As I watched, I could see her bow getting deeper and deeper in the water with the foremast sticking up above the surface whilst her stern lifted higher and higher, till it was right out of the water. Charles Lightoller
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page. Howard Nemerov
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. Markus Zusak
Five billion people could drown in Loch Ness, and no one would show above the surface. It is a big lake. [...] As of the 1960s, there were over 9,000 sightings of the Loch Ness Monster. Today, there have been over 11,000 such sightings. Kent Hovind
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface. Al Gore