How would an aquatic, air-breathing species organise its spaceship interior?

It's easy to imagine how would a water-breathing aquatic race outfit its spaceship - take a normal spaceship, insulate it, fill it with oxygenated water, possibly add some enhanced turbines to pump water so that users will be able to stay at the consoles without having to swim all over all the time.

But what would air-breathing merfolk do? They can't just be thrown into water or they'll drown. Having a mix of water and air would appear to be very problematic in an interstellar environment.

I initially conceived the problem when trying to come up with a mermaids' starship, but it would also concern anthropomorphic otters, dolphins etc. - in general anything that feels the most comfortable when swimming in water but requires gaseous air to live.

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