Why does a huge ship does not sink in the water?

Question

Why does a huge ship does not sink in the water?

Answer 1

It will eventually sink (like the Titanic).  All the ballasts of the ship need to get replaced with WATER 100% instead of AIR then it will sink.  

Answer 2

good question!!iam curious to know the answer though..

Answer 3

The ships' design displaces water equally on all sides, much like pushing a bowl downward in a sink. Water pressure will not penetrate the hull enough to sink a ship.

Answer 4

In a word - displacment. The ships designers calculate the weight of the loaded ship and compare it to the weight of the water that will be displaced when the ship is placed in the water. The more water that is displaced, the higher the ship will float. (in theory, if you keep loading a ship, its weight will exceed the weight of the displaced water and it will sink) You can do the same thing at home. Weigh a full container of water then place a block of wood in the container, that should make the water overflow. Now weigh the container again (after removing the wood). Subtract the two weights - this will be the weight of the wood block. Actually, at home with non scientific instruments the weights won't be exact. Repeat the same exercise with a block of styrofoam and you will see that much less water is displaced and of course the weight of the styrofoam will be much less that the weight of the wood.

Answer 5

The ship is less dense than the water, therefore it floats.

Density can be defined as the mass per unit volume of a substance and water clearly has more mass per meter cubed than a ship does..

It's fairly basic Physics...

Answer 6

The simplest way to envisage this is to put an empty heavy glass bowl into a basin of water, and it will float even though the glass itself is denser than the water. It displaces a lot more water because of its shape, and it is the amount of water that is displaced that matters.  If you were to fill the bowl with water it would sink just as a steel hulled ship will sink if it filled with water (holed).  So it is to do with the volume of water displaced - if this volume weighs more than the object, it will float.

Answer 7

according to Archimedes Principle an object floats when it has displaced its weight in the medium in which it is floating. a large ship is hollow and big and easily displaces its weight in the ocean or fresh water.

Answer 8

i always wondered that.