Sentences with phrase «frigid waters of»

Dedicated to physical fitness, he runs and cycles regularly while indulging in the occasional winter dip in the frigid waters of Lake Ontario.

We may even remember where we where when we saw the improbable images of US Air flight 1549 floating in the frigid waters of the Hudson River on the west side of Manhattan on January 15, 2009.

«Resting proud on 24 metres of water, we found HMS Terror — 203 years old, it is perfectly preserved in the frigid waters of the Northwest Passage,» Arctic Research Foundation spokesman Adrian Schimnowski says in the video.

industry sources confided that while GE's 4MW turbine is an impressive machine, it has yet to prove itself in the rugged offshore environment and will be especially hard - pressed to perform up to expectations in the brutal and frigid waters of Lake Erie.

Gray Whale The gray whale migrates 12,000 miles round - trip from the frigid waters of the Arctic where it feeds to the tepid waters of the US and Mexico where it breeds.

Every winter, the North Pacific Humpback Whales migrate from the frigid waters of Alaska to mate, give birth, and bask in the warm seas of the Hawaiian islands, enjoying their own sort of tropical vacation.

The fluffy water - resistant coat of Newfies had a specific purpose: to help protect them from the frigid waters of Newfoundland where these dogs were utilized for retrieving the nets of fishermen.

Unlike other spaniels, this breed was not developed to flush birds but rather to jump into the frigid waters of Ireland to retrieve dead or wounded wildfowl.

It's a spectacular piece of work, from director James Cameron's plotting of the story between past and present (though not his direction of Billy Zane) to the stunning execution of the ship's slow descent into the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Almost exactly 104 years ago today, the RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner, struck an iceberg and sank into the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, dooming over 1,500 passengers and crew out of 2,224 total people aboard.

On January 15, 2009, the world witnessed the «Miracle on the Hudson» when Captain «Sully» Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard.

NASA tests a new underwater robot in the frigid waters of Antarctica.

In the frigid waters of the Arctic and Antarctic, fish have evolved to survive 28.5 - degree temperatures that would literally freeze the blood of less well - adapted creatures.

Then in early October, as they plowed into the frigid waters of Long Island Sound, they found disastrous proof of the rumors: pot after pot of dead lobsters, and others so weak they died a day or two after arriving on land.

The official cause of death for the crew of the Titanic was drowning, but hypothermia from the frigid waters of the North Atlantic is what killed them.

Tanned and fit, he swam daily in the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay until he was sidelined by a recent illness.

«While transporting Breivik to prison via an aircraft, the cabin door suddenly opened and he fell 30,000 ft.. He did not survive the frigid waters of the North Atlantic.»

This picture, taken in February 2011 by EO - 1 satellite, shows ice in the frigid water of the northwest Pacific swirling around the snow - covered island.

Not exact matches

Among other things, the founders have donated portions of online orders to nonprofits, organized volunteers to help the homeless during frigid winters, and built a well in Nigeria to increase clean water access for hibiscus farmers.

The US and British navies have shown off their ability to operate under Arctic ice, and Russia has boasted of its ability to track foes in frigid Arctic waters as well.

So we decided we would be the first people to cross that frigid body of water — in a rowboat.

While some of the more adventuresome passengers took a quick dip in Baikal's frigid water, the dining - car staff unloaded portable grills from the baggage car and prepared a shashlyk feast for our evening meal outdoors: pork and chicken shashlyk, grilled vegetables, fresh tomatoes, salted herring with onions, and an assortment of Russian - style salads, along with plenty of vodka and wine to ward off the chill.

The mood coming out of the visiting Alhambra boys water polo team's postgame huddle was just as frigid.

When these factors are coupled with Professor Teachout's proposed energy tax, which could cost Upstate New Yorkers upwards of $ 1,700, the results will be like a dose of frigid water on many struggling small businesses and homeowners.

On the night of Feb. 16, Paladino's men polished off a case of Tyskie Polish Ale before rowing across the frigid waters in the shadow of the barricaded Peace Bridge.

