How does a ship so heavy float on water?
Steel Bowls Float
How does a ship so heavy float on water?
A massive steel ship weighs as much as thousands of elephants. Drop a steel marble in your bathtub and it sinks like a rock. So how does something so incredibly heavy float?
The secret is shape. That steel marble is solid metal all the way through — no room for anything but heavy steel. But the ship? It's hollow inside, like a giant metal bowl. Most of what you see is actually empty space filled with air.
