Sentences with phrase «of tidal channels»

Congrejo shoals are a series of tidal channels with new islands forming between them.

Not exact matches

Tankers exiting Vancouver harbor must transit through the shallow Second Narrows channel during «high slack water» — a short tidal window of about 20 minutes that provides loaded tankers with less than two metres of under - keel clearance.

The popular «race» of rubber ducks along a tidal channel into the coastal pond is a major fundraiser for the wildlife sanctuary and features a remarkable Grand Prize — dinner for two anywhere in the world, including airfare and two nights» lodging.

After the powerful current of the East River — which is actually a tidal channel — damaged the rotors and broke off some of the original fiberglass and steel blades, the company earlier this month whittled its test bed down to two turbines with new aluminum — magnesium blades 16 feet (five meters) in diameter.

«The East River is a good tidal channel that links the Long Island Sound to the ocean,» says Trey Taylor, the company's president and head of market development.

Under the weight of expectation from his father to return the family to the White House, the success of his deceased brothers and a lot of alcohol, Edward goes for a spin with «Boiler Room Girl» Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara), drives the car off a bridge into a tidal channel, and leaves the accident scene with his passenger still trapped inside the vehicle.

Such channels are normal tidal channels that allow exchange of water between the outer shelf and inner shelf during tidal cycles.

17 - 18:00 - Marco Gonzales Maya site is the area about 1/4 mile north of the last tidal channel.

Strong tidal currents flow in and out through the cut and are especially strong at mid-water in the center of the channel.

Shallow, protected sites can be found right off the beach at many resorts, and a wide range of additional coral formations, tidal channels and forming reefs are never far away.

Drift through tidal channels in the company of gray reef sharks.

In British Columbia, tidal fluctuations of up to 17 feet can generate tremendous currents through the narrow channels and straits.

This channel sees the the greatest volume of tidal water on earth.

The Los Angeles — based artist selected locations in the San Francisco Bay Area that are emblematic of distinct urban - redevelopment episodes: Islais Landing, a former tidal bog that once served as a sewage channel and slaughterhouse dumping ground; San Francisco City Hall, a Beaux Arts monument whose harmonious proportions and massive domed rotunda are meant to pique municipal pride (and good civic behavior); and Pacific Shores Center, a 106 - acre, 1.7 - millionsquare - foot corporate complex, planned during the dot - com glut of the late 1990s and built on marshland south of the city.

The concentrated currents — tidal influence is, however, more pronounced here than in the Caribbean — between barrier islands form so - called «Riffbögen» (shoals and subaqueous ridges) at both sides of the channel.

The Sundarbans: a near - mythic landscape of forest and swamp, byzantine river channels and tidal mud flats, one of the last strongholds of the highly endangered Bengal tiger.

And through the use of hydraulic rotary cutter head pipeline dredges and Rolligon amphibious ditcher - spreaders, use, instead, these navigation channel dredge spoils to reconstruct the fringe marshes and tidal creeks of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

But if you're Verdant Power and the force of water in the channel has shredded the blades of two previous versions of the tidal turbines you've installed as part of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project (RITE) you probably have to think about it more often than you'd tidal turbines you've installed as part of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy Project (RITE) you probably have to think about it more often than you'd Tidal Energy Project (RITE) you probably have to think about it more often than you'd like.

Your average New Yorker probably doesn't think very often about the force of water flowing in the East River (actually not a river at all, but a tidal channel).