Sentences with phrase «sea coast at»

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Left: Third Class Petty Officer Jack Keep on watch at sea aboard the USS Gatling, off the coast of North Korea, 1953.

«Trust in West Coast ports is at an all - time low, and the perception of supply chain risk is at an all - time high,» said Peter Tirschwell, chief maritime analyst at the JOC Group, a supplier of U.S. sea - borne trade data.

Placencia is a charming little seaside town found at the tip of a peninsula off the coast of mainland Belize.It's fast becoming Belize «s most desirable location as it fronts the gorgeous Caribbean Sea to the east and a resplendent freshwater lagoon, full of wildlife and with a view of the gorgeous Maya mountain chain, to the west.

The United States canceled leave for army troops at Fort Bragg and mobilized thousands of others for land, sea, and air maneuvers off the coast of Nicaragua.

Researchers at the Mississippi - Alabama Sea Grant Consortium have taken part in a two - year study, and found that microscopic plastics are now increasingly common in the area where their study took place on the Gulf Coast.

Hammered by the wind and sea, at least 24 ships were driven ashore on the Irish coast where many of the survivors were killed by Elizabeth's troops.

Their ships buffeted by a tremendous storm at sea, the Trojan company has made it to shore on the coast of North Africa, where the new colony of Carthage is being founded by a group of immigrants from Tyre and their queen, Dido.

One of at least six Marys that followed Jesus as a disciple, she was distinguished from the others through identification with her hometown of Magdala, a fishing village off the coast of the Sea of Galilee.

I live in Alaska — here we see thousands of bald eagles at a time along the sea coast.

The place of that event and center of the southern Italian peperoncino cult is Diamante at the Costa dei Cedri, a pleasantly undeveloped part of Italy's west coast with its clear sparkling seas.

We're at sea level on the East Coast and I only let it sit the minimum amount of time, but they turned out totally awesome.

One of 5 salt islands on the Louisiana coast, Avery Island stands at 163 feet above mean sea level and is surrounded by low - lying swamps and marshes.

We'd picnic on the beach, followed by a salty sea air walk along the coast, ending up at a pub for a supper of fish and chips.

The Ministry will commence the construction of Sea Defence Projects at Axim, Cape Coast, Ningo - Prampram, Shama and Mensa Guinea in Accra.

November 2008 Scotland gains powers over for all planning and nature conservation matters at sea up to 200 miles from the coast.

On the east coast, they have grown familiar with the constant depredations of the sea, eating away at their homes and their livelihoods.

The researchers determined that the earthquakes at Abu Dabbab extend in a line from the coast into the Red Sea, «and the seismicity pattern is arc - shaped in depth, confined to the dome - like structure of the rigid igneous body that formed during the Precambrian era» above an active fault, El Khrepy said.

In June 2000, Project Deep Spill released hydrocarbons into the sea off the coast of Norway at a depth of about 800 metres.

Although the researchers do not at this time feel there is any connection between these features and tsunami hazards, «they may provide important insights into the development of the canyons and help us understand the role of changing sea level in the evolution of the Atlantic coast,» he said.

Yet on my recent visit to this archipelago where sea lions rule the coast, marine iguanas and crabs congregate on shoreline rocks, birds display oddly colored feet and amusing faces, and the hotel rooms (where they exist) face away from the sea (if there are windows at all), I found that despite the many peculiarities, I initially couldn't pinpoint precisely what makes the Galápagos so special.

But lots of historic villages along the coast are at risk of tumbling into the sea.

«No longer water under the bridge, statistics yields new data on sea levels: Untraditional approach expected to save lives, businesses, and communities along East Coast shows rate accelerating at a pace in contrast to previously accepted data.»

But at this site and a few even older ones, no portion of the ship itself survives, and it is hard to determine whether the pottery came from a wreck, was simply thrown overboard, or washed into the sea from the nearby coast.

