When the treated tube is submerged, the water-repelling interior traps a stable air pocket inside. This air prevents the tube ...

More than a century after the Titanic sank, engineers still have hopes of someday creating "unsinkable" ships. In a step toward reaching that lofty goal, researchers at the University of Rochester's ...

Sometimes referred to as belly boats or kick boats, float tubes are most often associated with fly-fishing for trout on relatively small waterways, but with a little creativity and effort, they can ...

There's few things I enjoy more than float tube fishing. I got my first when I was about 12 years old, after saving all my snow shoveling money to buy one. Since then, I've looked for any excuse to ...

Researchers have developed a new process that turns ordinary metal tubes unsinkable - meaning they will stay afloat no matter ...

Fishing from atop the water rather than from shore is the desire of many an angler whose cast falls just short of where the fish are rising. Then there are those situations where large sections of ...

Metal tubes said to be "unsinkable" have been engineered by scientists. They say the "superhydrophobic" design could lead to ...