Sentences with phrase «ocean at the foot»

Its location was perfect, with the ocean at our feet, within a few feet from the beach, and walking distance to Lahaina.

This picturesque town sits right on the ocean at the foot of the mountains — a spectacular spot.

Feel the warmth of the Pacific Ocean at your feet.

With the Pacific Ocean at your feet, anything is possible Show full description

Stand at your doorstep and listen to and smell the ocean at your feet.

Not exact matches

At least we thought it went into the ocean — we couldn't be sure because it was 100 feet straight down over the cliff.

I will tell this story backwards, because the first act of this story, condensed into a single image, is a rocket ship full of manhole covers at 25,000 feet and falling, its engines burning and whipping it into a tailspin and toward the ocean of a cursed, deserted Earth.

If water is the problem, you can encourage your toddler to dip his feet in at the edge of the ocean or pool, but don't force him.

The viewing area at 130 feet affords a panoramic view of the Atlantic Ocean.

Tankers docking at the station would have regasified the fuel and pumped it through pipes buried at least 15 feet under the ocean bottom, including a 22 - mile - long main that would hook up to an existing delivery system.

Located approximately 16 to 2,300 feet below the glacier, the five ocean sensors are connected to a weather station at the surface, creating the first cabled observatory on a floating, moving, and rapidly melting Greenland glacier.

In all likelihood, each of these crossed at least one ocean within the dark confines of a container measuring 8 by 8.5 by 20 feet, stacked with as many as 10,999 others aboard one of the 4,500 container ships in use around the world.

Tides raise the ocean by 30 feet, reversing the flow of freshwater at the river mouth, and winds blow at up to 35 mph.

«When we modeled future shoreline change with the increased rates of sea level rise (SLR) projected under the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario, we found that increased SLR causes an average 16 - 20 feet of additional shoreline retreat by 2050, and an average of nearly 60 feet of additional retreat by 2100,» said Tiffany Anderson, lead author and post-doctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.

The wave tank facility is 360 feet long and 240 feet wide and has a wave maker that can generate precisely measured waves to simulate various ocean environments for hours at a time.

This past June scientists at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi reported that the eyewall's extreme conditions can stir up ocean currents 300 feet below the surface, disrupting sediment and organisms on the seafloor for as long as a week after the storm subsides.

There, Ocean Power's sinuous, 450 - foot - long cherry - red steel snake, called Pelamis after a sea snake, pumps 11,000 AC volts into a grid at the European Marine Energy Centre, an innovative test bed that can offer the sort of apples - to - apples performance measures of sea generators that investors and electric utilities crave.

On August 2, Russia's deep submergence vehicle, MIR - 1, planted a titanium flag 13,980 feet underwater on the ocean floor at the North Pole.

The inset map is a computer model of Asian mercury emissions across the Pacific Ocean at an altitude of 20,000 feet in April 2004, while atmospheric chemist Dan Jaffe was picking up significant mercury readings on Mount Bachelor (the highest concentrations are in red).

One of those scientists is Philip Orton, an ocean engineer at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., a city of about 50,000 people, in the New York City metropolitan area, that Sandy swamped under eight feet of salt water.

In extreme conditions — in this case, magma - heated water at an ocean depth of nearly 10,000 feet — things work a little differently.

While walking the Coquimbo roads, Darwin had filled his pockets with seashells and, having lived through an earthquake just a few weeks earlier, concluded reasonably that the Coquimbo roads were ancient beaches of the Pacific Ocean, which was right there, and that they stood at their present level not because the ocean had sunk or somehow drained away but because the earth itself had risen, as it practically had just then, right beneath his Ocean, which was right there, and that they stood at their present level not because the ocean had sunk or somehow drained away but because the earth itself had risen, as it practically had just then, right beneath his ocean had sunk or somehow drained away but because the earth itself had risen, as it practically had just then, right beneath his feet.

86 A Yeti Crab Discovered A furry - looking crustacean discovered on the floor of the South Pacific Ocean at a depth of 6,500 feet...

On its flight across the Pacific — the first for a balloon — the four - man crew battled violent storms and a buildup of two tons of ice on the balloon's surface, forcing them at one point to hover just 4,500 feet above the ocean.

Exponentially less methane would be able to reach the atmosphere in waters that are thousands of feet deep at the very edge of the shallow seas near continents, which is the area of the ocean where the bulk of methane hydrates are,» Sparrow says.

