eli5: Why do drowned bodies sink and then float?

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eli5: Why do drowned bodies sink and then float?

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Basically a body turns into a flesh balloon as the bacteria in its guts consume its internal organs and fart gases that are lighter than air which inflated the corpse and makes it float or at least until a the gas escapes.

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