Please help me identify this spider

Hi, Hooah.I'm an arachnologist. I wish I had seen this thread sooner, so I could have showed off. I was going to call it an araneid (orb-weaver) and suggest a couple genera, including Larinioides. Orb-weavers aren't really my strong suit, so I wasn't sure: it's good that you got someone else on it.It's weird that you found it underwater: it must have gotten knocked off a tree or something. But, it's not dangerous. It would probably hurt if it bit you, but orb-weavers aren't known for biting a lot, and it certainly wouldn't cause any medical problems.

Hi, arachnophilia. I don't usually get a lot of people asking about orb weavers: usually, it's a wolf spider or agelenid funnel weaver that somebody thought was a brown recluse, because it's brown.But, orb weavers are usually highly visible (because they build big, spiral webs up in open air where people can see them), and they are often brightly colored and/or oddly shaped. So, they tend to arouse more curiosity than other spiders.