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How can submarines float and sink?

Anonymous

∙ 13y ago

Updated: 12/11/2022

Submarines change their depth by use of ballast tanks. To dive, they open their tanks so that they become filled with water. They also angle their dive planes. To surface, they pump the water out of their tanks and fill them with pressurised air.

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∙ 13y ago

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