Or see some of the submarine sights from a glass-bottomed boat run by Sea Quest (01720 422511).

Other excursions are possible - for instance, in a glass-bottomed boat that charges $15 a person per hour, but that we never did try out.

Bangaram owns a glass-bottomed boat, from which I saw a variety of fish.

A plane could be turned into a high-tech glass-bottomed boat, for instance, with the floor a projection screen displaying images of the ground below.

The glass-bottomed boats are not especially stable, so if you're susceptible to sea-sickness, don't go on days of heavy swell.

You don't have to get into the water: you can also view these slightly scary-looking fish from a glass-bottomed boat.

To anyone sitting in a darkened room over calm water it would be like staring into the depths from a glass-bottomed boat.

If you are fascinated by tropical fish, the glass-bottomed boat is best (short of scuba diving).

He leaped to the end of the dock, where the school's glass-bottomed boat lay moored to the power takeoff.

But as the glass-bottomed boat angled out toward the passage through the reef, they maintained their distance from the beach.