Sentences with phrase «hauled out of the sea»

The first written description of the dog dates to 1297, when a monk wrote about a sailor hauled out of the sea by a dog with a «black coat of rough hair, cut to the first rib and with a tuft on the tip of his tail.»

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In the two hours it took us to reach the sea, Brennan had gone armpit - deep in bog and was hauled out, Flannery fell in the stream and I spent a quarter of an hour in a bramble patch, just waiting for the banshee to come and get me.

«Loss of sea ice has resulted in walrus hauling out on land in Alaska and Russia in massive numbers — these land haul outs result in trampling of their young,» Laidre said.

Close to ten years ago, researchers from the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) caught «Calvin the Cod» and hauled him out of the cold Arctic waters during an oceanographic expedition to the Barents Sea and the northern coast of Norway and the Lofoten archipelago.

Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating mass crowding out the catch of mackerel and sea bass.

Walruses are fin - footed mammals with brilliant white tusks that help them keep breathing holes open in the sea ice, fight, and haul themselves out of the water.

It might therefore be an effective salve to think of this sea change as analogous to our road - bound heroes» plight, but it's business as usual for both distributor Warner Bros. (here combining two disparate pieces of source material — A.I. Bezzerides» novel The Long Haul and the 1935 Bette Davis vehicle Bordertown — simply to get mileage out of pre-owned properties) and Walsh, since Walsh seemed to gravitate towards cross-pollinated screenplays.

Also making a comeback, after years of hunting, are the thousands of pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) that breed, pup, and haul out on the island's 27 miles of isolated coastline.

It's dark when I get up at 6 am, the first hint of a new day on the horizon; the forest floor has turned gold and green as the cedars shed their summer cloak; honeysuckle leaves litter the boardwalks and garden ground; bright red honeysuckle berries are being plucked by tiny wrens; jays are sitting in the apple tree, feasting on the fruit we imagined as apple pie; the last roses are fading; fronds of great bull kelp are landing on the beach, food for next year's garden; the sudden daybreak howl of sporty boats heading to the hot fishing spots where we have our hydrophones has gone; sea lions are beginning to heave their huge bodies onto haul - out rocks along the way; most of our assistants have left, heading back to school or home; and in their absence we are spending more time in the lab at night, recording the voices of the orcas, who are still here.

Both harbour seals and Steller sea lions haul out on the many rocky islets, always weary of an ambush from transient (marine mammal - eating) killer whales.

Over the coming months, as seals and sea lions haul out on beaches and give birth to pups up and down the California coast, the Marine Mammal Center is looking for volunteers to care for a likely onslaught of young animals that need help.

There wasn't much left of the Steller Sea Lion haul - out due to the very high tide, but a few individuals managed to find some space to rest.

We made our way over to the Steller Sea Lion haul - out and sat quietly watching these giants as the sound of their growling carried across the water.

[2] Castle Rock is the northernmost breeding colony of northern elephant seals, which like harbor seals breed on the island; California sea lions and Steller sea lions use the island as a haul - out [3] but do not breed there.

Another cool Humpback moment today as we watched Guardian and Inukshuk the Humpback Whales travelling together near one of the Steller Sea Lion haul outs.

You'll even enjoy a short cruise to the Millar group of islands, where you'll spend the day paddling a network of tiny islands that host haul - out for sea lions and a hangout for humpback whales.

While paddling this network of tiny islands, you might see over a hundred Stellar sea lions hauled out on the rocky outcrops.

Many pods of the transient killer whales converged on our Steller sea lion haul - out sites in the San Juan Islands.

On clear mornings, you will usually be able to catch a glimpse of the local fishermen going about their daily routines, preparing their nets and working together to haul their wooden «jukung» outriggers out to sea.

Just off the coast of Crescent Bay Beach a large rock jets up from the water's surface, creating a perfect hauling out spot for California Sea Lions and Harbor Seals to crawl up on and sunbathe.

(09/01/2011) Recent, unprecedented walrus haul - outs and increased instances of long - distance swims by polar bears show the direct impacts on wildlife of dwindling Arctic sea ice from climate change.

For example, although the sample size has been very small, studies of radio - collared seals in the Bering and Chukchi Seas observed those seals rarely hauled out at all, on land or sea ice, even when occupying ice covered areas.