talk under water

I needed lungs only for talking, and who wants to talk under water?

To the Padreco it seemed as though he had been talking under water and that he had not been heard.

The whole conversation had a slow, dreamlike, heavy quality to it, as if they were trying to talk under water; as if a great weight filled them all.

And as a gift for his friendship and help, the scientifically much advanced Swarn Nagari people fitted a tiny instrument in Dhruva's body, which enables him to breathe and talk under water.