Navy Seals?

the problem is that you start swimming as soon as your waist goes under the water level, maybe that "zone" should be changed to your weapon instead. that would fix the problem.

u can shoot from underwater! just learn how to hipshoot and get every damn sniper in atoll while they cant see u all u got to do is not pressing any buttons for 1 sec and u can shoot.... hehe, kinda sneaky ey!

Yeah. That's why people carry three weapons. They don't care about realism/fairness, it's all about winning and killing the other guy, making him sit out the whole round, etc...

Firing weapons underwater bug? Oh ****ing great. There goes the fun of underwater knife fights, which I might add, are freaking awesome fun!

ok, that bug needs to be fixed.

anyways, the first time I noticed you could no longer fire guns underwater was in atol, and the enemy was coming at me with a knife. I tried to switch to knife, but couldn't switch to it, kept getting the grenade. since he was almost within knifing distance, i thought what the heck, and threw the grenade, blowing us both up.

harpoon gun?
grappling hook, I actually wouldn't mind them in the long run, if there was limit to one a team, I believe this is an impossible feature but to actually use a grapple wire and it stay there, or hooked if you will to something and players can climb up it or slide across it, is very realistic, I just think its impossible for the UT engine.
Plus if there going for the massive seal team feeling, or similar, they will need NVG,moving boats, and not to mention all the other water gear. If they somehow created a map or level with all the players in scubagear,h2o tanks, and fins,guns,etc It could be very appealing, not to mention possible for the fact they have made it so servers choose the skins for maps. But as for now I have no clue period on anything for realism for certain areas. But uh, for the underwater shooting, I would leave it as is, or try to adjust the process of coming up from the water, it always seems to be noisy and loud even though your going very,very slow.

i found out by being killed by some1 hip shooting from underwater while i was sniping..... really weird, i once tried it and it looks so weird firing a bolt acion rifle from under water

Well that sux. Half the fun of TheFlood was killing unsuspecting victims from underwater. Well I suppose. Now the knife has a purpose.
Jaymian