Sentences with phrase «of open ocean»

A magnificent golden beach lies at our doorstep and views from our restaurant stretch over 2,000 nautical miles of open ocean.

They are normally found in the upper layers of the open ocean in warm seas.

Dispersants have been applied to oil slicks on the ocean surface for half a century to break petroleum into smaller droplets that dissipate into waters of the open ocean so that less oil reaches ecologically sensitive coastlines.

The Wickaninnish Inn offers magnificent views of the open ocean set against a backdrop of old - growth forest.

In Fishes of the Open Ocean, Pepperell writes that historic accounts tell of thresher sharks attacking whales, and notes that while these stories seem highly unlikely, they do make for fascinating reading.

«There was a lot of open ocean water and we saw periods of very slow ice growth in late October and into November, because the water had a lot of accumulated heat that had to be dissipated before ice could grow.

In June 2006, the Bush administration created the Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument, a 1,200 - mile - long, 140,000 - square - mile stretch of open ocean northwest of Honolulu.

Instead of the familiar deep blue of the open ocean, the waters surrounding the Maiken were lagoon green.

If you're already a devoted surfer, you'll find a variety of different waves and conditions along San Diego's 70 miles of open ocean coastline to beacon you to paddle out.

The arctic ocean may be millions of square kilometer [1.4 million] but have this effect why isn't 10,000 square kilometer of open ocean not enough to have regional effect.

The algae provide food for the bacteria, and the bacteria provide protection from the many pathogens of the open ocean.

These findings support the opinion of Charles Darwin, who considered this intimidating expanse of open ocean «impassable» — countering recent arguments that the «East Pacific Barrier» must be breachable since the same coral species are found on both sides.

Ricke and Caldeira, along with colleagues from Institut Pierre Simon Laplace and Stanford University, focused on the acidification of open ocean water surrounding coral reefs and how it affects a reef's ability to survive.

Single - cell phytoplankton in the ocean are responsible for roughly half of global oxygen production, despite vast tracts of the open ocean that are devoid of life - sustaining nutrients.

Bright greens of plant - life have replaced the deep blues of open ocean water.

ref Such changes in the carbon chemistry of the open ocean probably have not occurred for more than 20 million years.

The starkness of the open ocean and the brutality of a POW camp is captured so beautifully and makes for a highly immersive experience, visually speaking.

A half hour later we were motoring out in the direction of the open ocean, the island masses spread out behind us.

Its hull and body are engineered for the big waves of the open ocean, minimizing the uncomfortable rolling feeling many passengers only know (and dread) too well.

Some of my most memorable students I tough over these years have been the most scared of the open Ocean, but have been the most determine to conquer it for the passion for it.

There they enter the sheltered lagoons along the Pacific coast where barrier islands protect them from the storms and surf of the open ocean.

Banco Chinchorro lies 36 nautical miles of open ocean from our pier in Xcalak, the oldest town on the Mexican Caribbean coast, making it a challenge to go to Chinchorro on most days, the summer months being the most suitable for the journey.

Maui Ocean Center - the Hawaiian Aquarium A journey of discovery through the extraordinary underwater world that lies beyond Hawaii's surf - ringed shores - from the complex beauty of the Living Reef to the vast, blue realm of the Open Ocean.

Barangay Pundaquit is in front of the open ocean of the China sea.

The topography is such that it creates a small bay (hence the name Bahia Ballena which means «Whale Bay») which helps protect the beach from being completely exposed to the swells and currents of the open ocean.

When looked through, the binoculars show a stereoscopic photo of open ocean, suggesting that the island has disappeared.

The 1999 landscapes, as well as the subsequent Icehouses and Surfers series, call to mind Romantic paintings such as Caspar David Friedrich's Monk by the Sea (1809), in which a lone figure stands before the sublime vastness of an open ocean.

From the perspective of inner city pollution by aging diesel buses, cap - and - trade reduced the local city - scale pollution problem, but at the cost of the open ocean pollution problem:

What this piece says — once you bother to read it which Goddard counts on you failing to do — is there's a greater than 50 % chance of open ocean this year at the pole, with the pole possibly reachable by surface craft.

My wife and I live on the edge of a continent, where 5000 miles of open ocean meets the buckled, young lands of Oregon's coastline.

Third of open ocean sharks threatened with extinction.

For a decade or so, scientists have been studying the ocean carbon cycles by scattering trace amounts of iron over small patches of open ocean.

In future one can probably expect stretches of open ocean even at the start of the Arctic winter, so increasingly unstable atmosphere — and therefore positive AO (and NAO) even during the northern hemisphere cold months.

It's just around 3,000 miles of open ocean until you reach Antarctica.

Coastal and equatorial upwelling bring an enormous amount of DIC to the surface, with subsequent transport to the gyres of the open ocean, causing declines in open ocean surface pH at rates that are much faster than possibly attributed to atmospheric diffusion.

Scientists use a new remote - controlled robot to capture data from the middle of an open ocean typhoon.

This current only exists because of the open ocean that surrounds Antarctica.