eli5: Why is it harder to pull things out of a pool than open air?

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Someone reminded me of that wife’s tale where it takes a crane to remove a mattress from a pool and that itself reminds me of how sometimes removing certain floaties from the pool could be needlessly hard at times while super easy other times. Why does this happen?

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I believe it would be because water is more dense than air, obviously you can’t compress water, so when you go to grab something you are also grabbing the water, which will slip out of your hand bringing whatever you were attempting to grab with it.

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