Representative Dante B. Fascell, the late Democratic congressman, was persuaded to join the effort, and began to push for a law to turn the island and its underwater acres into a federal park.
Susannah Nevison, once an avid swimmer, has given up trips to the pool, along with "pretty much all forms of extraneous movement" because the weather has turned her pristine underwater escape into "a water-filled, people-packed subway car of a pool".
In the original BioShock, Rapture changes from an underwater utopia into a nightmarish battlefield.
These contributions have built Underwater Audio into a successful business that provides jobs, tax revenue, and a better life for swimmers.
"A state cannot transform an underwater feature into an island by building on top of it," Reichler said at a seminar organised by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"Turning an underwater rock into an airfield simply does not afford the rights of sovereignty or permit restrictions on international air or maritime transit," said Carter, warning that China may find decades of dusty agreements far harder to transform than the sea itself.
Imagine being able to travel underwater, into space, on the Amazon River, through a rainforest all without leaving your desk.
In 1987, a New York Thruway bridge near Amsterdam, N.Y., also had a clean bill of health, but inspectors had never gone underwater into the Schoharie Creek to look at the bridge's footings, where flood waters had scoured the concrete base.
I was pulled downriver and underwater into whirlpools.
A Canadian scuba diver was collared for smuggling more than eight pounds of marijuana -- underwater -- into the United States, police say.
