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WATER
TEMPERATURE
DAYS TO
SURFACE
40 degrees 14-20 days
50 degrees 10-14 days
60 degrees 7-10 days
70 degrees 3-7 days
80 degrees 1-2 days
http://www.twinquarries.com/nurri/body_float_info.pdf
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThere are many variables in determining this answer. This is the formula I know:
Base time period is body will rise off the bottom in 4 1/2 days.
Add 24 hours for every 2 deg F below 50-water temp.
Subtract 8 hours for every 5 deg over 55-deg water temp.
Add 2 days if he was thin build, under weight or under 7 years old
Subtract 12 hours for every 25 lbs overweight
Reduce this time by 15% if they ate within the last 3 hours and 20%
if there was beer involved.
90 deg F 24 hrs
80 deg F 48 hrs
70 deg F 72 hrs
60 deg F 4-7 days
50 deg F uncertain
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∙ 14y agoThat depends upon a large number of factors. How warm is the water? Is the water still or is it moving? Bodies are usually heavier than water, so when the lungs are filled with water the body sinks. Decomposition begins to occur, and gasses released from that trapped inside the body cause it to float. Water that is sufficiently cold may act to prevent decomposition gasses from floating the corpse. Also, puncture wounds may release trapped gasses. Sometimes clothing may snag on something underwater, keeping the body down. Once the corpse floats scavengers such as carrion birds or insects may perforate the flesh, releasing the gasses that cause the body to sink again. This can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days, again depending upon a wide variety of circumstances.
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∙ 11y agoThere are a wide variety of factors that influence this. Bodies float due to decomposition gases trapped within it affect its buoyancy. A body sunk in cold, oxygen free water might not decompose in such a way as to ever cause it to float.
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∙ 16y agoAfter decomposing for a while the body builds up gasses that cause the body to float.
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∙ 14y agoI think it depends most on his/her mass and/or density. The other part is probably on training.
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