Maybe I’m just remembering fiction I’ve read (Twain?), but will the corpse of a man float face down while a woman’s floats face up? Would this vary depending on physiological differences within each sex, or maybe with degree of decomposition? As far as that goes, how well does a corpse float?
This belief was mentioned briefly in the Straight Dope Staff Report Will shooting a cannon cause a drowned body to rise to the surface?.
That in turn spawned a thread in the Comments on Staff Reports forum: Mammary glands, floatation, Huck Finn