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Capsize facts for kids

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RMS Queen Elizabeth capsized after a fire.

Capsize is means when a boat has overturned in the water.

Images for kids

  • Laser Standard 160588 02

    Righting a capsized Laser sailing dinghy by standing on the daggerboard

  • Kayak roll

    A kayak roll, after intentional capsizing

  • Aus2

    A team at the 2005 ISAF Team Racing World Championship narrowly avoids capsizing.

  • Rejsning-af-kaentret-hobie-cat

    Righting a capsized Hobie Cat

  • Wroxham Broad capsize practise

    Practice: righting a sailing dinghy after a deliberate capsize on Wroxham Broad

  • Tromsö, Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945 CL2830

    German battleship Tirpitz lying capsized in Tromsø fjord after the Operation Catechism air raid, attended by a salvage vessel.

  • Coast Guard response boat-small DVIDS1076833

    A crane capsizes a small coast guard vessel to test its righting ability

  • Eiswette(II) 20080627 Kentertest diff

    A larger self-righting vessel's stability test. Note large deckhouse, which is almost the only part submerged when fully inverted.

  • Northumberland model lifeboat

    The Beeching-Peake SR (self-righting) lifeboat won an 1851 competition for improved lifeboat design. Drawings show large, high buoyancy tanks, and ballast.

  • RNLI Chatham Lizzie Porter Holy Island 8352

    The Lizzie Porter is a Peake-class lifeboat, an early design of self-righting boat. Note the high, rounded buoyancy tanks at her bow and stern, and low sides amidships.

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