does a ship float higher in the water of an inland lake or in the ocean? why?

A flat-bottomed aluminum fishing boat has a mass of 60 kg and an area of 4.0 m2. When it is launched into the water (density 1,000 kg/m3), how far (in m) below the surface of the water does the bottom of the boat sink?

While sitting on a boat floating on a small pond, you drop an anchor into the water. The anchor immediately sinks to the bottom. Does the presence of the anchor in the water cause the pond to get shallower, deeper or stay the same compared to when the anchor was on the boat? Explain your answer.

Suppose a 200-kg block of wood with volume 0.5 m3 is placed in a liquid of density 500 kgm3. What will happen to the block of wood? All of these are possible. It will sink. It will float with no part of it above the surface of liquid. It will be partially submerged.