Thank you for the flattering compliments and especially the constructive crit.
I am going to re work the water, so thank you very much for the suggestions and photographs. I have to strategize how to do it, but you are right regarding the way it currently looks. A fresh eye is good at times like this.
Regarding the buoyancy of lifejackets and life rings. According to Doug Stanton, author of: "In Harm's Way, The SInking of the USS Indianpolis and the Extraordinary Story of the Survivors". In the text is the following, which is also discussed in the documentary:
"An estimated 300 men were killed upon impact; close to 900 sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they remained, undetected by the navy,
for nearly five days. This fact is especially horrific when one considers that their cork filled life jackets lost buoyancy after only three days."
With thi information I hypothosized that on the wreck of the fishing boat, at the bottom for about a month, the life rings and jackets, as long as they were lashed, would sing back down after the cork had become saturated. I hope that helps to clarify things a bit.
