As a result, K-19 manages to avoid the watery grave of U-571 and Crimson Tide without ever threatening Das Boot's claim to being the submarine genre's masterpiece.

BBC: K-19 stays afloat

The undying image of dissent was Stanley Tigerman's wickedly revisionist collage of Mies van der Rohe's iconic modernist Crown Hall upended as it slides down into the ocean to a watery grave.

WSJ: When the Outrageous Became Mainstream

Fortunately as far as I could see, no one was washed away then, but later on it was quite apparent in the aftermath that there were so many others washed away to a watery grave in the deep blue sea.

CNN: Tsunami tragedy: Your e-mails

Whatever the causes of the Princess Victoria sinking to a watery grave on that stormy Saturday afternoon in January 1953, the passing of time has not erased the sorrow felt by many, whose loved ones went down with the ship.

BBC: Princess Victoria sinking remembered 60 years on

So we opted for a sombre burial in the Greenhouse, under the shade of the tallest of the mangroves, though in truth it meant a slightly watery grave after all, stuff seeping up through the muck to swallow the foot, bubbles of mud detaching and floating among us during our tiny, foot-size ritual observances.

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