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[Person]

How would you build a working bridge if you can't build on the edge of the map. Maybe use floors then build long bridges that stay down?

[peskyninja]

what if the history is about an adventurer searching for the gidden pearls?

[Quantumtroll]

My attempts at swimming underwater met with the problem that regardless of your swimming skill (the adventurer I tested with was 2/3 the way across the ocean, so you can be guarenteed that he was pretty high), as soon as you go below the surface, you go from "swimming" to "drowning", and there doesn't seem to be any way to avoid this except keeping your head above the waves.

Apparently dwarves are like dogs and don't know how to hold their breath under water or something.

I had a pretty epic dwarf who could hold her breath and swim underwater (or "controlled drowning") for at least twenty steps.  She was stuck underground and had to swim through harrowing underwater passages to find an exit.

... This would make for a good dungeon feature.  Submerged passages with air pockets and damp rooms full of treasure and monsters.  Hmm, must make something like this in my current fortress. Right now there's little of interest for adventurers to do...

[G-Flex]

You could theoretically traverse the underworld to get from one landmass to another, couldn't you?

[Rumrusher]

How would you build a working bridge if you can't build on the edge of the map. Maybe use floors then build long bridges that stay down?

you use embark anywhere and embark where the bridge ends and start back up.

[UberNube]

I'm pretty sure I've had an adventurer swim across oceans before. It's just slow and not very interesting.

=== HFS Spoilers incoming ===

Of course, the dwarfy way to do this is to build 2 fortresses. One on the mainland and one on the island. Dig down to hell on both of them, and then inevitably have !!FUN!!, or just abandon. Then, go to the first one as an adventurer, climb down to hell (fighting demons along the way), travel through hell to the other fort, then just climb back up. Simples!

[Barnox]

Someone really should write a story about reaching the island, it would be cool.  Or maybe post some reports on their progress.

I moved during the night and slept during the day, making sure to wake up when the ocean would be frozen. I made it pretty far before giving up.
During one night, however, I was ambushed by a shortfin mako shark. It just sat there, drowning on the ice.