But just as his head dropped below the surface, and the boat tugged against his grip, his feet found the sand, and he stood.

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For ten minutes they surface and roll around our open boat, one diving literally under my feet.

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The nets are then pulled to the boat waiting on the surface.

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The anonymous swimmer then brought Ms Frankcom to the surface and got her on board a boat.

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He will also have an eight-man team monitoring his progress in a specially designed boat at the loch's surface.

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On May 4th 1915 its keepers, probably peering out from the elegant balcony on the seventh floor, saw a German submarine cheekily surface to buy the morning's catch from a local Irish fishing boat.

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The Army officer, who was living in Surrey, had been diving from a local boat on the Adamant Shoal, near Lulworth Banks, when she failed to return to the surface.

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