Technically speaking, a ship manages to stay afloat only until it has a lower density than the water it is sailing upon. As soon as it reaches a higher density or an equal density, the ship starts submerging rapidly until it is totally sunken to the depths of the ocean. It wouldn’t be wrong to term a ship as one of the greatest marvels of science keeping in view the gigantic sizes and the variety of their uses today. We have ships today that are bigger than a blue whale and weigh more than a dozen of them, yet they are able to stay afloat and travel through the massive oceans with ease.

Some of the biggest ships today are the transport ships which are capable to carry immense loads and sail from one country to another without a problem. But there is only one problem that keeps the ship owners on tethers and that is the holes that emerge in the wildest possible places. Emergence of holes cannot be prevented completely but they can b ... Read more »