Sentences with phrase «meters of water above»

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«Waves lose energy once you get to get to less than half a wavelength depth — typically deep swell waves are 100 to 140 meters (330 to 460 feet) in wavelength — hence why we focus on being out above 50 to 70 meters (165 to 230 feet) of water,» Carcas says.

A collapse of Tehri Dam in the central Himalayas, which sits above a fault, would, for instance, release a wall of water about 200 meters high, slamming through two towns.

On Saturday, the drill had encountered water at about 3766 meters depth, but the team determined that it was a water lens sitting above the surface of the lake rather than the lake itself.

SOFIA mission public engagement & public outreach efforts, including maintaining the Science Center website and producing social media output, are jointly managed & implemented by SOFIA staff employed by USRA, the SETI Institute, and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.SOFIA is a modified Boeing 747SP aircraft that carries a telescope with an effective diameter of 100 inches (2.5 meters) at altitudes up to 45,000 feet (14 km), above the obscuring layer of water vapor in Earth's atmosphere.

That day, the incoming wall of water reached 9 meters (29.5 feet) above normal in places.

And here's one reason: The snippets of DNA that they studied all come from frozen lake water collected tens of meters above the current surface of the lake.

All those people who paid big bucks to buy up all the ocean front property at 60 meters above sea level are really going be unhappy with 20 meters of salt water over their heads.

However, layers of water ice, up to a few hundred meters thick, are permanently shielded from sunlight in craters (shown above in black) near Mercury's poles.10 How strange.

It has a span of 503 meters; it's length including ramps is 1149 meters, it is 49 meters wide and its highest point is 134 meters above the water surface.

With a capacity of over 3,300 passengers, the cruise liner is equipped with onboard facilities, such as six waterslide parks, rock climbing wall, a 35 - meter zip - line that sways above the open waters and more.

After a safety briefing, traverse through the tropical setting of El Limón National Park to hidden waterfalls, including El Limón, which spits out water from 165 feet (50 meters) above.

You can fly above the water, dive into it, walk on it, and reach heights of 10 meters (30 feet) with your own Jetpack or Hoverboard.

Located at the far end of a private jetty that extends out above the turquoise waters, the Gili Lagoon Residence boasts 250 square meters of space and features a spacious air - conditioned living room with two large daybeds, a dining table, and a private mini wine cellar.

Although visibility in the area is less clear than other parts of Thailand, often being limited to 5 - 20 meters, the Phi Phi Islands are one of the most popular diving locations in Southeast Asia in part because of its stunning landscape both above and below water.

When you upgrade to a full Open Water Certification you will need to supply proof of having completed a Scuba Diver Course, this is usually by showing your certification card, but we can also check via the PADI system.At the successful completion of the PADI Scuba Diver Upgrade Program you will be qualified to dive with a diver of equal qualification or above to a maximum depth of 18 meters.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

«We find that the access of warm water to the glaciers and ice shelves in this region are almost controlled by a depth of about 700 meters [2,300 feet], which is just right above some of the warmest waters in the region,» said Eric Rignot, a professor of Earth system science at UCI and co-author of the new study.

Although this water is only warm in a relative sense, just a couple of degrees above freezing, it can melt away the ice at an astonishing rate — up to 100 meters per year.

Since some parts of the Maldives are just 1.5 meters (5 feet) above water, even a small rise could cause disaster to the small country.

Forget Chinatown; this could turn water tensions into water wars.The basics The project, meant to solve the north's serious water woes, would involve engineering feats on one edge of the earthquake prone Qinghai - Tibetan Plateau in western China, some 3,000 to 5,000 meters (9,800 to 16,400 feet) above sea level, much like the Qinghai - Tibet railway.

Each profiler included a bundle of sensor instruments suspended about 6 meters deep in the water and tethered to the ice floating above.