Valentin Pikul. The Moonzund (№ 24773)

In fact, what it's like to fly upside down in the abyss of boiling water, spreading the floor of the overcoat, and the water immediately around you powerfully and brutally, and the last glimmer of consciousness will say that now, past you, past your destiny is a ship, not yours, outwardly indifferent to your death...