11.   Elian was found floating on an inner tube off the coast of Fort Lauderdale on Thanksgiving Day, one of just three Cubans to have lived through the ordeal.

12.   Every day, a man in a rowboat raked every single root found floating on the surface.

13.   Finding yourself floating amid a pod of whales is a once-in-a-lifetime happening, but chances are good that determined whale-watchers will get at least a brief sighting.

14.   Fishermen found Elian floating on an inner tube off the coast of Fort Lauderdale last November.

15.   Her body was found floating in the Pacific a mile from the yacht, and a dinghy had washed up nearby.

16.   He was found floating in an inner-tube off the Florida coast on Thanksgiving Day after a boat carrying him from Cuba sank.

17.   Her body was found floating shoeless in a shallow lotus pond not far from his campus residence.

18.   His body was found floating in the Trinity River a week later.

19.   His body was found floating near a pier in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, in April, two months after he disappeared.

20.   If two maggots find themselves floating in the same pitcher, they wrap their legless bodies around each other and wrestle until one manages to drown the other.