turn related to the amount of mass a given object has relative to it's volume. As the density of an object gets larger compared to the density of the fluid it is floating in, its buoyancy will decrease and it will become less able to float. As the density of the object becomes larger than the density of the fluid it is floating in, it will sink. Now that we understand buoyancy, we can explain how a life jacket works. A life jacket is mainly filled with gas which has a very low mass. As such when worn by a person, it acts to significantly increase their volume for only a very small increase in their mass. This means that they have a lower density than normal which increases their buoyancy and helps them to float.
If a man falls off a boat by an island no animals no things to make a raft or a boat he got out how did he?
the man gets back on his boat
How does the speed effect the speed of the sail boat?
The closer to the maximum speed the boat gets the harder it is to increase the speed.
How does object volume affect buoyancy?
If the mass stays the same, then when an object gets larger, its density decreases. The larger density=the more bouyancy
What do you do if your boat gets swamped from shore?
If you can bail it out. If you have a working radio, call for help. Finally, if you can stay with and preferably on the boat as the boat will make a bigger target for rescuers to see.
Four people on one side of the river need to cross the river in a boat that can carry a max of 180 pounds and the weights are 80 100 150 and 170 and how they get to the other side?
the two who weigh 100 both get in the boat. they sail across one gets out on the other bank. the other comes back. the one who weighs 160 gets in the boat and sails across alone and gets out then the person who weighs 100 gets in and sails back across. the other person gets in and they both sail accross together again.
