Do you float after u drown???

Question

need to know.its like a science question.some people float after they drown.but how?and why?

Answer 1

Normaly, if you're not obese, you sink when you drown, because water fills your lungs. If you have a high body fat content, you'll float, because fat floats.

You'll start floating when your body begins to decompose, because the decomposition process produces gases which reduce your body's density to less than water.

Answer 2

After drowning occurs it is no longer you. You are gone. All that's left is a corpse. Some people would hope to be floating up, not sinking down, but that's a different subject.

Answer 3

It is Archimedis law of boyoyancy (floating object). If the you immerse some thing in water and it displace water more than its body weight than it will float on water.

Similarly when body is drowned the water goes inside lungs and intestines and it became heavy and displaced more water than its weight so it floats on water.

Answer 4

They will sink at first. Then the gas is produced in the body and in about 7 days it will float.

Answer 5

Unless you're below 30ft in depth, where water pressure negates the body's natural bouyancy, you should float. It also depends on how much water you swallow / inhale, but you'd need a lot of water in you to overcome your natural bouyancy.
It is also possible to drown without getting water in your lungs (when water passes over your head suddenly, the trachea tries in a reflex action, to seal itself against the water but ends up suffocating you.)

Answer 6

All those gases, products of decomposition, keep a body on the surface