Talk:Submarine Princess/@comment-26974884-20151206145138/@comment-175.156.32.28-20151206224423

Not so sure. "水面に" just means "to the water surface". I.e. I am rising to the water surface. Not to some heavenly water body.

I think the meaning is more of a submarine being forced to surface. In a lot of passive-aggressive ASW situations, especially during the cold war, submarines which were caught in enemy territory or international waters were sometimes forced to surface after being found and harassed out by surface ships. Surface ships would often drop underpowered training depth charges near/onto the target submarine to warn them to surface, and then escort them out of the friendly waters. The intention being to not provoke a war by an act but to control one's territory..

So instead of thinking of it as "sinking", it's more like forcing a surfacing and asking them to leave.