As the city hailed the flight crew involved in the near - miraculous water landing of a jetliner and lauded the rescuers of its passengers from the frigid Hudson River, state officials...

Cloud formations made of ammonia, hydrocarbons and water swirl in a frigid soup of hydrogen and helium.

The dayside of a planet close to an M dwarf, however, might become so hot that water escapes to space; on the frigid nightside, the atmosphere could freeze to the surface.

They are made of water ice, which on the frigid satellite should be about as resistant to erosion as terrestrial minerals.

In this episode: A frigid nebula; Asteroid defense; Dating the arrival of water, A burst of solar flares, and the Tilted Kepler - 56 system

Biological oceanographer Victoria Fabry of California State University at San Marcos has spent years studying pteropods, thumbnail - size creatures that flutter through frigid polar and subpolar waters using flaplike wings.

For example, the Antarctic icefish, a pale, near - transparent inhabitant of the frigid South Atlantic Ocean, has not only lost its ancestors» power to make oxygen - binding red hemoglobin (which it does not need in the cold oxygen - rich waters) but the two genes that code for hemoglobin have also gone extinct: one has disappeared, and the other remains as a non-coding «molecular fossil,» a useless remnant that hints at past use but still resides in the icefish DNA.

After digging through piles of data left from the mission to Mars more than 2 years ago, they've discovered signs that liquid water has lately flowed on the frigid planet.

Their mission was to study how the abundant marine life in these frigid waters will bear up under the stress of one of the world's most daunting, if least publicized, environmental threats: the rising acidity of the oceans.

Radar images of the moon's surface obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft show evidence of volcanic domes, craters, and lavalike flows, probably from a frigid mixture of water and ammonia.

The new findings, made by Prospector's neutron spectrometer, confirm that water is trapped in the frigid regions of the moon.

To prepare for the sudden rush of adrenaline when she hits the frigid water, she takes Spin classes to condition herself to hyper heart rates.

That November, Novak, who by then had become a vice president at Sanofi in Paris, and another old friend, Shaun Foy, a venture capitalist in Vancouver, Canada, discussed CRISPR's commercial potential during a surfing trip to the challenging, frigid waters off the northern tip of Vancouver Island.

Frigid water is seeping into and out of a vast lake beneath 4 kilometers of ice in Antarctica.

Beneath half a mile of frigid ocean water, at the bottom of a deep trough that never sees the light of day, lay a chiaroscuro world of grayish bacteria and giant brilliant white clams.

After decades of riding icebreakers in Antarctica's icy waters hoping to better understand the fragile ecosystem on and around this frigid continent scientists have begun delegating data collection to satellite - guided robotic subs.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope has discovered water vapour erupting from the frigid surface of Jupiter's moon Europa, in one or more localised plumes near its south pole.

Biofilms were first discovered in 1978 in the clear waters of a frigid mountain stream in British Columbia.

A team of marine researchers funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) has discovered a three - way conflict raging at the microscopic level in the frigid waters off Antarctica over natural resources such as vitamins and iron.

In this edition of Science Xplained, materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez of Yale University demonstrates how the metal rivets that held the ship together became brittle in the frigid waters and broke apart on impact with the iceberg, likely contributing to the enormity of the tragedy.

The Southern Hemisphere's unrelenting winds and frigid air froze ocean water into 7.6 million square miles (19.7 million square kilometers) of Antarctic sea ice this winter, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

The frigid satellite has long been thought of as candidate for possible microbial life due to its vast subsurface ocean of water.

If such findings were indeed to be uncovered on Charon, they would provide strong evidence for the existence of past liquid water oceans on the interior of the faraway frigid moon.

It's hard to imagine liquid water in a place as frigid as Antarctic, but due to heat from the earth and friction against the base of the ice, 55 percent of the West Antarctic ice sheet actually rests on water.

In place of water, however, Titan's frigid surface flows with liquid organic molecules, including methane (CH4) and ethane (C2H6).