Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands are remnants of still another mountain range, which runs parallel to the coast but is now almost entirely submerged beneath the waters of the Pacific.
So they pushed back into that great submerged city, with Captain Petersen and his skeptical crew.
Swiftly the Nereid dropped to that submerged plateau.
As Larry stood gazing upon that mighty proof that this submerged plateau had once stood forth proudly above the sea, he realized that he was a party to one of the most profound discoveries of the ages.
It was now a long way past the spot where the Dewey laysubmerged and had passed northward, several hundred yards nearer the coast.
It was now more than twelve hours since the Dewey had submerged after the exciting events of the preceding night and the air supply was still sufficiently impregnated with oxygen to enable the imprisoned crew to breathe free and normally.
Jack directed that the Monitor be submerged until she rested on the bottom of the channel.
Running partly submerged the Monitor had sighted the big fellow several miles astern.
The submarines were running submergedwith only the tips of their periscopes showing.
As the Bergerhof neared them McClure submerged a little and jockeyed his vessel into position for a sure shot.
The Dewey had submerged after taking aboard the half-drowned commander and his rescuer, and at a safe depth gotten safely out of the zone of danger.
For an instant the Dewey quivered as the torpedo shot from the bow of the submerged ship and raced away under the water.
McClure signaled for the Dewey to be submergedwith all speed.
In a few minutes, driving ahead at full speed, the Dewey was submerged until only her periscopes showed.
McClure had given orders that at the first sign of betrayal the conning tower was to be closed and the Monitor submerged again as quickly as possible.
Down in the turret of the submerged Dewey an extraordinary scene was being enacted.
In the petrol tanks was plenty of fuel for the engines, but it was useless here on the bottom of the sea where only the electric motors could be used in submerged locomotion.
One of them dropped from the deck of the destroyer as it passed over the spot where the Dewey had submerged might blow the diminutive ship to atoms.
The submerged portion of the hull, or rather all that portion of it lying below the lower deck, was thus divided by 15 transverse bulkheads into 16 separate watertight compartments.
So Celtic religion outwardly was submerged in Roman religion; and then later.
There are traces of this submerged diversity of opinion.
Persianism was submerged for about thirteen decades under the Seleucids; then the Parthians cut in, and the drowning waters were drained away.
My imprisonment, the vexations of jail life, the future--all is submerged in the flood of misery at the realization of my failure.
The storm had grown worse, and more than once she glanced anxiously at the portholes whose glass, over half the time, were submerged by swirls of greenish water.
But he had thrown these upon the hands of a trainer and submerged his personal interests six hours after Congress declared war.
Cal explained that these submerged oysters, being nearly all the time under salt water, and growing singly, or nearly so, were far fatter and better than those in the bank or near its foot.
They ran submerged at periscope depth for two hours until darkness began to fall, with one of the officers having his eye glued to the little rubber piece on the ’scope every minute.
It had surprised March when he first learned that our own subs traveled submerged in our own waters.
Their lower ends were down in wells in the deck and would not be raised until after they were submerged and the skipper wanted to look around.
But I can’t make much speed, having to run submergedin the daytime.
Most of all, he saw that it looked tremendous, that it seemed almost on top of him, although he realized that its size in comparison with the half-submerged sub made it look closer than it really was.
Here they could easily go on the surface, but once out in the open sea they would have to travel submerged during daylight hours.
During the daytime they ran submerged a good deal of the time, taking a look through the periscope occasionally.
They gave their negative report to the patrol, learned that no other pigboat contacted had had better luck, then submerged as the flying boat took off from the choppy waters.
The crossing after the sinking at Wake Island had been uneventful, since they had run submerged most of the time during daylight hours.
But even American subs submerged and ran deep and quiet when American ships were near by.
When we get a bit further we’ve got to run submerged most of the time anyway.
They simulated traveling through enemy waters and so ran submerged most of the daylight hours, the Skipper taking a look around occasionally with the periscope.
He was peering through the periscope of the submerged pigboat, looking over the tossing waters of the sea.
Just as dawn was breaking he got up and had a cup of coffee, had the boat submerged to periscope depth, and traveled ahead more slowly, checking regularly to make sure he was exactly on the course he had agreed on with Scoot.
