WordNet
mid-water
n. the water that is well below the surface but also well above the bottom; "many marine fishes inhabit the mid-waters"
Usage examples of "mid-water".
A Fin Whale's head is formed for engulfing living, swimming schools of fish, or concentrations of plankton, in mid-water, and not for scooping dinner off the bottom, even assum ing that a Finner would cat carrion at all.
Not only would whoever tried it be caught on his ship in mid-water, and unable to flee.
Jagun pushed the punt back to mid-water and kept it there until the cloud broke into wisps and settled.
These shoals of tiny, jewelled fish always hung over submerged reefs, even out here in the mid-water at the edge of the continental shelf.