Yes, I have read a good deal about the underwater ships,” March said.
The next week, as Scoot started off from Corpus Christi for the training carrier off the shores of Florida, March was setting off on one of the most important underwater trips of his training.
March knew his navigation thoroughly while he was still on surface ships, but with the intensive extra study he had gone through at New London, especially on dead reckoning and “blind” navigation for underwater travel, he was a master.
Neither one minded the jibes of the other, but the dispute as to the respective merits of air and underwater craft never ended.
The underwater speed of the S-18 was rated at eleven knots an hour.
We're going to submerge and run underwater to the Sea King plant.
The S-18 continued to run underwater at a bare four knots an hour.
He's something of an international figure; been mixed up in a lot of different things, South American revolutions, Arctic explorations, underwater treasure hunts and rum running when that business was profitable.
I imagine he'll attempt to trail us all of the way to the island but we may fool him if we decide to travel underwaterfor a few miles.
Again those two underwater craft, so oddly contrasted, were face to face.
A full-throated cheer burst from the men below, a cheer that rang for minutes as they realized they were free forever of the octopi, of the cold underwater city, of the clutching tentacles.
Look--there's anunderwater cliff about half a mile dead ahead.
Cleaning the underwater parts with the help of divers is slow and unsatisfactory.
Nearly all the underwater part of her was visible.
Jan had bagged a ten-pound rockfish underwater on the day before, and they had baked it in a driftwood fire on a beach at Poplar Island.
All underwater creatures with any mobility at all get out of the way as fast as possible.
Harris asked, "Sure you can find your way underwaterin the dark?
Rick kept his hands out in case of unexpected underwater objects, but forged ahead at a good speed.
He and Scotty had long ago agreed that four sounds underwater would be the danger signal.
There were no underwater obstacles, and the depth was great enough.
He and Scotty had practiced estimating underwater distance by the number and timing of their leg strokes.
Sensors must penetrate foliage and walls and detect threats such as underground and underwater mines.
Broadband underwater active acoustics could address pressing needs such as shallow-water anti-submarine warfare and mine detection (both buried and silt covered).
Rick had led the girls through the entire series of underwater maneuvers with the lungs, including practice in sharing one lung between them.
Rick went to the bottom and moved along, doing underwater acrobatics and touching a rock here and there.
He got into his harness, then picked up his movie camera in itsunderwater case.
They had started the day before teaching Jan how to use underwater breathing apparatus.
If again obliged to submerge before regaining her base she would be compelled to rest helplessly on the bottom of the sea, since her underwater propulsion powers were almost nil.
The U-boat, caught by the underwater undulations, rolled and pitched alarmingly.
Possibly there are underwater connections between some ponds and the headwater streams of the Rio Mesquites.
A smaller underwater boat of the same type was privately built at New Orleans at the beginning of the war, lost on her trial trip, and not brought up again till after peace was declared.
As the old type of boat soon became extinct, the distinction was not necessary and the old name “submarine” is still applied to all underwater craft.
This is the ideal motive-power for underwater boats, and it was at this time that Jules Verne described the ideal submarine in his immortal story of “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
But how did King James--the first and last monarch to venture on an underwater voyage--the other passengers, and the twelve rowers get enough air?
It showed a cross section of an underwater boat built and navigated on the Thames by one Symons.
It could easily have been seen from the submarine, and must have been, for he displayed it just before the underwater boat came up.
The underwater craft was still coming on, her periscope in the midst of a hail of fire from the steamer's guns.
And then, having a broader mark at which to aim, the gunners sent a perfect hail of lead and shells at the underwater boat, and with such effect that some hits were made.
But the lack of steel, of engines, and of other recent inventions didn’t daunt the dauntless Van Drebel in the least; for he went right ahead and built his underwater craft of such materials as he could get hold of.
In the first place, when submarine chasers and aircraft are scouting the seas in search of underwater boats it is not only dangerous but often impossible for a submarine to keep in touch with the base-ship by wireless.
Just below the eye-piece of the periscope is the underwater steering wheel, and close to and to one side of the latter is the underwater compass.
Starting from Bremen, Germany, and traveling underwater through the English Channel for a distance of 90 miles without even once coming to the surface, she made the entire voyage without mishap and docked at Baltimore just 16 days later.
Such is the Deutschland, and to her belongs the distinction of being the first underwater merchantman.
The first underwater boat built by Simon Lake was shaped very much like a ship.
It was eighty years after Fulton made his classic underwaterexperiments that Garrett, an English inventor, designed, built, and operated a submarine which used steam as its source of power.
Then one fine day there bobbed up in American waters near Chesapeake Bay a monster merchant submarine—the largest underwater craft ever built and the first of her kind ever seen.
After this first and very successful attempt at submarine building it was not long until others began to make improvements and to build underwater boats which would outdo the spectacular performance of Van Drebel’s submarine.
She is, therefore, as large as many of our coastwise steamers, so that she is something more than a mere underwater boat—indeed, she is a veritable submarine ship.
Even in the earliest underwater experiments, you will remember, it was fitted with a bomb the sole purpose of which was to blow the enemy ship to atoms.
