• Question: Can you blow a balloo underwater?

    Asked by anon-225888 to Sameed, Jose, joannabarstow, Heidi, Freya, Chris on 20 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Joanna Barstow

      Joanna Barstow answered on 20 Nov 2019:


      You would struggle, because the pressure on the outside of the balloon underwater would be much greater than the pressure on the outside in the air, so you would have to work that much harder to blow it up, and somehow stop water from getting in first.

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