Gretchen Früh - Green, an earth scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, was stunned to find a network of mineral chimneys rising 200 feet from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

The captured CO2 will be liquefied on site and pumped through a two - foot - diameter pipeline that will snake south through the waters of the Arthur Kill, turn eastward through Raritan Bay out into the Atlantic Ocean, and arrive, about 140 miles later, at a natural repository of Lower Cretaceous sandstone more than 8,000 feet below the seafloor.

Petrobras's new find lies more than three times farther from shore than BP's ruptured Macondo well, and beneath 7,200 feet of ocean compared with the 5,000 feet of water at the BP blowout site.

Using the Saharan Air Layer as a proxy for volcanic ash, the test aircraft will now fly over the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco to prove the equipment can detect the fine particles of sand at altitudes of up to 20,000 feet and a distance of around 100 km.

They found that as phytoplankton died, they sank at least 1,000 meters (3,280 feet)-- and probably all the way to the ocean bottom.

A team of physicists at the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute have developed a device, called a U-TENG, that is designed to take mechanical motion — like the waves in the ocean, the tap of a foot or the clap of a hand — and transform it into electricity.

The Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound, the world's fastest - melting glacier, slides into the ocean at a rate of 80 feet per day.

With the rising levels of BPA and other plastic chemicals found in our groundwater, ocean water, and even buried under 30 feet of ice at the south pole, experts warn that these chemicals may be contributing to the rising health problems we are seeing worldwide.

I had a little too much fun at the beach last week but it felt great to have my toes in the sand and I even braved dipping my feet in the water (I have a tiny fear of the ocean, but that is another story).

Comodoro Rivadavia is a city in the Patagonian province of Chubut in southern Argentina, located on the San Jorge Gulf, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, at the foot of the Chenque Hill.

A 75 - foot - long prehistoric shark attacks a deep - sea submersible necessitating a rescue operation at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

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You've got Captain Jack Lemmon at the controls, passengers played by Olivia De Haviland, Christopher Lee, Darren McGavin, and a plane that crashes into the ocean and sinks 200 feet to the bottom, thereby adding a «Poseidon Adventure» twist as well as begging the nervous question, «Say, who wants to have a contest to see who can hold their breath the longest?»

We've come all the way to the Big Island of Hawaii (4038 square miles) to stare into the ocean's depths at dawn and ride at dusk to the top of Mauna Kea (13,796 feet), lifted up into a heaven packed with more stars than we've ever seen in our lives.

Dog Beach Located in Ocean Beach at the foot of Voltaire Street, this site offers 24 hour access to the beach and oOcean Beach at the foot of Voltaire Street, this site offers 24 hour access to the beach and oceanocean.

One female elephant seal off of Vancouver Island was measured at an astonishing depth of 5,788 feet — well over one mile beneath the ocean's surface!

Visit www.kapohokine.com Clients can zipline over Hamakua Coast rainforest scenery, including a 250 - foot waterfall and a 300 - foot - deep gorge with ocean and Maunakea mountain views, at Botanical World Adventures.

The three pools at this resort include one with a kid - friendly, 140 - foot - long waterslide, and another with an ocean - view swim - up bar — but it's the adults... Read More

Then they can settle into one of the resort's 80 sumptuous over-water bungalows — each at least 1,000 square feet and set on stilts right over the turquoise ocean.

Whether you spend the day exploring or simply put your feet up from dawn to dusk, finish at the Beach Shack for candlelit fine dining beside the ocean.

The 54 rooms at South Beach's Riviera Hotel are surprisingly spacious (at least 700 square feet), given the prime location a couple of blocks from the ocean and near the Bass Museum of Art.

At 8,701 feet, the volcano can be seen from the Pacific Ocean, as it was by Charles Darwin in 1835 during the second voyage of the Beagle.

The world's lowest - lying nation rises barely four - feet above sea level (at its highest point, a mere eight - feet), and fans over the Indian Ocean in wide, flat circles of blindingly white sand.

The country at the foot of Africa where the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet has a history spanning more than two million years according to the wealth of pre-historic fossils found here.

We have more than 60 dive sites on the regular Small Hope Bay Lodge dive schedule, including colorful shallow reefs, coral gardens, wreck dives, breathtaking blue holes and stunning wall dives at the edge of the continental shelf, where the Tongue of the Ocean plunges to 6,000 feet.