Water as weight rather than lead?

[H2Andy]

and boy is the defense tired after reading dweeb's explanation...

 

[caymaniac]

You could also use tritium, but that's much less practical and the government will want to regulate you.

The government is already regulating me enough, my taxes, for an example are regulating my funds that I would use for dive trips.
Therefore please do NOT vote for a dem. they want to raise taxes, and I SICK of paying and paying, are you cognizant that you really don't own your property, if you quit paying taxes they
(the gov't) will take it from you and in fact this is a RANT but.......... I fell better!! :dazzler1:

Caymaniac

 

[fmw625]

A gallon container of water (like a milk jug) approx 8 lbs. displaces approx 8 lbs of water when submerged therefore it is neutral in bouyancy when submerged. Enough said.

 

[alemaozinho]

the question:

can you use water as weight, instead of lead weight?

For example, say that you take containers of water instead of lead. Yes, water weights six pounds per gallon, so you would have to take two gallons of water to equal 12 pounds, but...

Say you tie two milk gallons full of water to your waist...

Wouldn’t it be the same as wearing lead weights?

We were having this discussion, and someone was saying that wouldn’t work, because the water would “float on water."

is this correct?

you could use Titanium weights,they,re lighter than led.

 

[BIGSAGE136]

Truly amazing. This many posts!...HMMMM water....lead....lead....water. Who'd of thought?

 

[cmcarver]

Witches, ducks and wood float.
To determine if an object will be useful as ballast, it must be heavier than a duck.
Get a really big balance scale. Put a witch or a duck on one side and your ballast on the other side.

Yes but you must cut down the largest tree in the forest with..... a Herring

 

[ShakaZulu]

So, explain to me again how a submarine works then????

 

[H2Andy]

So, explain to me again how a submarine works then????

ok... first, you take this steel tube and seal it
(of course, you leave holes for people to get in and out,
but you put doors on these, pretty good doors too, otherwise
they'll leak and your stuff gets wet)

then, you drill a hole on the tube and, voila, the thing
starts to sink.

when you want to stop sinking, you plug the hole.

now, here's the tricky part:

if you want to go up, now you have to get rid of all that
water you took in, so you basically heat the submarine until
the water turns to steam, and you start to rise again!

you can use the steam to run a steam engine, which propells
the whole thing. and whatever surplus steam you have,
you store in a special steam vat for the next time you need
to move.

hope this helps.

 

[cornfed]

So, explain to me again how a submarine works then????

It uses a ss backplate and took a DIR-F class.

 

[ShakaZulu]

I was on a boat trip to Los Coronados Island last week, and saw a US Nuclear Sub, didn't look DIR to me. What would make the submarine DIR??? (Shaka runs and hides....)

http://www.lagunashorediving.com/gallery/loscoronados/scaled100_0003_001