In the geological record a drowning process is documented by various types of shallow water-to-pelagic or shallow water to mixed benthic/pelagic carbonate transitions.
The difference between using linen, rather than leather is that linen soaks easily, and the inhabitants will drown, whereas a watertight leather sack will effect death by suffocation due to lack of air (or death by a drawn-out drowning process, relative to a comparatively quick one), rather than death by drowning.
The simplistic answer is about the tragic history that we're somehow still clinging to, of mass-produced wines from Australia oversaturating the market and, in the process, drowning out appreciation of the more authentic, quality- and terroir-driven wines that are (and have always been) part of the Australian landscape.
Delegates at the convention called on Mexico, the United States and China to join forces to block the trade of totoaba, which Mexican fishermen poach with nets for an Asian market, in the process drowning the world's smallest porpoise, the vaquita.
Why, asks the drowning frog of the drowning scorpion?
Rescue the drowning victim.
Locate the drowning insect.
The court-initiated elimination of campaign finance restrictions has allowed wealthy interests to increase their stranglehold on the legislative process, drowning out the voices of ordinary people.
They also had to cross a 20 feet-wide stream in the retreat, and some drowned in the process.
Sea Shepherd's Melissa Sehgal, currently at the cove, told Reuters, "It takes up to 20 to 30 minutes for these dolphins to die, where they bleed out, suffocate or drown in the process of being dragged to the butcher house".
