Sentences with phrase «of slack tide»

This period is signaled by a series of bells that sound at the beginning and end of slack tide.

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Police inspectors soon realize that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, where the Slack River and the sea join at high tide and a small community of fishermen and oyster farmers live — among them, the Bréfort ferrymen, led by a patriarch nicknamed «The Eternal.»

Better to manage such that you can buy - and - hold for moderate lengths of time, with enough financial slack to tide over rough patches in the market.

Misty of Chincoteague centers on Pony Penning Day, when during slack tide, the ponies swim to Chincoteague and the foals are auctioned to raise money for the Chincoteague Fire Department.

At exactly slack tide, the A30s & A23s made their move, travelling swiftly north through Blackney Pass and (one might imagine) into the arms of the G3s, I11s, A34s, A36s and A12.

The tide was ebbing at the time, with slack a couple of hours away, so we didn't expect the new arrivals to come into our view soon.

The dive site «Tatawa Besar» was a particular favourite for all our guests, and they chose to do two dives here — at slack tide this is one of the most peaceful and beautiful sites in the park.

This is a dive site that changes every time you experience it, on a slack tide it can be a gorgeous dive for photographers, whereas on a strong ebb it can scare the most jaded of divers.

The second dive of the day was done during the slack tide in Nudi Rock.

The current was weakening towards slack — the moment between tides when the sea becomes motionless and kelp bulbs expose themselves to the calm pewter surface of Puget Sound.

At slack tide, daily time is essentially arrested, creating a brief window of time in which the normally turbulent waters are calm.

This timepiece measures slack tide — specifically the speed of the tide — and it is set to the day and time of Lamson's performance on the East River.