If the deeper you go underwater the higher the pressure becomes due to the weight of the water column on top of you, does that mean that the deeper something is the heavier it becomes? For example, if I’m above water on a boat and want to bring up a submerged object by pulling from a rope attached to it, would I have to pull the weight of the object PLUS the weight of the water on top of it? I figure this would mean that past a certain depth it would become impossible to pull something up back to the surface no matter how small it is, which sounds like nonsense to me but I could obviously be wrong.
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Pressure acts from all directions, so the same amount of pressure acting from acts from the bottom and all other sides.
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