Sentences with phrase «pacific ocean crossing»

Aside from startups, his passion is sailing, and he has logged more than 10,000 coastal and offshore nautical miles with his longest sail of a 22 - day non-stop Pacific Ocean crossing to French Polynesia.

Not exact matches

Of nearly 300 living animal and protist species documented on the debris, which crossed the Pacific Ocean following Japan's destructive 2011 tsunami, researchers analyzed in detail 237 species, which include larger invertebrates and two fish.

The more heat in the Pacific, the bigger the El Niño, and right now, 150 metres below the surface, a ball of warm water is crossing that ocean.

The wave - powered sub Papa Mau not only set a record while crossing the Pacific Ocean autonomously, it also studied rogue waves and other marine phenomena invisible to eyes in the sky

The West Coast can rely on a steady stream of dust particles from Africa and Asia — it takes between seven and 10 days for the dust to cross the Pacific Ocean, Prather added, and dust can circumnavigate the globe in a matter of weeks — but what the western United States has been missing during this drought is the other main part of the equation: clouds that the dust can seed.

Volatile organic compounds, carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides from Asian cars and industry mix in the atmosphere as they cross the Pacific Ocean and convert in sunlight into ozone, a main ingredient in smog, Jaffe explains.

The next solar eclipse takes place on July 22, 2009, starting in India and crossing through Asia and Japan into the western Pacific Ocean.

Bluefins in the Pacific, on the other hand, feed off California for a few years before crossing the ocean to their breeding grounds off Japan — where a single one can fetch $ 175,000 on the Tokyo market.

If that were true, these systems would have to cross the African continent before tracking across the Indian ocean, the Malay Archipelago, the Pacific — perhaps stopping off for a rest in Hawaii — before finally crossing the Yucatán peninsula and arriving in the Caribbean.

HUNDREDS of marine animals crossed the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the US.

Several scientists are poring over data recorded by a robotic submarine that set a distance record for autonomous vehicles when it crossed the Pacific Ocean late last year.

For most of the last 2.6 million years, the cold temperatures and low nutrient levels of the Arctic have deterred fish species from crossing between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

«Faria et al have produced the first detailed analysis of the evolution of Zika virus as it crossed the Pacific Ocean and entered the Americas.

Barbara Morgan's exploration of space continues the great American adventure and quest for knowledge that led Lewis and Clark to cross the Rockies and row down the salmon filled Columbia River in 1804 to reach the Pacific Ocean at what is now the southern tip of Washington State.

After a failed suicide attempt, terminal cancer patient Mark Briggs embarks on a cross country trek with his three best friends in the hope of seeing the Pacific Ocean for the first time.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, funded by Morris Animal Foundation, first confirmed that phocine distemper virus had crossed from the Atlantic Ocean through the Arctic Ocean into sea otters in Pacific waters.

For an easy crossing to mainland Fiji, Awesome Adventures Fiji offer a ferry route across the South Pacific Ocean from Botaira Beach Resort Port to Denarau Port.

Expect to pay 180,000 miles for an itinerary that includes seven stopovers and one crossing each over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

The Discovery Trail on Washington's Long Beach Peninsula crosses a broad Pacific beach, grassy dunes, seaside forests and postcard - ready ocean bluffs.

Day 4 Sailing onward, cross the famed passage, named after Sir Francis Drake - a body of water that marks the intersection of the cold Antarctic with the warmer Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

With no roads to cross, you can step out of the resort grounds right on to the golden sands of Palm Beach and dive in to the sparkling waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Heading north to Bangsal small hinterland for crossing to Gili Trawangan, famous with its sparkling pristine waters from Indian and Pacific ocean.

Six years ago Ryan crewed on a 46 - foot sailboat «Hokimai» for three months from Baja, Mexico crossing the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia.

A reverse herringbone business - class and spacious first - class suites provide some of the best award redemption opportunities for those crossing the Pacific Ocean.

For true travel aficionados, there is even a slightly more expensive «Around the World» option that gives you a maximum of five stopovers and one crossing for both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The Museum's found collection of historical landscape painting from a «super region» that crosses continents spanning from Alaska, Patagonia, and from the Rocky Mountains of the American West to across the Pacific Ocean to Australia.

Crossing the Pacific Ocean takes approximately twenty - three days, during which time the artist will be considered «in residence» aboard the vessel.

According to a recent study, this species will be among dozens to take advantage of warming Arctic Ocean waters to cross over into the Pacific Ocean.

He noticed that the moist trade winds that cross the Isthmus of Panama and drop rain into the Pacific Ocean carry fresh water out of the Atlantic, leaving behind saltier water.

These sources state that coal power plant particulates cross the Pacific ocean in ~ one week:

Earlier this fall, I crossed the Pacific Ocean from the island nation of Kiribati, which I am privileged to serve as President, to visit the United States.

In 1902, the Commercial Pacific Cable Company began work laying down the first telegraph line to cross the Pacific Ocean, connecting San Francisco to Asia, via Honolulu, Midway, Guam, Manila, and China.

At a Univ brunch on Park Avenue last month, I met a bright young English blogger, Roz Savage, who is blogging from a rowing boat, as she crosses the Pacific in a bid to be the first to row the largest ocean in the world.

A new pedestrian bridge connects the south and north park parcels, provides views of the park, Civic Center and Pacific Ocean, as well as decreases the impact of pedestrian traffic crossing the busy San Miguel Avenue.