Underwater vs. in water wording for shallow cases

Tiny terminology thing but it keeps mattering, somehow, because words are a punishment.

When the hoof and lower leg are submerged, some members say underwater and some say in water. Outside readers hear underwater and imagine the whole animal below the surface, which is not what most reports mean.

Proposal: use submerged for body parts, in water for the whole subject, underwater only when the whole relevant subject is below the surface or the witness uses that wording directly.

This still leaves room for the land/water sequence without making us sound like we are hiding a scuba cow. before someone says it: no, scuba cow is not a tier.