The whale spit fish at the surface of the pool and then sank below and waited. The gull came down to get the fish, and the whale grabbed it.

The earthquake was approximately 50 kilometers or 30 miles below the earth's surface.

The Eisenhower presidency was much like an iceberg _ so much of it was below the surface that we didn't know the extent of it. He was the grandfather up front but he was the CEO behind the scenes.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second summersaut He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.

What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up.