Underwater Demolition Teams The naval plans for the amphibious phase of the operation contemplated the use of seven underwater demolition teams--three to cover the northern coast beaches and four to cover the southern beaches.
The destroyers in the two target areas were to furnish protection to the mine sweepers and the underwater demolition teams.
On 14 October information was received from guerrilla sources that there were no underwater obstacles off the beaches between Abuyog and Tacloban.
Although there were no underwater obstacles, mines, or barbed wire along Red Beach, the water was too shallow to permit vessels the size of LST's to come in and make a dry landing.
While the Rangers were seizing the small islands, the mine sweepers and underwater demolition teams were to start clearing the gulf of natural and man-made obstacles.
Oldendorf; and a close covering group, an escort carrier group, a mine-sweeping group, and twelve underwater demolition teams.
The teams, starting A minus 2 (18 October), were to locate underwater obstructions and detonate mines.
On A minus 1, bombardment was chiefly for the purpose of providing effective support and coverage for the underwater demolition teams.
On 18 and 19 October the underwaterdemolition teams made a reconnaissance of the landing areas, accompanied by destroyers which bombarded the shores.
The two days' reconnaissance disclosed no underwater obstacles or mines in the vicinity of the proposed landing beaches.
The underwater gradient was shallow, extending out half a mile in places.
Close fire support was to be given to the underwater demolition teams and destructive fire was to be delivered against enemy forces attempting overwater movements.
This was one of the tricks he did to keep the audience amused while the seconds of his underwater endurance were ticked off.
Navy Underwater Demolition Teams, augmented by Marines, blew up hundreds of man-made obstacles in the shallows.
Navy obligingly swept for mines and employed underwater demolition teams (UDT) to breach obstacles in order to open the port for direct, seaborne delivery of critical supplies to the Marines.
One of the most impressive lessons of this vast war is the vulnerability of sea-power and sea communications through the development of underwater transport, and the immense importance of railway communication.
At our little table sat the captain of a submarine who was then in London for a few days on richly merited leave, a distinguished young officer of the "mother ship" accompanying our underwater craft, and myself.
A shadow which, as Maniel manipulated his instruments, became a floating underwater fortress, ten times the size of any submarine known to the Americas.
Some of the Marines and most of the soldiers who came in after the first assault waves would wade ashore with full packs, water to the waist or higher, facing the perils of both underwater shellholes and Japanese fire.
The next best thing to a welcome mat for Marine assault waves had been laid by the audacious Navy Underwater Demolition Teams 3, 4, and 6, who cleared the beach obstacles.
Flora and fauna are so closely associated in the underwater world!
Had it run afoul of an underwater rock or the wreckage of some enormous derelict ship?
But my gallant Ned," I told him, "the forests of Crespo Island are simply underwater forests!
After likewise closing the opening in the skiff, the Canadian began to unscrew the nuts still bolting us to the underwater boat.
I wanted to offer you the unusual sight of an underwater eruption.
Undoubtedly the latter's encounter with the Abraham Lincoln, when the Canadian hit it with his harpoon, had led Commander Farragut to recognize the narwhale as actually an underwater boat, more dangerous than any unearthly cetacean!
And in all honesty, before I leave him forever, I want to finish this underwater tour of the world, whose first stages have been so magnificent.
Would he wait for nightfall and exit through his underwater passageway in secrecy?
Besides, Professor Aronnax, you'll see for yourself that during these underwater hunting trips, we make no great expenditure of either air or bullets.
The floor of this immense valley is made picturesque by mountains that furnish these underwater depths with scenic views.
This way, you'll learn the full story about this combination underwater and underground navigating.
Fritz saw the flying-boat coming and ducked, but the swirl where he had gone down was still showing on the surface when the four heavy underwaterexplosions occurred right across his probable path.
He was just about to give the order to blow the tanks and come up and stalk the Fritz, when two heavy underwater explosions shook his boat.
As a result of the underwater obstacles and beach mines uncovered at Tarawa, for the first time Navy underwater demolition teams had been formed for future operations.
As he builds, he cleverly fashions several underwater entrances to the house that will be.
On the other hand, an otter will often take over the abandoned burrow of a bank beaver, and access to this abode must be by an underwater entrance.
Dens usually are in a burrow, which may or may not have an underwater entrance.
Wet, green cattail leaves in a damp underground cavern make a poor bed by most standards, but no doubt, it seems a dry, cozy retreat to the muskrat as it emerges dripping from its underwater tunnel.
Accompanying navalunderwater demolition teams would do the hydrographic work and locate underwater obstacles, natural or man-made.
Members of Kauffman’s UDT party confirmed the Marine findings and reported that “no mines or manmade underwater obstructions were found.
An underwater demolition team using floats carrying explosives swam to White Beach 2 shortly before dawn to blast away boulders and destroy beach mines.
The Navy assigned to the mission Underwater (UDT) Team 5, led by Lieutenant Commander Draper L.
There were many floating mines and underwater boulders in the approaches.
They've got an underwatercable going under the sand beach and out and down to the space-cruiser.
The dangling underwater camera faithfully reported what it saw by the light that was lowered with it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "underwater" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buried; drowned; engulfed; flooded; immersed; inundated; submarine; submerged; sunken; under
