No one had ever
No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements. Esther Williams
Underwater
When I was a
When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero. Enric Sala
This was a nightmare
This was a nightmare scenario for any bodyguard: stuck in the middle of a transparent tube, several miles underwater, with a murdering band of fugitives at one end and an enthralled but still highly skilled police officer at the other. Eoin Colfer
I WAS a mermaid
I WAS a mermaid in my past-life! I definitely was. I don’t know why I’m obsessed with them that much, which is why I think that somehow in my past-life I must have just lived underwater or something. Maybe I was a fish or a dolphin, but I do believe in mermaids. Ella Henderson
When I was six
When I was six I wanted to be a ballerina. By the time I was eight I was fairly sure this plan wasn’t panning out. I began aspiring to be an \”Aquamaid\” at a resort called \”Aquarena Springs\” in my hometown of San Marcos: Aquamaids got to wear mermaid tails and feed milk bottles underwater … Read more
People are giving birth
People are giving birth underwater now. They say it’s less traumatic for the baby because it’s under water. But it’s certainly more traumatic for the other people in the pool. Elayne Boosler
Most people exist in
Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It’s sort of like when you’re underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can’t see very far and everything is distorted. Frederick Lenz
The balance and patience
The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding … if you’re out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don’t land on soft snow. It’s usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you’re tumbling underwater. Frederick Lenz
Everyone knows the phenomenon
Everyone knows the phenomenon of trying to hold your breath underwater – how at first it’s alright and you can handle it, and then as it gets closer and closer to the time when you must breathe, how urgent the need becomes, the lust and the hunger to breathe. And then the panic sets in … Read more
Maybe i would become
Maybe i would become a mermaid… i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a doliphin friend. He would have merry eyes and thick flesh of a god. My fingernails would be tiny shells and my skin … Read more