A tsunami alert was issued for the US west coast, and then cancelled, after a major earthquake struck at sea off the coast of Alaska

The measurements are made by means of buoys, five of which are in place in the Bay of Biscay, three off the Galician coast and two out at sea.

The son of a ship's captain, Raffles — who actually was born at sea, off the coast of Jamaica — dreamt of a British maritime empire throughout South Asia, an «Eastern insular Empire» that would provide new markets for English cotton and woolen textiles, and a profitable supply of coffee and sugar for Europe.

But even out at sea, Irene's 50 - mile radius of hurricane - force winds and 205 - mile radius of tropical storm winds could still batter the East Coast.

Not all orcas are slaughtering sea mammals — at least not on North America's West Coast, where killer whales have been studied closely by scientists.

Rise and Shine: At 1,530 feet above sea level, Cadillac Mountain is the highest point on the East Coast.

To see how acidification might affect one deepwater creature, marine biologist Taewon Kim and colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing, California, used a robot submarine to vacuum up some deep - sea hermit crabs (Pagurus tanneri) that live off the coast of California at depths of 900 meters.

Whistleblower crew members had supplied authorities with photographs and video footage of three ships dumping contaminants, such as sludge and oily waste, far out at sea, taken before the vessels underwent inspections along the coasts of New Jersey, Delaware and California.

Storing CO2 Under the Sea North Sea, 150 Miles off the Norway Coast — The latest, greatest hope for reducing greenhouse emissions is to capture carbon dioxide at the source and bury it underground.

The research program he manages, on Herschel Island in the Canadian Beaufort Sea, is at an important site for monitoring erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts, which make up a third of Earth's shores.

It rose out of the sea at a spot located about 350 feet (100 m) from the coast, he said.

For over 20 years, Smith and his fellow researchers have studied animals living on the abyssal plain at Station M — a deep - sea research site about 220 kilometers (140 miles) off the Central California coast.

Farther north, along the Holderness coast in North Humberside, the soft clay cliffs are eaten up by the sea at an average of more than 2 metres a year.

A unique video has captured a surprise swarm of red crabs on the sea floor at the Hannibal Bank seamount off the Pacific coast of Panama.

That analysis was carried out for two reactors at a plant in Ohi on the Japan Sea coast and submitted for review to Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA), which concluded they had passed.

Michael Russell at Villanova University in Pennsylvania and his colleagues studied purple sea urchins from the west coast of North America.

The results, presented here at the AAAS annual meeting on 14 February, showed that when the sea surface warmed off the coast of Peru in 1997 - 98, during El Niño, there was a marked increase in rates of cholera infection in Lima and nearby cities.

Garner's team also accounted for the fact that sea level rises at different rates around the world, and will be particularly high on the US East Coast.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have studied new ways of measuring sea level that could become important tools for testing climate models and for investigating how the sea level along the world's coasts is affected by climate change.

Along parts of the California coast, homes and cities are right at the ocean's edge and vulnerable to sea level rise and coastal erosion.

Premier Anna Bligh, who launched the initiative at Sea World's polar bear shores on the Gold Coast, said climate change was everyone's responsibility.

Today he is mainly busy at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels with the data gathering and treatment in relation to the monitoring of marine renewables implementation offshore the North Sea Belgian coast.

The world's largest stockpile of plutonium lives at a nuclear reprocessing plant in England near the coast of the Irish Sea.

Increased sea levels decrease this slope, slow the drainage, and exacerbate flooding, slightly inland and right at the coast.

With regards to being too iodine laden, I buy an inexpensive shaker of kelp at the health - food store of Main Coast brand's Sea Seasonings.

Maine Coast Sea Vegetables Sprinkles — You can find them online at Amazon or your local health food store.

It was love at first sight about a year ago, I was on the Amalfi Coast (see why here) in a gray and rainy day in February and there, under a gray sky in an old house perched on a rock I fell in love with the force of the sea, the blue of the waves and the slow flight of the gulls, I fell in love as rarely happens, a strong and lasting love that I still have, and that will be a part of me forever.