View distance while under water is much too short

OpenMW daily builds

ubuntu 14.04

Using Distant Land with very long view distance set in cfg file (basically I can see a bit of Solsteim off in the distance)

The distance the player is able to see while underwater is too short. The player is almost blind. It is shorter than the view distance under water running vanilla Morrowind on a Windows system. I understand that in game it makes sense for the water to be a bit cloudy but I should at least be able to see the bottom of the bit of water outside the customs office like in vanilla Morrowind. I imagine some people would like to be able to adjust this to make the water as crystal clear as using distant land above water which might be good for playing as an argonian.

(RM-1511 from redmine: created on 2014-06-16 by David Billiot, , closed on 2015-11-01 by scrawl ., relates #2907 (closed))