The sacred carp accumulated in a great heap below the surface of the water, their gaping circular mouths angled upward.
"The camera shot was about an inch above the surface of the water and the hand virtually in the water, " said the artist.
In an active drowning, a swimmer is at or below eye level at the surface of the water for about 10 to 20 seconds.
By simply piercing the surface of the water, you set off an energy force within the body of water that extends outward, impacting anything it touches.
Oceaneering leases the machines to oil companies, including BP, but sends its own crew to drive the complicated robots from boats on the surface of the water.
Beneath the surface of the water they are a creamy turquoise, and when the sky is clear, as it is now, the cerulean reflection on the sea is otherworldly.
Ships are one of the biggest threats to right whales, which are slow swimmers and hang out near the surface of the water, where they're susceptible to being hit.
Rear Adm Mary Landry said crews saw an area measuring one mile by five miles (1.5km by 8km) of what appeared to be oil on the surface of the water.
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For a while they sat, and Suchen remembered the splash of a fish breaking the surface of the water, and two egrets taking off with unhurried elegance, one after the other.
By using lightweight aerospace materials like carbon fiber, which has the strength of steel but weighs one-fifth as much, naval architects can design boats that plane across the surface of the water instead of plowing through it.
By using lightweight aerospace materials like carbon fiber, which has the strength of steel but weighs a fifth as much, naval architects can design boats that plane across the surface of the water instead of plowing through it.
In addition to their show of splashing around the surface of the water, the humpbacks enchant visitors as their cries echo below the water, conducting a beautiful symphony for divers used to listening to just the sound of their own breathing.
There are some systems that actually will take a circle and drop it just below the surface of the water and have the oil kind of flow into it, almost like a drain, recover it and pump it out.
One thing's clear, however: The artist purposely chose to position each image above a protruding ridgeline that runs along the cave wall, symbolizing either the surface of the water or tall grass that's obscuring the lower half of the deer.
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Satellites have long been used to track ice extent (area), but calculating the thickness of the marine floes requires the overflying spacecraft to gauge the difference between the top of the ice surface and the top of the water - a relatively simple calculation then gives the overall volume.
But the Flow Rate Technical Group was set up, and because we had a better idea and could use better equipment, NASA equipment, equipment from all over the government, to get as best an estimate as we could for an event that is happening 5, 000 feet below the surface of the water.
It was all reflected in the smooth surface of the water, coloured a coffee-black by tannins released from decaying plant life below.
The degree of stripping depended on a range of factors, including the volatility of the chemical, the temperature of the water and the surface area available for transfer.
Jon Nelson, of Ritsumeikan University, in Japan, has calculated that the most important property involved is the surface tension of the tiny clusters of water molecules from which snowflakes form.
The Swedish government is funding research into the feasibility of using a wind-turbine driven oxygen pump in the Baltic, following studies carried out last year by the University of Gothenburg, which looked at the effect of pumping oxygen-rich surface water to the bottom of two Swedish fjords.
The water footprint includes both the water withdrawn from surface and groundwater and the use of soil water (in agricultural production).
It is the bubbles coming to the surface of water in swamps and sloughs.
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One theory is that the summer sun melts ice on the surface of the glacier which creates pools of water which then flow into moulins -- narrow tubular shafts in the glacier.
In a number of areas the ground remains frozen beneath the surface, which means excess water will run into rivers instead of being absorbed by the soil.
And soon, nearly a mile beneath the surface of the ocean, oil began spewing into the water.
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Everywhere there is water under the surface , however it is different that the level of water differes from place and situation, and it demands painstaking effort and commitment o tap the natual resources ignoring the level underneath.
If a large body of water once existed on the red planet, the remainder of the water must now either be stored below the surface and in the much smaller south polar cap, or have been lost to space.
When the tide goes out, organizers shovel up and pat down the sand to create the racing line, but such are the elements that occasional pools of surface water can remain, which some horses don't mind but others despise -- merely another nuance to the racing at Laytown.
The council said surface water made existing potholes worse because the water washed away loose particles of road surface whenever vehicles passed over them.
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