Talk:Anime/@comment-203.217.72.157-20150123142656/@comment-26009184-20150125024729

Relating to damage and sinking

As a generalization, ships in real life sink when they take on too much water. This raises the issue that some of the shipgirls don't have sections of them which can actually take on water, even if they take damage. In the anime, Fubuki also exhibits the ability to float on top of water, even if she falls on her side, or her head, or pretty much any other part of her body. So evidently the shipgirls don't sink under regular conditions.

In the anime there have only been two times when a shipgirl sinks in water. One is Kisaragi's scene and the other is the bath scene, where everyone is naked. When shipgirls are damaged they take damage to their clothes.

I therefore conclude that the shipgirls' clothes are primarily what make them float.　(｀・ω・´)ｷﾘｯ

Although I should really end it there, another option could be that the shipgirls themselves choose to float. Kisaragi appears to be losing her consciousness as she sinks. Mutsuki is concerned Fubuki will be overworked to the point where she sinks, possibly due to losing consciousness.

and of course everything i say means nothing to the writers who can do whatever they want and that makes me completely wrong so sad