Sentences with phrase «from rough waves»

An outstretched hand, reminiscent of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, emerges from rough waves, clutching an iPhone, tilted at the perfect angle for a selfie.

The South Caicos reef has established our island as a top dive destination, while also acting as a buffer, sheltering our island from rough waves and storms.

Not exact matches

And his adviser had set up a collaboration to search for possible neutron - star mergers as LIGO detected gravitational waves and gave astronomers a rough estimate of where in the sky they seemed to be coming from.

The most cost - effective option would be a scaled - up barge: At about 1,000 feet in length, this type of vessel would run perhaps $ 350 per square foot, though the rocking and rolling from waves might make for a rough life aboard.

The idea was that ripples of the measurements carried out in the future could beat back to the present and combine with effects from the past, like waves combining and peaking below a boat, setting it rocking on the rough sea.

Physical processes affecting human health include rough seas that threaten both small and large vessels; weather disturbances such as typhoons and hurricanes; rogue waves; and surges from storms and tsunamis.

Two detectors can even determine a rough direction as to where the wave was traveling from, but if more detectors are added to the network, astronomers hope to eventually pinpoint, with increasing precision, where they originate.

During my last trip to Florida, we stayed on the beach a week and I watched the waves go from calm to extremely rough when a storm was out in the ocean.

Rough seas are battled to reach a small boat; a surfer who sought shelter from the waves must be hoisted off a 200 - foot cliff.

The first follows Bernie and his crew (played by Ben Foster, Kyle Gallner, and John Magaro) as they make their way to the tanker without the aid of being able to radio back to their base or of a compass, which is destroyed during the rough trek over the waves formed by the bar leading from Chatham, Massachusetts, to the sea.

Jackie makes her move from Cleveland Coliseum secretary to ballsy wheeler - dealer by way of rough - around - the - edges but gifted fighter Luther Shaw (Omar Epps), thus setting up two parallel underdog stories: the traditional genre one of a gutsy young athlete moving his way up the ranks, and one in the Erin Brockovich mold, with a skanky dresser with a brash attitude to match making waves with her moxie.

Garnering tension from trying to start the first flickers of a fire or riding the rough waves of the wild ocean landscape, Hanks embodies Chuck in mind, body and soul and convinces us this truly is a man battling his mind and the elements to survive.

Even on the days with a stronger breeze, the reef manages to keep waves from getting too choppy and rough.

It's a bumpy ride, although apparently the waves are even rougher if you come from Isla Mujeres.

Not for snorkeling or swimming, this beach, just across from South Friars on the Atlantic side, has rough waves, pounding surf and rocky reefs close to shore.

The southwest monsoon, from late May to October, brings rain and winds to the west coast of southern Thailand, and the Andaman Sea can be quite rough with high waves during this season.

But it was a different story when the slightest bit of rough and your boat is slamming from the tiny waves.

Waves from the sea sprayed us head to toe in the tiny zodiac as we made rough landings on shore.

The amount of heat kicked back, in the same part of the spectrum as the incident sun energy waves, due to a white roof looks to my rough calculation to be about the same (within an order of magnitude) as the amount of heat energy discharged from a typical large automobile operating for about an hour a day.

To create a wave of 100 percent renewable electricity commitments by asking everyone from a small business like Rough Draft Bar and Books to the entire Ulster County, New York to commit to taking meaningful climate action.

Light waves can be reflected / scattered, absorbed, refracted, or transmitted to pass through matter unchanged and different materials will have different effects in these encounters; high energy light waves get scattered in our atmosphere from encounters with dust, water vapour, molecules, etc. as the white light hits the rough surface composed of these, so we have a blue sky for example, while the longer IR gets absorbed by water and earth, on a smooth surface such as glass or still water these high energy lights get reflected, angle of incidence equal to, and some pass through to get reflected or scattered at the next surface, think rainbow.

I was disappointed to be dragged away when Sprog 2 melted down after a tsunami - style wave skittled her in the pool (the seas continue to be a tad rough)(fortunately a lethal scotch and Diet Coke from the pool bar softened the blow... for me... for around three hours... whoa... Sprog 2 made do with a strawberry soft - serve).