Sentences with phrase «off coast of»

Every year, the nomadic grays take two to three months to swim from the lagoons of Baja California, where they breed and nurse their young, to the feeding grounds off the coast of Alaska.

The study, conducted off the coast of Australia during the turtle nesting season, also found the behavior of healthy green turtles suggests that they do not perceive tiger sharks as a major threat during nesting season.

The researchers analyzed a marine sediment core collected off the coast of the Eastern Cape of South Africa, close to where the Great Kei River meets the ocean.

Sharks gather off the coast of California each year and feast on seals and sea lions, but not humans.

Crewmembers will spend the next two months dropping the 50 - pound devices, called Argo floats, into the seas between New Zealand and Mauritius, off the coast of Madagascar.

This adorable sloth is almost half the size of its mainland sibling and is found only on Escudo de Veraguas, off the coast of Panama, but it's critically endangered

A tsunami alert was issued for the US west coast, and then cancelled, after a major earthquake struck at sea off the coast of Alaska

This type of model could work for other fisheries — such as a squid fishery off the coast of South Africa — that are susceptible to the vagaries of currents, says Jean - Paul Robin, an expert on cephalopod fisheries at the University of Caen, France.

Before the MS Explorer sank off the coast of Antarctica seven years ago, passengers fled the ship in inflatable lifeboats in a scene reminiscent of the Titanic disaster.

In the first large - scale attempt to track fish with an acoustic tracking array on the sea floor, David Welch, of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Nanaimo, British Columbia, and his colleagues deployed a line of receivers on the sea floor, spaced roughly 1 km apart, off the coast of Vancouver Island.

Now chemists in Britain and the US have made the powerful antifungal agent papuamine, a rare molecule that was previously found only in sponges that grow on a coral reef near South Lion Island off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

The broad area of cooler - than - average water off the coast of North America from Alaska (top center) to the equator is a classic feature of the cool phase of the PDO.

The larvae of the Argentinean flying squid hatch near the River Plate estuary, off the coast of Argentina, every year in July.

The researchers drilled down 1,500 meters below the seafloor in two places off the coast of Sumatra, extracting narrow cylinders of sediment.

This past summer, Ari Daniel Shapiro, 30, was part of a research team that tracked killer whales off the coast of northwestern Canada.

Researchers who observed great white sharks scavenge a whale carcass off the coast of South Africa found that multiple animals fed beside each other at the same time, displaying relaxed behavior such as a belly - up posture and a lack of ocular rotation.

Eventually you found a home for the institute at Texas A & M and set up a series of intensive underwater surveys and excavations around the United States, the Caribbean, and off the coast of Turkey.

Such vulnerability was shown on 27 March, when three scuba divers were arrested for trying to cut an undersea cable off the coast of Egypt, where several critical cables come together in one of the internet's «choke points ``.

Small islands off the coast of Tasmania provide an opportunity for protected devils to live in the wild.

A DIVER carrying a computer that tries to recognise dolphin sounds and generate responses in real time will soon attempt to communicate with wild dolphins off the coast of Florida.

In the event your de-extincted animal doesn't work out and, say, wreaks havoc in your local ecosystem, wiping out long - established flora and fauna, having the extended warranty covers all costs associated with the capture and transport of the animal to the Island of Misfit Toys, formerly known as Isla Nublar, off the coast of Costa Rica.

The story begins on 7 August 1999, when a female humpback whale smiled for the camera off the coast of Brazil.

Combining computer models constructed largely by Princeton University researchers with on - ship observations, the researchers determined the movement and energy of the waves from their origin on a double - ridge between Taiwan and the Philippines to when they fade off the coast of China.

The Guadalupe ran aground and sank in a reef off the coast of the Dominican Republic during a storm.

DEADLY DISASTER The quake that ruptured off the coast of Sumatra on December 26, 2004, was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, mostly because it set off an enormous tsunami that destroyed nearby island communities.

So send in a bot, says David Holland, an oceanographer at New York University, who teamed up with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to deploy a five - foot - long autonomous submarine beneath an iceberg off the coast of Greenland.

One summer, I spent 2 weeks at a field station — Great Gull Island in Long Island Sound, off the coast of Connecticut — banding terns.

Burrowing into the impact structure responsible for the demise of the dinosaurs, a team of researchers has achieved one of its main goals, with rocks brought up from 670 meters beneath the sea floor off the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula.

Their results, published December 5 in Science, show that friction on the fault was remarkably low during the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku - Oki earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan in March 2011 and triggered a devastating tsunami.

The thick but stable layer of sediment where tectonic plates meet off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra should have limited the power of an earthquake, seismologists had predicted.

Gladys was a Category 4 hurricane which remained off the coast of the U.S.

Union warship Outer Banks, North Carolina On December 31, 1862, the USS Monitor sank in rough waters off the coast of North Carolina, carrying 16 Union sailors to their deaths.

Over the next half century, Bass led groundbreaking studies of Late Bronze Age (1600 - 1100 B.C.) shipwrecks off the coast of Turkey, along with sites from many other periods.

A 9 - mile wide (14 kilometers) asteroid struck off the coast of Mexico 66 million years ago, wiping out 75 percent of life on Earth.

Future City Dongtan China watches over every drop of water On a small, thinly populated island about 14 miles off the coast of Shanghai, a city is rising that could spell salvation for the 1 billion people expected to live in China's urban areas by 2045.

ONE tough fish seems to be plumbing the depths of a marine «dead zone» off the coast of Namibia.

Huybers and his colleagues are now working to tease out the ice age signal from another medium - rate spreading center, the Juan de Fuca Ridge, off the coast of the U.S. Pacific Northwest.

In the Geophysical Research Letters paper, Maya Tolstoy, a marine geophysicist at Columbia University, reports that she found the same correlation at the East Pacific Rise, a fast seafloor spreading region off the coast of Mexico.

This month, NASA aircraft will begin studying a natural atmospheric laboratory off the coast of Namibia, where a layer of smoke wafts over a low cloud deck.

But she didn't come from off the coast of Africa, as many tropical Atlantic storms do.

Some of those criticisms may be quelled by the new evidence, which comes from Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway in the Arctic Ocean.

Axial Seamount, an active underwater volcano located about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and Washington, appears to be erupting — after two scientists had forecast that such an event would take place there in 2015.

Now Weimerskirch's team has cracked the frigatebird's secrets by tracking the migrations of birds native to Europa in the Mozambique Channel, off the coast of south - east Africa, all over the Indian ocean and as far east as South - East Asia.

She recently joined M.I.T. researchers on a boat off the coast of Cape Cod where they were putting a new autonomous underwater vehicle through its spaces.

On Tuesday, Massachusettes Governor Deval Patrick announced than a more than 1,160 square mile area off the coast of Rhode Island will be opened up for commercial wind leases.

The federal licenses for the Diablo Canyon plant, near San Luis Obispo, are valid for at least another decade, but opponents were citing seismic and tsunami - related concerns even before last week's magnitude 9.0 quake off the coast of northern Japan

Recently, he and his colleagues examined samples of a mud core extracted from between 860 metres and 1626 metres beneath the sea floor off the coast of Newfoundland.

Next summer, they are hoping to check out the ocean floor off the coast of Long Beach, California, in search of deep sea coral.

In addition to the Asia heat wave, those events were the record global heat in 2016 and the growth and persistence of a large swath of high ocean temperatures, nicknamed «the Blob,» in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska.

Off the coast of South Australia, an unremarkable setting conceals one of the ocean's most spectacular events.