The house had grown disturbed doors pestering at their frames whenever the weather drew breath, clatters on the roof, something twisting, searching overhead, and meanwhile she dreamed a little of being underwater, swimming the length of an obstacle course, both a game and an obstacle course, in some kind of terrible amusement park.

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Always swimming underwater, the black waves of her hair flowing behind her like a school of eels.

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The results, which will be reported in a forthcoming issue of Functional Ecology, suggest that echelon swimming is the underwater equivalent to carrying a child.

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Other amenities include limo service for pet pick-up and drop-off, a swimming pool, land treadmill, and an underwater therapy treadmill.

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Wannabe cosmonauts also have the opportunity to sink underwater to the ISS replica, which is submerged snugly in a swimming pool 12m deep and 23m wide.

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Officer CAMPBELL: So we're swimming over to my friend's when my wife went underwater.

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Current applications for Superbot are being developed with space exploration in mind, but Shen said the technology could be usefully applied in any environment dangerous to humans such as for search and rescue tasks in mines or underwater -- although the laboratory is still working on a morphing robot capable of swimming.

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