In that six minutes the ship had traveled another 1.3 miles east of the deep shipping channel toward rock submerged 50 feet underwater.
He might have been farther back if his tee shot on the par-3 eighth hole hadn't bounced off a rock submerged in a water hazard and onto a greenside slope.
The island was originally created when G. A. Furgason, a developer of the Homosassa area, hired a dragline operator to create the island from a pile of rocks submerged during high tide in order to keep boats from running aground.
It was like a great black rock, partly submerged, glistening with the swamp water and crawling with the flies.
Although the quarry has not been identified, it has been suggested that the Gear, a rock now submerged half a mile from the shore at Penzance, may be the site.
Stewart benefited from what may become the most fortunate carom in Open history when his tee shot on the par-3 eighth hole bounced onto dry land after hitting a rock submerged in a water hazard.
She watched from the sick-room the snow whirl past, like flocks of shadows in haste, flying on some final mission out to a leaden inalterable sea, beyond the final whiteness of the curving shore, and the snow-speckled blackness of the rocks half submerged.
The spill occurred at 10:30 P.M. Friday after the 299-foot barge, the Hygrade 42, rammed into a reef of solid rock submerged only five feet below the river's surface, rupturing three of the vessel's eight holding tanks.
In a volcanic eruption in 1830 this rock submerged, and the surviving Great Auks moved to a nearby island called Eldey, which was accessible from one side, and were wiped out by man.
Their god Huitzilopochtli had commanded them to find an eagle devouring a snake, perched atop a cactus that grew on a rock submerged in a lake.