Waterboarding
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Waterboarding is a coercive interrogation technique which simulates drowning that frightens a prisoner into talking. In the technique, which dates back the Italian Inquisition, a prisoner, who is bound and gagged, has water poured over him to make him think he is about to drown. [1]
Not the same as "the submarine"
In Chile, under Pinochet, the security forces were also known to be using “the ‘submarine,’ a method that consists in submerging the person in baths full of water—sometimes mixed with excrement—until he cannot breathe,” according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights report of 1985. (“Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile,” September 9, 1985.) [2]