A solution to rising sea levels?

Question

If we took ALL the boats/ships/cruisers etc out of the ocean - would sea levels drop [due to the large amount of water these huge vessels displace] !?!?!?

Answer 1

No.  Look at this way-lets say we have 100,000 ships averaging  10,000 metric tons displacement each (tere aren't that many).

That is about 1 cubic kilometer of seawater.  Just last year--just in Antartica--about 200 cubic kilometers of ice melted and was added to the total water in the oceans.

So--no--removing ships would make no difference.

Answer 2

I would take all the rocks out instead.

Answer 3

Does anyone ever mention that a lot of this stuff thats happening is also an earth cycle?

Answer 4

what about digging under the oceans to make them deeper

Answer 5

I have been to Florida a number of times and I don't see any water covering the beaches.

Don't worry about it!  The latest I heard was the warming reached its peak in 1998 and is now going the other way.  Its all about cycles.

Answer 6

we better drink a little of sea water...lol

Answer 7

I was thinking if the ocean rose ten feet, we should just raise the land ten feet so it's the same.

Answer 8

Yes... but not to any measureable degree. About 1/20th the thickness of a human hair.

The amount of surface area (of water) on the Earth is 361,132,000 km² water (70.8 %) (wiki).  If you want sea levels to lower by 1 mm (MILLImeter), you'd have to remove the displacement of 361,132,000,000 cubic meters of water.  Thats the same as 95,400,981,121,732 gallons, which is roughly 12,753,256,222,465 cubic feet, or 816,208,398,237,760 Pounds.  Since big ships are measured in tonnage (2240lbs/ton), this is the equivalent of 364,378,749,213 tons of ship(s).  

ALL of the Supertankers in the world (http://supertankers.topcities.com/id295.... ) have a combined tonnage of 143,399,689.   The listed merchant tonnage (CIA factbook) is an additional 700,000,000 tons.  Double that amount and round off for good measure, and you get 1,700,000,000 tons.  Thats 0.466% of what you'd need to remove to lower the sea by only 1mm.  Or, if you want to look at it another way, removing them, as is, would lower the sea by .00466mm.  Saying this another way, 4.66 micrometers...   A human hair is 80 micrometers thick, by comparison.

Answer 9

Where would you put all the boats?

Answer 10

Maybe, but it would be an average drop of like half a nanometer or something insanely small.  Yes, the boats displaced a lot of water but compared to the trillions and trillions and trillions of gallons of water that is in the oceans, it would be negligible.

Answer 11

i don't really know.... i'm blonde....ehehe....,

Answer 12

Doing this would have a negligible effect on mean sea level.

Harleigh Kyson Jr.