Mortgaged to the hilt and then some ... and where it's at

Usage examples of underwater.

Van Effen stabbed the button and less than two seconds later, deep and muffled like a distant underwater explosion but very unmistakable for all that - to anyone with normal hearing, the sound must have been audible up to a kilometre away - the reverberation from the detonating amatol rolled across the square.

Sunlight glancing off the slow river trembled on the stones, blurring them slightly, as if he were seeing it underwater.

Kea had seen of the longliners that hung off Earth, or the torchships that sat like so many oranges, torches underwater, out beyond the barrier.

A bluish underwater light pierced through it from the pit, vanishing when Marchpane lit the lantern on the table.

The two girls told me that when they went bathing in the sea they enjoyed mutual masturbation underwater with a little boy who was their friend.

As a parting gift for the otters who had done so much for her, she left the carcass of a small-horn buck anchored in fairly deep water near the underwater entrance to the den of the mustelids to make it difficult for other predators to rob her friends.

There are more reefs and skerries and underwater rocks and overfalls and whirlpools and tidal races in twenty miles there than in the whole of the rest of Scotland.

Craig slept for a few hours and then by the light of the paraffin lantern began modifying the oxygen equipment for use underwater.

Even though their blasters could fire underwater, the heat from the plasma bolt would instantly turn the water into steam and vapor along its path, and in a confined space might parboil the man firing it.

Great Salt Lake, which now ended miles to the west, was a big mother pluvial lake that put this spot almost a thousand feet underwater, with beaches miles to the east, up in the ramparts of the Wasatch Range.

While towed underwater he plied reamer, drench-hoses and gant-hook, and after three hours exertion, dislodged the impaction.

The town clock, which had chimed off the hours of his imprisonment here, had not tolled since nine this morning, when the little tune that preceded the striking had sounded draggy and weird, like a tune played underwater by a drowned music box.

People who spend way too much time looking at spectrograms of underwater sound.

On the bottom other crawling machines were already waiting to put the sealing forms around the junction so the special tremie, underwater setting concrete, could be poured around the ends to join them indivisibly.

Years ago, one of the Amas caught her rope in a rock underwater, and the people have talked of the accident ever since.