Sentences with phrase «hole in the ice»

If they are harmed by global warming it is because they do much of their hunting for seals that have breathing holes in the ice sheet.

After walking across a frozen lake one morning, a boy and his grandfather make holes in the ice, drop their fishing lines into the water, and wait.

If the ground had been blue the forms might have looked like islands in a sea but as some of the forms are themselves blue, maybe they more resemble fishing holes in ice.

These majestic ice seals use their claws to create breathing holes in ice that can be up to two meters thick.

The bears» feeding strategy involves swimming from the mainland to and between offshore ice floes, poaching seals as they come up to breathe at holes in the ice.

One of them broke apart at an altitude of about 18 kilometres, the other sailed on to eventually land in Lake Chebarkul, leaving a 7 - metre - wide hole in the ice.

Work done in the southern hemisphere's summer, December through January 2012 - 13, included drilling holes in the ice to place a variety of instruments and using radar to map the underside of the ice shelf and the bottom of the ocean.

In the past few years, researchers have used genetic information to sort out this relationship and to understand how polar bears thrive in the frigid Arctic, feeding primarily on seals and other marine life captured from holes in the ice.

First, when he's standing on a glacier pointing out the tiny holes in the ice caused by soot from power plants worldwide.

In a heartbreaking move, the Canadian government decided it would rather allow 500 narwhals to be shot one by one at an air hole in the ice, rather than bring in icebreakers to help free the whales.

One NASA theory is that pools of water on the top of the glaciers melt in summer sun and these pools flow into tube - shaped holes in the ice called moulins and thus down to the underside of the glacier to speed up its forward motion.

For instance, While swimming beneath an ice cap in below freezing waters (yes, where holes in ice caps are cut out in order to enter and exit), Hof claimed to have lost his sight.

Scientists have also seen meltwater ponds forming on the ice shelf's surface; the same sort of ponds probably hastened the disintegration of Larsen B by carving holes in the ice and expanding cracks.

As Tulaczyk watched the Herc on Jan. 17, 2013, the lake remained a mere silhouette pieced together from noisy geophysical measurements involving radar, lasers shot down from satellites and the seismic echoes of shock waves released by explosives detonated in shallow holes in the ice.

Since they must come up to breathe every so often, they find a small hole in the ice and begin to tread water around their only breathing source.

High - schooler Anastasia Cayne vanishes, and her neatly laid - out dress is found near a jagged hole in the ice.

They are in a tiny hole in ice about 35 km from the small community of Inukjuak.

The heat kept the huge hole in the ice pack called a polynya open, and a massive oceanic convection cell formed in the Antarctic winter.

The drill hose dangled 2,480 feet down a 20 - inch - wide hole in the ice.

Work done in the southern hemisphere's summer, December through January 2012 - 13, included drilling holes in the ice to place a variety of instruments and using radar to map the underside of the ice shelf and the bottom of the ocean.

The Canadian government decided it would rather allow 500 narwhals to be shot one by one at an air hole in the ice, rather than bring in icebreakers to help free the whales 12.

During one dive ascent, Ray recalled, parts of his regulator froze, leaving him to compete with a curious seal for access to a shared breathing hole in the ice, while his colleagues ran to get their cameras.

While we might examine the hole in the ice in hindsight, and find some particular fracture that contributed to the collapse, this is much like looking for the particular pebble of sand that triggers an avalanche, or the specific vibration that triggers an earthquake.

The conspirators had planned to weigh down Rasputin's body and dump him in the river in a hole in the ice, but in their incompetence they forgot to attach the weights.

They just tell stories about friends of theirs who heard about a guy who caught dozens of fish on a stretch of a river in Africa, or another guy who pulled a fish so big out of a frozen pond in Minnesota that the fisherman had to make the hole in the ice bigger just to pull it out.

The area of the hole in the ice is larger than The Netherlands and it fascinates climate and polar researchers worldwide.

CROWDED around a hole in the ice, the dozen or so people clad in thick jackets could be local fishermen.

Collar videos showed that 90 percent of seal hunts are ambushes, often by a bear lurking near a hole in the ice until a seal bursts up for a gulp of air.

Each day, ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under - ice Robotic Antarctic Explorer) was lowered through a hole in the ice and used its sensors to take readings in different parts of the lake — temperatures, light levels, solar radiation and dissolved organic matter.

As drilling began on Jan. 23, the hose was gradually unspooled into a hole in the ice sheet.

But, as the plane's departure had showed, in these conditions even seemingly straightforward tasks, like melting a hole in the ice, often prove difficult.

A trip down to the lake in the mornings to get a bucketful of drinking water from a hole in the ice.

Oh, nevermind, that's just a hole in the ice.

They are called polynyas, formations that derive their name from the Russian word for «hole in the ice,» and are typically an expanse of open seawater along the coast that is enclosed by floating sea ice and the continental shelf.

In January 2016, the researchers visited the crater and discovered that it was a collapsed lake, with a moulin — a hole in the ice — which allowed the water to flow into the ocean.

Cut a hole in the ice.

Instead, the one named Crozier (Jared Harris) will go on to be that man waiting over the hole in the ice, living on but no longer as himself, while the one named Fitzjames (Tobias Menzies) will die a sad, pitiable death.

In short, I found my best teachers to be misfits; somewhat ill - equipped for life on the outside, but wonderful guides to the art of cutting a hole in the ice, baiting a hook, and lowering it into the dark unknown.

A cemetery might be the more pleasing option, but the easier one is to sign another law that sees the dead being pushed into a hole in the ice, a decision that later allows the corpses to be recycled for food.

People scooped up the holy water through a hole in the ice or even plunged into the Neva to be cleansed of sin or cured of illness.

When scientists lower an ultra-precise thermometer into a hole in the ice, they can detect the temperature variations that have occurred since the Ice Age.

A polar bear sits on the Hudson Bay fresh ice next to a hole in the ice and close to the shore waiting for a seal meal for, 15 November 2007, outside Churchill, Mantioba, Canada.

A small solar panel helps keep a hole in the ice for hunting and breathing.The platform has been exhibited in a roasting pan as a reminder of climate change heating the habitat.

When summer temperatures rise in Greenland and the melt season begins, water pools on the surface, and sometimes disappears down holes in the ice.

They get started by trying to make a large hole in the ice nearby that's large enough for passing ducks to spot from the air but since creating a large hole in the ice, during the middle of winter can be a challenge Alex has something better in mind, walks back to the Benz and pulls out a stick of dynamite with a short fuse.

Cut a hole in the ice and send down a diver with a waterproof video camera, all the while tethering him via waterproof steel cable to a high speed tow truck winch with the tether being equipped with two super-duper SHAM - WOW!