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{{quote|I'm sorry if I alarmed you. It would appear that this form isn't ''buoyant''.}}
== Film
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: The Curse of the Black Pearl'': The undead pirates walk along the ocean floor to reach Commodore Norrington's ships undetected.
** Earlier in the film, Jack and Will commandeer a skiff, turn it upside down and trap air inside it, and walk along the bottom of the harbor.
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* [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Data]] does this in ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]''.
* Apparently, a deleted scene from ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]] Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan'' would've shown Jason doing this.
== Literature ==
* Golems in the [[Discworld]], being automata, can do this. When [[Boxed Crook]] Moist von Lipwig is assigned one as his parole officer in ''[[
** Zombies do the same, as Windle Poons just walks ashore after attempting to drown himself, and Reg Shoe contemplates walking all the way back to Ankh-Morpork along the bottom of the sea if their ship is sunk.
* [[Larry Niven]] and Steven Barnes' novel ''Dream Park''. When the party escapes pursuing zombies by taking a small boat, the zombies walk into the water after them. The players forget that zombies don't need to breathe, and the zombies walk along the bottom and eventually grab one of the party members and drag her underwater.
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* In ''[[Ciaphas Cain|Caves of Ice]]'', a force of Necrons manage to wade through several levels worth of caves ([[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|of ice]]) that have been flooded with pure promethium (i.e., tank and flamethrower fuel). This does not help them ''in the slightest'' when it [[Stuff Blowing Up|explodes]].
* Dortmunder and Kelp plan to do this in an attempt to retrieve a cache of stolen cash from under a lake in ''Drowned Hopes'' by [[Donald Westlake]]. It fails as they discover the inherent bouyancy of the human body.
== Live-Action TV ==
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== Toys ==
* Many videos and advertisements for [[Bionicle]]'s Mahri Nui storyline showed the characters walking around on the ocean floor, however, the books, comics and serials showed them swimming.
== Tabletop Games ==
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** In another episode, [[Implacable Man|Principal Skinner]] presumable crosses a river this way chasing Bart after Bart skipped school.
* In ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]],'' Metallo is seen doing this after apparently sinking to his doom.
== Real Life ==
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