submersion
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Triggered by earthquakes, underwater landslides or volcanic eruptions, they spread rapidly over long distances before releasing their energy near the coast in the form of sudden submersion and extremely powerful currents.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026
The official cause of death listed on the crew member’s death certificate, which was obtained by TMZ, states that Meadows died from drowning with probable hypothermia and submersion of his body in cold water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
What I miss most is closing my eyes at night, then opening them and it’s morning, that total submersion, yesterday’s problems wiped away like algebraic equations on a junior-high blackboard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
The prevention of drowning—which is defined as submersion in liquid that impairs breathing and, contrary to common knowledge, isn’t always fatal—is, in some ways, straightforward.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2024
The primitive submarine, which held enough air for about a thirty-minute submersion, was about seven feet long and about six feet tall.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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