Sentences with phrase «into gulf waters»

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The Gulf has seen a number of naval incidents between Iran and the US in the past year, including test rocket fire by the Islamic Republic and the brief capture of American sailors who strayed into its territorial waters.

Turbid waters spill out into the Gulf of Mexico where their suspended sediment is deposited to form the Mississippi River Delta.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Limited has paid US$ 25.6 million for entry into hydrocarbon prospective, deep water exploration acreage in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mix a little homemade rum, hot Gulf of Mexico temps, a family from Chicago who is afraid of the water and circling sharks and you get a hilarious glimpse into the life of this dad.

Warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico can also feed extra energy into storms battering the U.S. East Coast, says Richard Alley, a climatologist at Penn State who wasn't involved in the new study.

The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it's still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP's offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually releasing 205.8 million gallons of oil into the water column.

Surface slicks may account for as little as 2 per cent of the oil now spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study of a controlled deep - water spill conducted in 2000 by the US Minerals Management Service and a consortium of oil companies, including BP.

The heavier salty water flowing into the main basin has partially replaced the old eutrophic and anoxic water, which has in turn moved towards the mouth of the Gulf of Finland.

A central factor improving the oxygen situation from last year was that the eutrophic, low - oxygen deep water from the main basin has not flowed into the Gulf of Finland in the weather conditions of the past summer, unlike in the spring of 2014, for example.

On April 20, 2010, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico sank the oil rig and created a leak that has spewed millions of gallons into the water.

Or as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put it in a June 23 statement, «EPA has no data, information or scientific basis that suggests that oil mixed with dispersant could possibly evaporate from the Gulf into the water cycle.»

The flow of fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico has keep the slick offshore, scientists believe.

Brownish water from the Mississippi River billows into the Gulf of Mexico in this 2000 image, creating a huge, lifeless area.

These kinds of eddies can pinch off from strong boundary currents like the Gulf Stream, or form where water flows of different temperatures and densities come into contact.

Not only is Greenland's melting ice sheet adding huge amounts of water to the oceans, it could also be unleashing 400,000 metric tons of phosphorus every year — as much as the mighty Mississippi River releases into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new study.

As a consequence, millions of litres of oil have now spewed into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

It was the worst ever oil spill in US waters until 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon spill leaked one Exxon Valdez into the Gulf of Mexico every five days for three months.

USGS estimates that Alaska's glaciers and ice fields are responsible for nearly 50 percent of the water that flows into the Gulf of Alaska.

Incessant mountain rain, snow and melting glaciers in a comparatively small region of land that hugs the southern Alaska coast and empties fresh water into the Gulf of Alaska would create the sixth largest coastal river in the world if it emerged as a single stream, a recent study shows.

The Chicago and Calumet Rivers carry the city's storm and treated sewer water away from Lake Michigan by re-directing it into the Cal - Sag and Chicago Sanitary and Ship canals and the Des Plaines River, south to the Illinois River, Mississippi River, and Gulf of Mexico.

«Massive amounts of fresh water, glacial melt pouring into Gulf of Alaska.»

The findings support the theory that the Gulf of Mexico was landlocked as the Paleocene Epoch morphed into the warmer Eocene, punctuated by a massive loss of water due to evaporation and, millennia later, was inundated again.

Most importantly, it's when the Mississippi River starts shipping into the Gulf huge amounts of nutrient - filled water from melting snow and ice throughout its basin.

Hurricane Harvey gathered speed above unusually warm water Gulf of Mexico before slamming into Texas this weekend causing widespread flooding and a growing human toll (Photo: NOAA / NASA GOES Project)

Shark Night 3 - D (PG - 13 for terror, violence, disturbing images, profanity, mature themes, sexual references and partial nudity) High body - count screamfest about a Louisiana Gulf getaway which turns into a nightmare for vacationers sharing a beachfront home surrounded by shark - infested waters.

Roughly 10 times the amount of oil than has been spilled in the Gulf of Mexico so far was released into a much smaller body of water (the Persian Gulf is less than 1 / 6th the size of the Gulf of Mexico by surface area and has an average depth of only 160 feet and a maximum depth of a mere 300 feet vs. a maximum depth in the Gulf of Mexico of 14,383 feet).