Jeff was speaking out his plain thought and at the same time assuring them both that they needn't, either of them, be submerged by Esther, because real beauty wasn't in her.
If we're not, we'll die submerged in our own red fount.
On the other hand, it is held by some that the submerged groves were carried into their places by immense landslides.
The vast white marble baths he had built for him are now submerged on the coast, and boats glide over the spot where they stood.
Down the boat settled upon the submerged part of the rock--a hopeless wreck!
In some places, where the eddies tugged at the blade, it seemed as though a submerged giant seized it and tried to twist it from her grasp!
The submerged deflecting wires, held at one end by a short projection from the ship's stem-post below the water-line, and at the outer end by the submerged paravanes.
These weapons, although similar in their internal mechanism to the ordinary mine, were specially designed for expulsion from submerged tubes or chambers.
Precautionary sweeping usually carried out by small craft at big naval bases such as Portsmouth (Spithead) and Rosyth (Firth of Forth) inside the submerged defences.
It will be observed that in all cases the object is to drag a submerged wire through the water at an angle from the ship's course until it encounters the mooring wire of a mine.
The paravanes being towedsubmerged at an outward angle.
The result of such a manoeuvre would be either a gun duel on the surface or the torpedoing of the attacking submarine by one or other vessel of the decoy's submerged escort.
It is of course quite impossible for one of these vessels when totallysubmerged to fight another in the same blind condition.
A supply of compressed air was then admitted into the back of the tube and the mine forced out into the open sea, in the same way as a torpedo is now expelled from a submerged tube.
A trawler was employed to tow a submarine by a submerged hawser.
That's right," said Aleck, after a glance at the half-submerged boat.
And now (the city) entered unto the earth and now it rose upwards; and at one time it went in a crooked way and at another time it submerged into water.
And there were seen timingilas and tortoises and makaras like unto rock submerged in water.
Thereupon, now (the world) displayed itself, and now it was devoured by darkness; and now the world disappeared from view and now it was submerged under water.
My theme is that the individual soul has been swallowed up and submerged in the soul of the multitude; and in my opinion such an event is of far greater importance to the future of the race than the passing supremacy of one nation.
The McClure Press had died the natural death of the proof sheet, and the proof king was submerged in the cause of prohibition.
At a depth of 34 feet the pressure on any submerged object is 15 lbs.
If they are partly submerged perpendicularly, the water will rise between the plates--furthest on the side at which the two plates touch, and less and less as the other edge is approached.
The embryos of the coral polypes have fixed themselves upon the submerged shore of the island, as far out as they could live, namely, to a depth of twenty or twenty-five fathoms.
During that period the greater part of the British islands, of Central Europe, of Northern Asia, have been submerged beneath the sea and raised up again.
Partially submerged forest from depression of shore in Alaska during earthquake 80 75.
Such furrowed and half-submerged valleys have a characteristic U-shaped section, so that their walls rise precipitously from the sea.
The irregular central portion is the only part of the island that was not submerged in Lake Algonquin.
Under the impact of such heavy rafts, the half-submerged bowlders near the shore are forced up the beach until they lie in a ridge or bowlder wall.
Upon a submerged coast the most significant lines in the view are those of the rock islet and the steep-walled fjord.
Partially submerged forest upon the shore of Knight Island, Alaska, due to the sinking of a section of the coast during the earthquake of 1899 (after Tarr and Martin).
A road had been cut to it between cornfields, so that in the time of springing corn a man walking on this road seemed to be wading to the knees in a green undulating sea, which had risen and submerged the hill.
He noticed, on looking narrowly at the foaming surge through which he must pass in order to gain the rocky point, that many of the submerged rocks showed their tops above the flood, like black spots, when each wave retired.
For it is possible to carry impudence to a point where indignation is momentarily submerged by the sense of the ludicrous.
Mr. McKay and Andy could follow his movements as he descended with slow yet powerful strokes, till he disappeared from view beneath the submerged craft.
By the aid of a lantern which he hung from the deck-beams, the apprentice descended once more to the partially submerged hold.
