The word "submersion" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a submerging or immersing in or as if in a fluid. For example, "The submersion of the submarine gave the divers a chance to explore the deep sea floor."
The absence of the polar ice cap and the submersion of Venice will have been normalised; nobody will think of these as live issues, no one will spend their time reproaching their forefathers, there'll be no moral dimension at all.
Draconian language laws have demoted English: since the 1970s, perhaps half a million anglophones have simply decamped, leaving behind a province with a dynamic new French-speaking business class and few reasons to worry about cultural submersion.
The aim of my "strategy of submersion" was chiefly to lull our opponents into a false sense of security, so improving the business environment for our future growth.
Yes, they do say that ever-closer European union, combined with devolution, could one day lead to Britain's submersion inside a Europe of regions.
The island states and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) squared off against India and forced the agreement: they face all the catastrophic results of climate change (desertification, submersion) with no promise of fossil-fuel-driven development.
His main arguments are, first, that the state has obligations which transcend the national interest and include a duty of humanity towards refugees; and, secondly, that the state has no right to exclude immigrants, except where the indigenous community is genuinely in danger of "submersion" by newcomers.
Second, all of us also need to understand that trends in the Baltic neighborhood are anything but good:Russia is again moving in a terrible and frightening direction, and the West is complaisant, certain that somehow deals can be made and everything can work out, the very attitudes that led to the submersion of the Baltic countries 70 years ago.
The multiple effects of submersion upon respiration are not easily separated from one another or clearly distinguishable from related effects of pressure upon other bodily systems.
Jet is a dense variety of lignite formed by the submersion of driftwood in the mud of the seafloor.
Logs of harder species of wood, intended for rotary-cut or sliced veneer, are first softened by submersion in hot water or treatment with steam.
A natural biological mechanism that is triggered by contact with extremely cold water, known as the mammalian diving reflex, enhances survival during submersion, thus permitting seagoing mammals to hunt for long periods underwater.
