Braingle: 'Man Overboard' Brain Teaser

Man Overboard

Situation puzzles (sometimes called lateral thinking puzzles) are ones where you need to ask lots of yes or no questions to figure out what happened in the situation. These are good puzzles for groups where one person knows the puzzle and answers the questions.

Puzzle ID:	#682
Fun:	(2.9)
Difficulty:	(1.78)
Category:	Situation
Submitted By:	Christine
Corrected By:	cnmne

A man holidaying abroad was alone on his yacht when he fell off into deep water. He was a non-swimmer and wasn't wearing anything to help keep him afloat. He was rescued half an hour later. Why didn't he drown?

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Comments

einat16 Jun 09, 2002	That was easy... and I LOVE the dead sea :-)
kimmer91k Apr 01, 2003	Very interesting.
horse_luver Apr 12, 2003	Shouldn't this be a science tzer?
PineappleMama Mar 24, 2006	Except for Marge's sisters!
TehIgnored Mar 30, 2006	That was one of the few situation teasers that only has one answer....you get an A++
feathereafter Aug 06, 2006	nice one!
DEJL Aug 22, 2006	Fun,yet easy.
sirtidus218 Mar 13, 2007	A FISH COULD HAD WENT UNDER HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Subtox Mar 23, 2007	Hmm, this sounds like trivia to me. Very informative though! I'll check it out next time I fall off my yacht into the Dead Sea.
EA_KLEIN May 13, 2007	Am Yisrael Chai
Zomg-pie Nov 15, 2008	hehe! I actually new the answer thanks to social studies last year! Apparently- EWWW MY DAD JUST FARTED- one time some kids parents left their kid in the dead sea for a whole day and he just floated there!
nayru Feb 06, 2013	I was going to say that dolphins rescued him!