To increase the extent of flooding your vessel can suffer without sinking, you could __________.
A. ballast the vessel
B. increase reserve buoyancy
C. lower the center of gravity
D. raise the center of gravity
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B is the best answer. Increasing Freeboard will lighten the vessel and increase Reserve Buoyancy.
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