I am a huge dumb nerd so I just went and proved this for myself with a bathtub and a bottle of Red Guitar. By pulling the cork with my teeth and immediately folding my thumb over the lips of the bottle, I managed to leak only the merest iota of wine. If I had the clearance to stand upright instead of kneeling there, like a moron, dunking my head and holding the bottle sideways, then the only leak would have been from the margin of air at the top of the container.
Having replaced the seal with my finger, it was then no effort to simply wrap my lips around that of the bottle's, extract my thumb, and admit air from my lungs to equalize the pressure and allow a couple of sips. You can do this yourself without getting your head wet or finding a beverage with a cork.
So my answers is yes, this is a trivial exercise. Even asking for a DEX check would be too much. Only a small child would have a particularly difficult time with this. You might as well ask for a STR check to extract your foot from your shoe.
You may be wondering, "Eikre. Did you seriously get up and run a bath just to have citational highground over the armchair theorists?" All I have to say for myself is that there is a distinct possibility that the sangria I drank in the course of the experiment was not exactly the first sip of the day.
Unless there are some secret rules written away in the DMG or PHB that details how water affects magical and elemental occurrences, the fireball should occur normally.
I think earlier editions had rules where lightning would spread out in an AOE (area of effect), but as far as I know that doesn't exist in 5e. This isn't to say fire would spread in a larger AOE under water, but to show that there have been situations where magic is affected by water.
But seeing as the spell doesn't detail anything happening if the spell is submerged or the area the spell occurs is covered in water, the spell should progress as normally.
A bright streak flashes from your pointing finger to a point you choose within range and then blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a dexterity saving throw. A target takes 8d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
The fire spreads around corners. It ignites flammable objects in the area that aren't being worn or carried.
The good news for the goblin is he will be taking half damage. PHB 198 says...
Creatures and objects that are fully immersed in
water have resistance to fire damage.
Outside of that fireball seems to still work in full.
What happens to the water though? It just had fire flood all around the inside of it.
Rules as written: It doesn't say or really hint or imply that anything would happen. With this in mind I'd say the water is still there. Perhaps it bubbled violently and got a bit steamy. Though with how brief the fire lingers in an area I imagine the water would stay. This is more of an opinion but I base it around that the PHB provides no insight on what would happen.
You could consider the water 'ignitable' and that it steams away but that's a choice as DM.
Official ruling to Does Fireball evaporate water?:
Nothing in the rules causes a fireball to vaporize water. Magic ≠ physics. DMs may apply whatever magical/scientific logic they like. — Jeremy E. Crawford
Best Answer
Nothing, unless you choose to swim to the surface.
The description of the Ring of Water Walking states:
It simply gives you the ability to walk on the surface of water as if it were solid ground. It doesn't force you to do anything, and doesn't force anything to happen to you. Since you're underwater, there's no liquid surface to walk on from your present position.
Of course, you can swim to the surface of the water. From that point, you would be able to stand on and move on the surface of the water as if it were solid ground.