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Message # 69253.1.1.2 Subject: Re:Here we go again.....! Date: Sun 15/01/17 01:54:35 GMT Name: AnthonyX Email: anthonyx@jowc.net |
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"the clothes themselves are lighter than water (when put into water on their own, they float)" - I don't think that is strictly true, at least not always.
Many materials used in the manufacture of clothing are less dense than water, so yes, articles of clothing made from them will float on water.
Some materials are more dense than water, so such clothing will sink. BUT, the density is almost always so close to that of water that in order to sink, there must be no trapped air and enough time for it to settle.
Even if you are wearing something dense enough to sink, it's unlikely to drag you down with it, or even have a noticeable weight in water - its effective weight will be so small that it will be your least concern.
Whatever you are wearing will almost always have some amount of trapped air which will aid bouyancy no matter what it's made of.
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By jollywetfellow - Fri 13/01/17 20:52:32 GMT Wet clothes feel heavy on land, because the water in them is heavier than the air around them. But when the clothes (and their wearer) are in the water, the water in the clothes is the same weight as the water around the clothes. Since the clothes themselves are lighter than water (when put into water on their own, they float) the clothes-plus-water combination is actually lighter than the water around them. The heavier water underneath them therefore tends to push the lighter clothes upwards; when you're in the water, clothes help you float (though only very slightly, since they're a very small proportion of your total weight), they don't weigh you down.
The caption to this Flickr pic shows what I mean. https://www.flickr.com/photos/slow_life_symposium/14142533739/in/dateposted/ This is a professional western swimming instructor, who normally swims in a western-style swimsuit, who is teaching Muslim women to swim. She wants to find out what it is like for her pupils, who are swimming in robes, trousers and headdress in approved Muslim fashion, so she borrows a set of robes to try swimming in them for herself. Notice that she does NOT mention any problem with the clothes being "heavy"; the headdress was clearly the main problem, the "main difficulty" associated with the other clothes was just "restriction when kicking". |
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By Anonymous - Fri 13/01/17 09:41:39 GMT It is not all heavy to swim with clothes ..... |
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By Wetlooker2 - Thu 12/01/17 14:56:28 GMT Find on the swedish radio a short recording about about swimming with clothes in the swedish swimschool. Today you now will swim with clothes, today you will learn to float with your clothes on to save energy and heat.
But about wet clothes, i think it very good to learn hows the feel to have wet clothes on, how heavy it is to swim with it, but that is not that way they work today.
One day we will forgot how its feel to swim clothed, many places they not use clothes overall.
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