The centroid of the immersed part of a ship or other floating body.
〔物理〕浮力中心
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This is difficult to do since the center of your body mass is about 6 inches above your navel, but your center of buoyancy is between your armpits.
Although this position appears to enhance stability as determined from the arrow model, it also appears to be nearly coincident with the center of buoyancy.
When a ship heels, the center of buoyancy B moves away from the centre-plane, and hence it creates restoring moment around the centre of gravity G.
This distance is called the metacentric height, which takes negative values when the center of mass is above the center of buoyancy, as is common among fishes.