Thread: Will My Bike Float?
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Old 11-02-20 | 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by CargoDane
To save the bike when the ferry sinks, I'd say "much longer than 10 seconds".
Originally Posted by aggiegrads
The human body is right near neutral buoyancy. I'd rather have something that has 5 pounds of buoyancy than 5 pounds of sinkable weight.
I don't think the idea was that the ferry sunk. More that the bike fell off.

When I had my sailboat, it didn't take very long to grab a pole to fish out hats, buckets or other stuff that all my lily-livered scabby sea bass crew let fall off. If it fell off near the bow, I could nab it as it came past the aft cockpit without having to stop or worse, come about. <grin>

Don't know why I care about buoyancy at all. If I'm diving, as in SCUBA diving, I'll either have a BC vest on me that will more than overcome the bike weight or I'll take a line with me.
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