Sentences with phrase «shallow seas more»

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But with climate change, the WAP is experiencing rapid regional warming, with fewer days each year of fast ice — letting the icebergs into the shallows more often, where they carve huge gashes through the habitat of the colorful, tentacled invertebrate animals carpeting the sea floor.

They also found that sharks used powered swimming more often than a gliding motion to move through the ocean, contrary to what scientists had previously thought, and that deep - sea sharks swim in slow motion compared to shallow water species.

Some of the shallow - water seeps are likely to be in now - submerged areas that were methane - producing wetlands during the most recent ice age, when sea levels were more than 100 metres lower than they are today.

As a new writer, your goal isn't to drown in that sea but to rise to the surface by swimming in more shallow waters.

Known as one of the most dangerous bodies of water in the world for its shallow depth, volatile weather, extremely cold sea temperatures, and short tight waves that pack more power than deep sea waves; a winter crossing was akin to suicide.

To the west of the town are the quieter, more natural beaches, like Faros Beach which is ideal for families with young children as the sea is sheltered, shallow and calm.

I'm probably more careful than most people in that my shuffles are very exaggerated and if I'm surfing, I'll usually ride by board on my belly for as shallow as possible to avoid stepping on a stingray, sea urchin or sharp reef.

Named for its characteristic reef development, this dive site features a profile with two distinct reef zones over a distance of about 800 ft.. A shallow reef extends from sea level to 40 ft and a deeper reef begins at 70 ft, extending to more than 100 ft at the wall.

Shallow or deep, you'll find shrimp, lobster, octopus, eels, fish, sea turtles and more occupying the vivid world below.

Tourists who are more interested in snorkeling in the shallow waters of the island can spot in their aquatic habitat parrotfish, puffer fish, sea anemone, damsels, angelfish and starfish.

What's even more amazing is that the water is totally crystal clear that makes the sea look shallow when it's actually really deep.

In the Olbia area, there are more fabulous beaches with water - based activities for the older kids, and shallow seas for the little ones to splash in.

A lot more energy is taken up by shallow seas if there is no ice floating on top, warming the sea.

While the global picture of corals is gloomy in both the shallow and deep seas, the overall evidence is strong that marine protected areas protect not only corals, but the associated biological diversity that they support — fishes, invertebrates, marine mammals, seabirds, and more.

One could see these differences of sea level going either way — either the shallow hydrates were kept more stable than they are now, or perhaps they actually did get released more than we have yet ascertained.

Ocean waters around Antarctica have warmed steadily for the past 50 years, but in addition to that, the region's shallow seas are also heating up, more quickly than others.

Seventy - five percent (75 %) of the sea over the shelf is shallow water, less than 50 metres deep, and consequently more immediately exposed to warming trends.

The world's shallow seas probably increase the proportion of surface water and thus make my 0.4 C figure an underestimate, so perhaps something between 0.5 - 1 degree might more accurate.

Researchers have determined that the «shallow» glaciers that edge Greenland's coast actually stretch approximately five dozen miles inland - potentially contributing more to rising sea levels than previously thought.

«shallow coral were increasingly vulnerable to deadly desiccation during more extreme sea level drops when warm waters slosh toward the Americas during an El Niño.»

I think there are several AGW factors & other natural factors that go into higher Mexican Gulf SST, and we need to consider all of them — more shallow waters being heated more, & more rapidly than deep seas; the slowing of the thermo - haline ocean conveyor from fresh water pouring into the North Atlantic, leaving hot waters more stuck in place in the south.

Greens think it is «sustainable» to uglify scenic hills with whining wind towers, power poles, transmission lines and access roads, and to clutter pleasant estuaries and shallow seas with more bird - slicing turbines.

For example, the argument that follows very substantially from the extent of continental shelf that there is within the Arctic Basin and, therefore, the particular relationship that warming on that relatively shallow sea has on trapped methane - for example, the emergence of methane plumes in that continental shelf, apparently in quite an anomalous way - leading possibly to the idea that there may be either tipping points there or catastrophic feedback mechanisms there, which could then have other effects on things, such as more stabilised caps like the Greenland ice cap and so on.