then you both hold on as the stern slowly falls back deep into the sea , smothering the propeller with the bow still down and the ship squats down into the seawater , the water bulging out from under the hull and lifting the wave to run flush with the hangar deck and the hull hums low for a moment , deep in the sea , and then lifts so slowly from the ocean , like a cow stumbling out of a pond , and water drips from stanchions and the catwalks and the gun tubs .