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Updated: September 28, 2025
As I swept the sea to the west with my binoculars I thought I caught the dim shape of a submerged submarine moving slowly through the black depths like a hungry shark; but it disappeared almost immediately, and I was not sure. As a matter of fact, it was a submarine, one of six American under-water craft that had been assigned to patrol the south shore of Long Island.
"I guess I didn't make any mistake in this experiment," thought Joe, as he looked out through the glass and saw the crowd applauding. His swimming exhibition at an end, Joe came out to prepare for the second part of his act the under-water endurance feat, during which he did several simple tricks. "Though the fish swimming about may spoil some of the juggling," Joe mused. "I never thought of that.
But where it crossed the main channel of the brook, and required the greatest strength, it had a pronounced upward curve to help it resist the thrust of the current. He contemplated this strong curve for some time; then, a glance at the sun reminding him that it was near noon, he took off his cap to the low-domed house in the water and made haste back to camp for dinner. In the Under-water World
It is an under-water boat of the Emperor, and she comes to seek the petrol stored in the cave." "Liable to disappointment then," said Gorman. "That petrol's gone." "I know it," said the King, "therefore I say 'Behold destiny. But I, Gorman, I laugh at destiny. I mock. I snap the finger and thumb of my hand. So." He snapped the fingers of both hands with airy defiance. "I am a king.
She was really an under-water tricycle, a diving-bell, a wrecking-craft, and a surface gasoline-boat all rolled into one.
Literal swarms of destroyers England had running to and fro in the North Sea, keen for the chase and too quick at dodging and too fast to be in any danger of the under-water dagger thrust of the assassins whom they sought. There cannot be too many. They are the eyes of the navy; they gather information and carry a sting in their torpedo tubes.
Once having his feet on something approaching firm ground, he gazed about through the window-like eye of the helmet until he got his bearings. Then he began to walk heavily along the bottom of the harbor, over sand and rocks. It was a strange walk that he took, half stumbling, slowly and cumbersomely groping his way like a queer under-water animal.
It was during the American Revolution that a man went below the surface of the waters of New York Harbour in a submarine boat just big enough to hold him, and in the darkness and gloom of the under-water world propelled his turtle-like craft toward the British ships anchored in mid-stream.
But she had under-water endurance down to a science, and it is even said that her last record was four minutes. Sponge and pearl divers of tropical countries are credited with power to remain under water for long periods some claim five minutes but the records give about three minutes as the average, though it is possible that some exceptional individual may equal five minutes.
In fact, it was the submarine itself which, contrary to all pre-war theories, proved the most effective type of naval craft against its own kind. Whereas fuel economy compelled German submarines to spend as much time as possible on the surface, the Allied under-water boats, operating near their bases, could cruise awash or submerged and were thus able to creep up on the enemy and attack unawares.
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