From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

Well good for you, because the moment you realize that ships float on sheer
luck alone, you'll never want to go on a cruise again!


Antti Kurenniemi
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"Ellen K."  wrote in message
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>I confess that I have never pondered the question of how ships float,
> just accepted that they do.
>
> On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:35:10 +0100, Adam 
> wrote in message :
>
>>Ellen K. wrote:
>>
>>> I'm having a hard time imagining that one cubic meter of water weighs a
>>> ton, one cubic meter isn't very big.  Didn't the VW Beetle weigh about a
>>> ton?
>>>
>>
>>Just out of interest, how do you think ships flot?
>>
>>So imagine a 100,000 ton ship & it's water line & it's
draft....& thus
>>how much water it displaces in order to support all 100,000 tons
>>
>>
>>Adam

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