The prey is then dragged to the bottom of the burrow and eaten.
Apparently, divers who stray past the wall's edge risk being dragged to the bottom by powerful downward currents.
Others may lament that it has taken another death – in this case, that of Dawn Brancheau, Tilikum's trainer, who was dragged to the bottom of his pool by her possibly demented charge.
SeaWorld first claimed the 40-year-old trainer had slipped and fallen, later changing its mind to say Tilikum must have thought Brancheau's ponytail was a fish or a toy, which caused her to be dragged to the bottom of the tank.
He seemed to have gone for good when he was dragged to the bottom of the reservoir by mysterious forces, but returned at the Helping Hand, just in time to witness the Victor-assisted suicide of his brother Toni, the man who killed him in the first place.
In an incident on Wednesday night, fire officials said one of their divers, who was scouring a city creek bed for a drowning victim, had his face mask knocked off and was dragged to the bottom after officers on a police launch threw a grappling hook in the water.
This shelved trophy mentality is dangerous, because women are so easily and very frequently dragged to the bottom of the pyramid through notions of patriarchy -- at any moment, every Arab man can assume the right to behave like her angry, dishonored father.
Sharon dragged himself to the bottom of the gully, where the blood of the wounded mingled with the green scum on the muck.
"I'm worried we could get dragged down to the bottom because we've lost two games on the trot now and other people below us have won.
Once, a specially designed swimming costume proved so heavy when wet that it dragged her to the bottom of the pool.
