if something sinks, does it sink indefinitely, or is there a point where water pressure suspends it?

Question

if something sinks, does it sink indefinitely, or is there a point where water pressure suspends it?

In: Physics

Answer 1

There was a famous section in one Terry Pratchett novel where he imagined sunken ships floating in a layer of denser water in the depths of the sea. Now, nobody knows how water works on Diskworld, but in our “roundworld”, water is pretty much not compressible, i.e. it (almost) doesn’t get denser under pressure and therefore this won’t work. At least not in the scales of water depth that we have on Earth.