Explain this!Mini surfers
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Last March, 47 average-size people in Snapper Rocks Snapper Rocks is a small rocky outcrop on the northern side of Point Danger at the southern end of Queensland's Gold Coast. It is a famous surf break and today the start of the large sand bank known to surfers as the Superbank. , Australia, rode the waves aboard the world's longest surfboard. This 12 meter (40 foot)-long board took creator Nev Hyman one month to construct. How did this surf crowd stay afloat? As the surfers pressed downward on the board, the salty salt·y adj. salt·i·er, salt·i·est 1. Of, containing, or seasoned with salt. 2. Suggestive of the sea or sailing life. 3. Witty; pungent; earthy: salty humor. liquid pushed back up with a force called buoyancy buoyancy (boi`ənsē, b  `yən–), upward force exerted by a fluid on any body immersed in it. Buoyant force can be explained in terms of Archimedes' principle. . And to keep from tipping forward or backward, the surfers had to position their bodies so that the total weight behind the board's center of mass (where the entire mass of a moving object is concentrated) was equal to the weight in front of it.
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