Key West, Fla., sits at the southern most point of the continental U.S., right where America dips its big toe into the waters of both the turbulent Atlantic Ocean and the balmy Gulf of Mexico simultaneously.

Situated along Florida's Gulf Coast, Tampa Bay is a city surrounded by bodies of water, and there are more than 100 tributaries that flow into Tampa Bay.

An open - ocean marauder, the blackfin is found from Massachusetts to Rio de Janeiro and throughout the Gulf of Mexico, but the species seldom ventures into waters cooler than 70 degrees.

Set on a pier that stretches into the Arabian Gulf, the views of the water in every direction are stunning.

Aiming to extend city life out into the waters of the Arabian Gulf, the Palm Jumeirah looks like a stylised palm tree from above, and was originally billed as the Eighth Wonder of the World.

North Residences are on Palm Jumeirah is one of three man - made islands called the Palm Islands which extend out from the United Arab Emirates coastal city of Dubai into the emerald waters of the Persian Gulf.

The rivers Sarstoon in the south, Temash, Moho, Rio Grande, Golden Stream, Deep River and Monkey River all flow from the Maya mountains eastwards into the warm shallow waters of the Gulf of Honduras and towards the Sapodilla Cayes at the southern tip of the Belize barrier reef about thirty - five miles off shore.

The whales may also go into the Gulf of California but usually not farther than La Paz — it really depends on the temperature of the water.

Fish from the resort's beach was released into the waters of the Arabian Gulf — a response to an authority's call in the Emirate for a more sustainable utilisation of the fisheries.

Relax under swaying palm trees then jump into crystal - clear waters — spend time island - hopping through the best of the Gulf of Thailand.

But even if you don't dip a single toe into its alluring waters, Gili Trawangan offers an exquisite respite from the daily grind of the Gulf.

Located in the center of a small peninsula that extends into the warm waters of the Gulf of Thailand, Sihanoukville boasts several fine white sand beaches.

The 10,000 m2 private luxury deck will fan 100 metres out into the Arabian Gulf and accommodate 32 cabanas, 400 sun loungers, one fresh water pool measuring 612m2 and one salt water pool measuring 828m2, one restaurant and a bar.

Find yourself walking through historic landmarks such as Fort Morgan at the tip of the peninsula opening to Mobile Bay or dipping your toes into the crystalline Gulf waters as the sun sets over the water.

The warm waters of the Gulf Stream are funneled between Cozumel and the mainland bringing scores of game fish into the area.

By Justin Pope - The Associated Press CNN, November15th, 2005 Grey Whales Baja ISLA CARMEN, Mexico (AP)-- Across the channel, the setting sun turned the sharp, desert mountains of the Baja Peninsula a dusty red as they plunged into the placid blue and turquoise waters of the Gulf of California.

The Guggenheim, scheduled to be completed around 2013, will be a spectacular landmark built on a sandbar extending 50 feet out into the waters of the Gulf, visible from Abu Dhabi's urban center to the east as well as from both coasts of Saadiyat Island.

Though the morale of the environmental movement was far from upbeat in 2010 — remember, COP15 had just ended disappointingly, an energy bill had failed to gain ground in Congress, and the Deep Water Horizon drilling platform had begun leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico — there was some guarded optimism.

«There's no other place I know of that has springs of these magnitudes that do that: flow directly into the Gulf or any other saltwater body,» says Chris Anastasiou, springs expert with the South Florida Water Management District, which owns the park.

I recall mention that Katrina was unusual because while crossing the Gulf «Ring Current» the deeper water pulled up by the hurricane was almost as warm as the sea surface, so the deeper water fed almost as much heat energy into the storm as the surface.

The same can be said about the inflow of warm saline waters of the NADC (north atlantic drift current, which is the extension of the Gulf Stream via the north atlantic current) into Nordic waters.

The area of hypoxia, or low oxygen, in the northern Gulf of Mexico west of the Mississippi River delta covered 20,000 square kilometers (7,722 square miles) of the bottom and extended far into Texas waters.

In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

The surface waters of the tropical Atlantic are then transported, via the Gulf Stream, towards the high latitudes where they warm the atmosphere before plunging into the abysses in the convection zones situated in the seas of Norway, Greenland and Labrador.