Sentence examples for adjusting buoyancy from inspiring English sources

The spermaceti organ may also play a role by adjusting buoyancy (see below).

By adjusting the buoyancy of the diving suits, the aquanauts can feel as if they are walking in the one-sixth gravity of the Moon or the three-eighths gravity of Mars.

In the case of deep-sea sharks, the liver is the main organ for lipids' storage, being in the same time an energy source and means for adjusting the buoyancy.

Whether the creation is made and shipped out remains to be seen, but Musk suggested on Twitter that it would be "[f]itted for a kid or small adult to minimize open air" with "[s]egmented compartments to place rocks or dive weights" and "adjust buoyancy".

Like a submarine, the nautilus changes the amount of gas in the empty chambers to adjust its buoyancy.

Many aquatic bacteria produce gas vacuoles, which are protein-bound structures that contain air and allow the bacteria to adjust their buoyancy.

The cuttlefish, however, which swims or hovers above the bottom or rests on the bottom, adjusts its buoyancy through the amount of gases contained in the porous cuttlebone.

Unlike other fish, which inflate air bladders to adjust their buoyancy on the fly, sharks rely on a skeleton of cartilage and a liver filled with lighter-than-water oil to help beat gravity's pull.

Many bony fish have an internal organ called a swim bladder that adjusts their buoyancy through manipulation of gases.

Thus, Kerguelen shags adjust their buoyancy to maximum dive depth.

As an explanation for this, we propose that shags adjust their buoyancy to depth by varying the amount of respiratory air they dive with.