Sentences with phrase «drifting on rafts»

Gradually you come upon more people drifting on rafts, and they also become attached to the group.

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The raft must drift purposelessly on a shoreless sea.

To that end, new evidence supports a theory that some experts once considered unlikely: namely, that the forerunners of Madagascar's modern mammals reached the island millions of years ago by drifting from the African mainland across the Mozambique Channel on giant rafts of vegetation ripped from the shore and launched out to sea by violent storms.

We have information on the drift characteristics of many different items, from people to 55 - gallon oil drums to various kinds of vessels, such as life rafts, sea kayaks, sailboats, skiffs and refugee rafts.

Huge, drifting ice rafts (the white spot on the satellite image below) shed minerals as they melt, painting trails of nutrients, teeming phytoplankton, and chlorophyll across hundreds of kilometers of ocean.

His next flight crash - lands in the ocean, and he and two fellow survivors (including Domhnall Gleeson's stoic Captain «Phil» Phillips) drift on inflatable rafts and fend off sharks for a monumental 47 days.

He sets off on an expedition on a raft in 1947 with 6 crew and drifts across the ocean for 100 days.

For example, the net in basketball might switch to a plant and you can only score when its mouth is open, or the volleyball court could take place on rafts that slowly drift around.

I had my pack, and Mo's, and right then I hated him as he drifted downriver on the raft.

The epic slowness of the Medusa episode, survivors drifting for days on an aimless raft, has been replaced by the instant, matter - of - fact presence of the wreck: an almost too perfect illustration of philosopher Paul Virilio's intuition of the accident as the ultimate aim of speed.

«Brake» (2014) is a clash of horizontal and vertical stripes, with swaths of ochre drifting across the surface and a band of intense cadmium yellow along the upper edge, while in «Raft,» (also 2014), the vertical stripes run from top to bottom, with two horizontal sets constrained within shield - like shapes on the left and right, calling to mind Walker's fascination with Aboriginal and African art.