People who are immediately dead float, and this is all depending on body type and boyancy. bodies will sink, inevitably. In the olden days, and even today, small explosions are let off under water to make dead bodies float. (the old timers used canon fire) This disruption would cause dead bodies to float upward as the watter is immediately more deance than tissue, and the water is dispersed or knocked out of the tissue momentarily. But yes, bodies usually float for few hours first. I would quote something outta wiki, but I think tom Sawyer is a more reputable sourceOriginally Posted by Skyblade
Dead people don't sink, they float. You have heard of the "dead man's float", haven't you? A body can lie facedown in water, floating, for an incredible length of time. With living people, there is no real limit to how long they can stay afloat this way, bringing their head up to breathe, as long as they don't weaken too much from thirst or hunger. A dead body has the advantage of not having to come up for air. Of course, decomposition, fishies chomping on it, water composition, water temperature, and many other factors will keep the body from floating forever. It's hard to find a body of someone who has drowned because of course the body can't control where it is going and will drift out to sea, and will decompose enough to lose its natural bouency in short order, but a freshly dead body will certainly float. The lake that Cloud lowered Aeris into simply must not have been pure water, but a mixture of water and something else that lowered the density of the lake....what? Why would being dead affect whether you would float or sink? The laws of gravity don't suddenly rewrite themselves just because somebody is no longer living. Why do you think the bodies of people who drown are rarely recovered? They sink.
Also, VIII. By a long, LONG way.
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