What is done to a Ship which is too lightly loaded?
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It rides too high in the water. Since this is physics, remember that the ship displaces only as much water as would be equal to its weight, so the less it weighs, the less water it displaces, i.e. the higher it rides.  This can lead to all kinds of problems, including poor steering, unstable rolling, heaving, etc.  That is why ships take on ballast when they don't have sufficient cargo.  Ship loading is a highly developed specialty.
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Because it is against the LAW. The load could fall damaging property, hurting OR killing someone.
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Archimedes said: When an object is submerged in water, there is a buoyant force upwards on it that is equivalent to the weight of the water displaced. \n\nSo if you have a heavy object underwater, and it is displacing water, its net weight will be less than when it is in air, displacing air, which is much lighter, so has a much smaller buoyant effect.
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IT HIT AN ICEBERG! It was the biggest ship ever of its time. There weren't enough lifeboats. Lots of people died making it. It was the most expensive ship in the world. the captain died with his ship. The people who evacuated the boat came up with the idea of women and children first. Erm...I don't know much more about it but there you go anyway :P
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You could ram the iceberg head on. If you do that, then the ship wouldn't sink, because the water would only get in the first, or maybe second watertight compartment, rather than five compartments like it did happen.
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they say it's not the size of the ship,but the motion of the ocean. But a row boat in the middle of the pacific is quite different than a freighter in a small pond. the row boat can get lost real easy while the frieghter can't even move. you just have to hope the two parts are of a compatable size,then you get the most wonderful kind of friction. But for me tighter is always better.
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Archimedes Principle.  The bouyant force pushing up on an object in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object.  So as long as the ship displaces more than its weight in water, it will float.  This is why ships made of steel and other dense materials tend to be very big and hollow.
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Make sure one of you isn't sitting in the back of the boat...you may not have enough horse to get him up. Move the person to the front deck and see if its different. Weight position is key in underpowered boats...used to have the same problem with my 14ft starcraft boat with a 20 hp engine...too much weight in the back is a killer. good luck!
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Call SUPSHIP at Newport Shipyard.  I know it is a tamper shaft but each one is different size anymore.  Better yet call O5H at NAVSEA DC.  \n\nGod Bless You and The Southern People.
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A ship can float on water because the desity of the ship is less than that of the water arround it.  When I speak of the Density, I speak of the ship as a whole.  The materials can be much more dense than water including steel or even Concrete.  What matters is what is in the ship.  If there is mostly air or something light in the ship, the average desity of the ship is very low and the ship will float high in the water.  If there is a lot of heavy cargo, the ship will float low in the water, unless too much cargo is loaded that is too heavy, then the ship could actually sink.\nWhen the ship is sitting on the water, it is displacing a certain amount of water.  The surrounding water then places pressure upon the ship pushing inward and upward.  The ship, not weighing as much as the water that is displaced is held up by this pressure.  If the wieght of the ship becomes more than what is displaced, then the ship will sink.
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sinks deeper.  The ship is displacing the water, not the ping pong balls.  Add ANYTHING to the ship and it will sink deeper, not rise.\n\nPS: Thumbs nose at B-redsoxer.
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Air pressure.  It actually implodes not explodes.  There is no airpressure in the cargo holds at that height.  The key being that it was sealed.  Watch for shampoo bottles or anything like that.  I had a suitcase full of shampoo. :-(
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Two cubic meters is not as big as the ones used for loading/unloading ships, but have you tried some stevedoring companies or grain handlers?\n\nTry the web under "bulk cargo handling"
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Mu,\n\ni.e. The question is incomplete, part of the ship will be above water, part below, depending on the exact nature of the ship and the position of the ladder a differing amount of steps will be visible when it is floating.
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It's an empty metallic cylinder to get samples of water (from the sea). The cylinder is lowered on the water open. When it is at the desired depth, a "messenger" is droped from the ship down the cable. When the messenger impacts the bottle it releases a mechanism that closes the bottle with a sample of water inside.
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The problem is not the weight of the water, it's the drag of the fluid. Unless you can find some magic way to eliminate the drag in a fluid like water which is so much more than that of a gas, you will be stuck with lower speeds. Even if you had some "magic" bubble around the sub, you would still need to displace the liquid to move the bubble.
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The bracelets I found to be the best.  Using medication makes it difficult as it is best not to drink alcohol with it.  The stabilizers are so good on the ships nowadays that you can hardly determine that the ship is moving.  If you did start to feel strange, believe it or not, the best thing to do is to eat, especially crackers and dry foods.  One waiter had me put a LOT of salt on a slice of lemon and suck it.  Believe me, NOTHING was going to come up after that.  Another trick is not to think about it and have a great time.