Sentences with phrase «distance sea travel»

Not exact matches

Unlike other long - distance travelling seabirds like albatrosses, frigatebirds» feathers lack waterproof oil so they can't take a break on the sea.

Kenneth Lohmann, a neurobiologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says the findings could lead to advances in his own work on the magnetosensitivity of sea turtles, which travel long distances to their home beaches to lay eggs.

Red light travels such short distances in water that many scientists had questioned whether deep - sea animals could even see it.

Fish and other sea creatures will have to travel large distances to survive climate change, international marine scientists have warned.

Travel to different regions of the park by Panga Boat to view whales, dolphins, sea lions, shorebirds, and much more from a respectful, yet intimate, distance.

Unlike long period waves that travel unopposed over vast distances deep within the ocean, wind swell travels within a few meters of the oceans surface and is affected by opposing winds and existing sea states.

Not the distance that the sea has travelled up or down the beach.

The wave period is short because the winds creating the swell do not blow strong enough for long enough, having transferred only a small amount of energy into the sea and typically a short distance to travel before reaching coastlines.

Sala elucidates that his «intention was to subvert Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, its flow as a whole, its gravity and its pace, in order to produce the perception of a concert that has travelled a long distance, endured the high seas of a journey, making it to another shore, although not necessarily in the original form intended by its creator.

For example, nearly every kind of marine mammal, from sea lion to dolphin, travels large distances daily in a search for food.

Because of their large size, tabular icebergs often travel great distances, and their movement can affect ocean circulation, the formation of bottom water (the dense layer of water at the very bottom of the ocean) and sea ice, and the productivity of life - forms in their path.

But they can survive for long periods in salt - water without eating or drinking, so by only travelling when surface currents are favourable, they would be able to move long distances by sea.