Archimedes Explains the Sinking of Ships In the third century B.C., Archimedes, the Greek mathematician, physicist and inventor discovered that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body. Another words, he recognized that for anything to float the density of the liquid must be greater than the density of the object. So, if you mix enough bubbles into a liquid so that you lower its density, an object floating on its surface would sink. In the laboratories, we can demonstrate what might be happening as bubbles bubble up from the floor of the ocean. That lighter water in that area might swallow ships. This could explain the Bermuda Triangle and the North Sea where ships have disapeared without explanation. Bemuda Triangle is an area in the Atlantic Ocean bounded by lines drawn between Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and a point west of Florida, in which a number of ships are alleged to have disappeared mysteriously especially since 1945. (end) © 2001 - Khorsheed.com - Nov 2001