From: Adam 

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

> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:13:50 +0300, "Antti Kurenniemi"
>  wrote in message
:
>
>
>>A ton of water would be 1 cubic meter. An olympic pool is 50 meters long and
>>what, maybe 20 wide and 2.5 deep in average, so that comes to 2500 cubic
>>meters / tons. Sounds about "ballpark" right.
>>
>>
>>Antti Kurenniemi
>>(heavy stuff)
>>
>>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>>news:dssqj1prdnuqflfvog0t3n0cmpued9casm{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>>3,000 tons is only "a bit more than an Olympic swimming
pool"?  3,000
>>>TONS?
>>>
>>>On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:03:41 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don
>>>Hills) wrote in message :
>>>
>>>
>>>>In article ,
>>>>Ellen K.  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>   ...      Canadian Iceberg Vodka Corporation expects
to "harvest"
>>>>>about 3,000 tons of ice in 2005.
>>>>
>>>>That's not a lot. (A bit more than an Olympic swimming pool.)
>>>>And as someone else pointed out, it'll likely be glacier or lake ice.
>>>>Canada has plenty of that.
>>>
>

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