Sentence examples for steep underwater from inspiring English sources

A stone's throw from the shore there is a steep underwater cliff, where the bottom drops a few hundred feet and the water turns a velvety blue.

It's not the bit above the water that's important here, but the rest of it – a steep underwater wall of rock descending 20m to a seabed that is positively riotous with marine life.

The underwater environment with steep cliffs, caves and vegetation was tougher to navigate than searchers expected.

Authorities say the casks holding the nuclear fuel can withstand steep falls, fires, punctures and underwater pressure.

The intent was to sink the ship in shallow water to make it easily visible from a glass-bottom boat, but the underwater slope was steeper than the ship's owners realized.

Some territories are mostly underwater, particularly those near steep cliffs.

There's underwater volcanic drama as well, with steep 600-foot walls, gaping craters, tunnel-like swim-throughs and geothermal vents that force up warm freshwater bubbles, at the Champagne dive site.

That means banks or investors in mortgage-backed securites could face losses, if many underwater mortgages were condemned at a steep discount to their face value.

"Because of the double hull construction of the submersibles you can easily pilot these advanced underwater machines to a reef pass or a steep declining wall in the ocean and explore what's going on below you".

Underwater, our site, like many that I've seen in Indonesia, was a steep drop-off reef, with a wall stretching from 15 feet below the surface to more than 200 feet.

But Yahoo paid a pretty steep premium for Tumblr, rich enough to awaken the Death Watch, which has waited, dreaming, in the underwater city of R'lyeh for the past year.