The phrase "lie submerged" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is physically or metaphorically hidden beneath a surface, often water.
Example: "The ancient ruins lie submerged beneath the lake, waiting to be discovered."
Alternatives: "remain underwater" or "be hidden beneath".
That's when an engineer named Ramji Shivji Prabhu has a dream: the goddess Mahalakshmi and two others inform him their stone idols lie submerged in the creek.
Many archaeological and historic sites, as well as Native American tribal lands, now lie submerged under reservoirs for the CVP, which has received heavy criticism for promoting high-water-demand irrigated industrial farming that in turn has polluted rivers and groundwater.
The Trigger engaged in a memorable encounter on June 10 , 1943 after lying submerged in Tokyo Bay for 30 days.
In wooden boats, the poachers lay submerged lines dangling hundreds of hooks to snag the migrating sturgeon.
An entire town, for example, lies submerged beneath Henry's artificial lake, this sunken world a reminder of the enduring nature of supposedly bygone days.
You learned too how to deal with the wildlife, deadly crocodiles and hippos, that lay submerged in wait where the water flattened out.
It's what's thought to be the Sunken Hundred, the mythical land that lay submerged for centuries until it was revealed by a storm system in 2014.
Texas is renowned for its limestone caves, thanks to its ancient aquatic history when it lay submerged under a shallow inland sea.
The principal comic villain, Hermann Göring, stuffs his luggage with looted art, totters around the Imperial Suite in a silk kimono, or lies submerged in the bath as he endures the morphine-fiend's cold turkey.
I lay submerged reading Grettir the Strong, in which the hero kills a draugr (a sort of stinking medieval zombie) and is exiled to walk the interior of Iceland for 20 years.
On Sept 4, 2005, as much of the city still lay submerged in floodwaters, Sgt. Kenneth Bowen and Sgt. Robert Gisevius and Officers Anthony Villavaso and Robert Faulcon jumped in a Budget rental truck with several other officers and raced to the Danziger Bridge in eastern New Orleans, responding to a distress call.
