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I've read that, and I don't think any reasonable person would consider a vehicle being driven on a lake bed to be a vessel.
No, but its owner was storing it in a lake, it’s over 14’ long, and has a (non-functional) motor.
This would mean every vehicle used to launch a boat would be considered a boat in it's own right. As well as the trailer.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t tend to store my truck or trailer in the lake?
Neither did this guy, at least not intentionally.
It seems like a vehicle being driven in a body of water is considered a vessel, and that's just absurd.
A submersible is a vessel.
It's also not submerged, not entirely.
Submarines dont have to be underwater to still be submersibles.
Sailors are big fans of the boat floating when they want to get on and off the thing. The alternatives are...not so great.
Even submersibles float, just underwater.
The whole thing is absurd.
Submersibles always float, even when above the water line. They retain their state as submarines regardless of where and whence they float.
Even in dry dock, where they "float" in the air due to steel beams, they are still submarines.