Sentences with phrase «in frigid water»

Pictures of ice calving from the Arctic ice pack and polar bears stranded on ice sheets drifting in the frigid water bring an emotional charge to the discussion.

It takes 70 dips in frigid water to become a member of Sydney's Bondi Icebergs Winter Swimming Club.

Yet Jerry's repeated orders to stay close at hand go unheeded, and Davis again tumbles down an ice cliff — this time the grave results include a fractured leg and plunging up to his shoulders in frigid water.

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.

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

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.

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.

Antarctic cod prosper in frigid waters because their blood contains glycoproteins that act like antifreeze.

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.

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.

That helps keep them warm in frigid waters, because these marine mammals don't produce blubber — a thick layer of fat — as do seals and walruses.

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

However, the real test comes when Jake is sent out on his first solo mission in the frigid waters off the coast of Alaska.

For the most part large dog breeds were bred to be working dogs, usually used to hunt larger animals, pull heavy carts or tow in fishing nets to fishing boats in frigid waters.

Humboldt penguins live along the western coast of South America where they swim in the frigid waters swept up from the Antarctic, yet their feathers remain immune to freezing.

Adaptation is clearly the cleverest designer around... and Humboldt penguins have it to thank for ice - free feathers when taking a dip in the frigid waters they call home.

«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.

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.

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

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.

«They talk about using non-lethal weapons, but when you're talking about soaking people with freezing water in frigid temperatures, that's life - threatening.»

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.

Frigid cold weather is a good time to do this, because you'll welcome having that oven heating for a few hours: You roast the bones once with onions and garlic for an hour, and then slow roast them for another three hours, covered in water.

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.

And then last week, while we were on vacation in Maine, I watched Laurel tackle three challenges for the first time: she jumped off a jetty intro frigid water, scaled a rock wall (almost to the very top... her burning forearms were the only reason she didn't keep climbing), and maneuvered a towering, three - story rope obstacle course, including a zip line from the third story.

Arkadi Romanov has seen hardy sea ducks withstand frigid waters in his native Russia.

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...

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

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

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.

Water covering the surface interacts with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere in ways that can turn chilly planets frigid and make warm ones even hotter.

Glass sponges provide habitat for feather and brittle stars in frigid Antarctic waters.

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

On 28 December 1879, a mere 18 months after opening, its central section collapsed in a violent storm, sending a passenger train plunging into the frigid waters below and killing all 75 or so on board.

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.

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.

This is only the second moon in the solar system found ejecting water vapour from its frigid surface.

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

It's here in the frigid Nordic Seas that water masses become cold and dense, sinking in streams that snake along the basin bottom, eventually turning southward and reaching the subtropics in about a decade.

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).

There's a reason the folks who undertake «polar plunges» in winter months emerge from the frigid water with silly grins on their faces: giving your body a quick, cold shock stimulates deep breathing (which increases the oxygen in our bodies) and jump - starts circulation.

I took a leap of faith in frigid murky waters to save this sweet little life.

Set in frigid Point Barrow, Alaska, a family of three gray whales become more - or-less trapped by the rapidly freezing Arctic waters.