To Whom It May Concern,

Problem number 8 should be moved from the fact section to the fanciful section. It is a witty answer, albeit inaccurate from a factual perspective.

Having been to, and in, The Dead Sea I know all the safety precautions which you are informed of about the potential dangers of the water there. IF someone were to venture out into the water at a level which was above their head (as the case would be in this problem) the salt level in the water actually lifts the person up out of the water and throws them, to which they fall into the water again and the process repeats indefinitely until they are either at a level which is not above their and they are lucky enough to land standing, or they are rescued, or they die and are eventually recovered.

I do like the way you (or whoever created this question) thought, but from a factual perspective it is inaccurate. Hence my reasoning for moving it out of the section labeled "Fact".

Giving You Something to Consider,

Well, thanks for your consideration but i'm highly dobutfull that the particular person would be 'thrown' out of the water with a sufficent enough height to be consecutivley thrown indefinitly, after all nothing is 'indefinite'. I also came to the conclusion that, given the nature in which you stated that 'IF somone was to venture out into the water at a level at which the water was above their head' that you have not accually been that far into the dead sea and are basing your evidence on a wild assumption or a rumour that you happened to hear. If, however what you said is accually true than it is still not a widley known fact (or rumour) and most people, when asked about the dead sea will refeer to its high salt level, enabling a person to float. So, regardless of weather or not you would be able to float or 'be thrown' in the dead sea (and wether you had the fortune to go there), it still remains common fact that you float in the dead sea and should therefore stay in the 'fact' section of this website. Heres a link of somone floating in the dead sea, dosen't look like there being thrown around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH6YQ6n2rlE&mode=related&search=Swimming
Oh, and just becuase you swallowed a dictonary as a child dsen't mean that you have the right to broadcast your [false] opinions wherever you please

Giving you somthing to consider

The Dead Sea is both 1) small and 2) not connected to any other water source, so having a yacht on the Dead Sea is a ridiculous concept. This puzzle fails

My class have suggested that he didn't drown because he was dead already - therefore didn't drown. A better sollution?

he was a magician and performed the magical floating man trick on himself.

Wow, talk about dumb.

a whale saved him. He rode on it

It's obvious he held on to the yacht.

holds to the anchor chain. the boat had its anchor down

The question doesn't say he didn't have anything to help him breathe. But because he can't swim he sank to the bottom and couldn't get back up. Why would the people not notice him if he was floating on the water?

there would never be a yacht on the dead sea, and the first person is a moron.

he could've been riding a dolphin or whale like nc said

the the person "w. dean".....what in the name of all that is intelligent are you talking about, water that throws you up in the air because of the salinity..floating yes, fine....it is the dead sea..
i do not and will not believe you have been there as you claim.. and get a life..
rant over!!

If the person had a high fat content in his body, wouldn't he float?

must have seen a shark below ;)

Now I'm just assuming here so dont' be having a dig at me.
surely if you did put a yacht on the dead sea if would float much higher in the water maybe even high enough to become unstable and capsize.
just a thought!

ok that person in the first box has no clue what they are talking about and assuming that the person wasn't in the dead sea but in an ocean, which is were u are most likely to find yacht: They had to have landed close enough to some sort of land and the tides (or current if that is possible) could have pulled him in then the people took 2 hours to find him on the land looking in both water and land. Not considering that salt makes u float or w/e the time frames to which a person can survive in water without be able to swim are very low, much less than the half hour the people took just to realize that the person was actually missing. I figured that the two hours was a really important factor and the guy had to be somewhere that he could breathe or else he would have drowned in a matter of minutes.

i like that one

the question says he is not wearing anything ,but it could be possible that at the time when he fell into the water he was holding a wooden block which helped him to float on the water!!!!!

He was wearing SCUBA gear without the weight belt and had a full oxygen tank.

There would never be a yacht on the dead sea!

The Dead Sea? I don't know.... you would think that because it has a lot of salt and you can float on it or something :P That question was LAME kinda lol

There is no yachting in the Dead sea. I visited the dead sea in the 1980's.

I read in one of the article that it is not possible to survive more that 45 minutes in dead sea due to salty nature. Also no creatures lives in the sea.

Wouldn't the man have died anyway because of the amount of salt in the water?

There's a ton of different answers that are plausible. This question is pretty stupid.