On Monday, December 21, 2015 at 11:06:45 PM UTC-5, Tony Hwang wrote:
Sylvia Else wrote:
On 22/12/2015 11:04 AM, M. Stradbury wrote:
Is it true (or an urban myth) that a swimmer would be sucked
under (presumably to drown) when a capital ship sinks?


Mythbusters tried it, and concluded that there was no significant
sucking sown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvU_dkKdZ0U

Sylvia.

So when ship is abandoned, crews jump off the ship, they hang around the
sinking ship, right? They always swim away from the ship as much as
they can. Ask any sailors.

You are assuming that they have time to swim away from a rapidly sinking
vessel, that they are not injured, that they are not helping a ship mate
or a loved one, etc.

I'm not saying that they will get sucked down or that they won't, merely
responding to your statement that they "always swim away from the ship
as much as they can". That doesn't address the question as to whether
they would get sucked down or not, it avoids the question all together.