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Quotes About Underwater

This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives at one end and an enthralled but still highly skilled police officer at the other.
~ Eoin Colfer
Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time.
~ Rick Riordan
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whatever we want, lies beneath the sea and we have better maps of Mars than that 50 percent.
~ Robert Ballard
I mean, there is amazing amount of oil and gas and other resources out beneath the sea. It's staggering.
~ Robert Ballard
boom! powering underwater, mermaid made real I felt my gills growing I could breathe without air.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
We can see the mind as a lotus. Some lotuses are still stuck in the mud, some have climbed above the mud but are still underwater, some have reached the surface, while others are open in the sun, stain-free. Which lotus do you choose to be? If you find yourself below the surface, watch out for the bites of fishes and turtles.
~ Achaan Chah
The sonic world of the foyer and vestibule comes at him distorted and from a distance, as if someone's moving furniture underwater.
~ Dominic Smith
Sighted sub, sank same.
~ Donald Francis Mason
The distance came slowly, like seawater filling up a boat, without us even realizing it. Before you know it you're underwater.
~ Jenny Han
U-boats in fact traveled underwater as little as possible, typically only in extreme weather or when attacking ships or dodging destroyers.
~ Erik Larson
Cardiff thinks I'm tied up with them? I've half a mind to tell him to go fuck himself right now. Fortunately, the rational side of my brain keeps me from going all McPherson on him. I take a slow breath and put the regulator back in my mouth as I slip under the waves
~ Andrew Mayne
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles.
~ Rose George
I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I use to light. But with whales, you're not going to be able to really light a 45-foot subject. Your strobes are only effective for maybe five or six feet underwater.
~ Brian Skerry
Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself.
~ Jonathan Brandis
We did not evolve to solve tricky logic puzzles on our own, they point out, and so we shouldn't be surprised by the fact that we're no good at it, any more than by the fact that we're no good at breathing underwater. What we did evolve to do is persuade other people of our views, and to guard against being misled by others. Reasoning is a social activity, in other words, and should be practiced as such.
~ Annie Murphy Paul
Everybody's got some fascination with undersea life, don't you think?
~ Stephen Hillenburg
My favourite thing to do on this planet is to scuba dive.
~ Buzz Aldrin
I'm scared of fish - the way they look at you.
~ Big Narstie
Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater.
~ Robin Hobb
Finding Nemo
~ Sally Rippin
The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night!
~ Salman Rushdie
In the ocean, [bioluminescence] is the rule rather than the exception.
~ Edith Widder
So we sailed on to the sunTill we found a sea of green,And we lived beneath the wavesIn our yellow submarine.
~ Anonymous
Under water men shall walk,Shall ride, shall sleep, and talk;In the air men shall be seenIn white, in black, and in green.
~ Anonymous