Sentences with phrase «ocean voyages during»

This involved written course instruction and actual ocean voyages during which the students served as crew members aboard Captain Mapes» sailing vessel «Voyager».

[57] The advancement of ocean voyages during the Renaissance resulted in prolonged periods without access to fresh fruits and vegetables, and made illnesses from vitamin deficiency common among ships» crews.

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To Erlandson, these miniature trees look like a trail left by mariners who voyaged along the stormy northern coasts of the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the Americas during the last Ice Age.

Ocean cruise companies already offer Arctic voyages and, with more ice - free months, are weighing more trips during formerly frozen - over months.

Researchers at the University of Southampton have captured unprecedented data about some of the coldest abyssal ocean waters on earth — known as Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW)-- during first voyage of the yellow robotic submersible known as Boaty McBoatface, which arrived back in the UK last week.

Titanic (PG - 13 for nudity, sensuality, violence, peril and brief profanity) 3D rerelease of Oscar - sweeping disaster epic about the whirlwind romance of two star - crossed lovers (Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio) who meet aboard the RMS Titanic during the ill - fated ocean liner's maiden voyage.

During our recent stay in Ocean Park, Maine, I took a review copy of the Kindle Voyage out to the beach on a sunny day to see if the micro-etched glass screen is as readable in sunlight as the plastic Kindle screens of yore.

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.

«A few months before the [previous year's] meeting, the R.M.S. Titanic famously collided with an iceberg during its maiden voyage and sank in the Atlantic Ocean.