Sentences with phrase «open water ocean»

As Fred immerses himself in the life of a pub owner, Elly takes the ferry out to a nearby island where she — to the disbelief of the locals — is consumed by her ritual of open water ocean swimming, pushing herself to the limits.

Not exact matches

You can't avoid sharks if you swim in the ocean — it's open water, after all.

The better analogy, he says, is that the drop of water opens to the ocean and in the opening, takes the ocean in and becomes the ocean.

You missed the point: A creator, fine - tuner god is a far cry from a god that can walk on water, make pigs run into the sea, order angels to kill all first born or split open oceans to save his favorite people.

«The great heart of compassion» (mahakaruna - cittam) is the inmost essence of the Divine in Mahayana Buddhism, (D. T. Suzuki, Outlines of Mahayana Buddhism (London, 1907), p. 292 and passim) and this heart is open to all men; just as the light of the moon is reflected in all kinds of water, the muddiest puddle as in the crystal - clear mountain lake and the endless ocean, so this divine heart of love reveals itself in all levels of mankind.

Wild Alaskan sockeye salmon are caught in the ocean waters of the Cook Inlet, having spent 2 - 4 years in the open sea.

We haven't changed the recipe since first opening in 1983 - it's made with sustainable wild Alaska Pollock, caught in Alaska's ocean waters, hand - dipped in our signature seasoned beer batter and cooked to crispy perfection.

We either are going to continue our addiction to dirty, dangerous fossil fuels or we're going to take a better path, the new path towards renewables and we're going to open up our ocean waters to offshore wind.»

Mr. Glaser said he was particularly taken with a wooden keg that Gov. DeWitt Clinton used in 1825 to pour water from Lake Erie into the Atlantic Ocean to mark the opening of the Erie Canal.

Its ancestors may have left the ocean for fresh water when sea - level rise opened up new habitats about 6 million years ago.

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.

But the real rains start in July, as storm after storm churns and sweeps across the open plains, rinsing the dust from the air, before spinning out into the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Findings include a discovery that surface waters in the open Arctic Ocean release heat - trapping methane gas into the atmosphere at a «significant» rate

SkySails Long before Malcolm McLean's first cargo ship took to the open waters, merchant traders were unfurling their sails and letting the wind sweep them across the oceans.

More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes living in the sea.

«Once you get into the open ocean, there are relatively few and sometimes no rules governing what you can and can't take out of the water,» Shiffman says.

None of the species were known — or expected — to survive a transoceanic rafting voyage between continents, largely because the open ocean is considered to be a harsher environment for creatures used to more hospitable waters of the coasts.

That system — which includes tags, sound receivers and software — was initially designed to provide a more accurate picture of how young salmon migrate from their birthplace in Columbia River Basin waters to the open Pacific Ocean.

The scientists also identified carbon fluxes where further research would be needed to reduce uncertainties, including the exchange of carbon between shelf waters and the open ocean.

Coastal waters play an important role in the carbon cycle by transferring carbon to the open ocean or burying it in wetland soils and ocean sediments, a new study shows.

Scientists are keeping a close watch on variables that might affect life in the open ocean, including depleted oxygen levels caused by a feeding frenzy from oil - and gas - eating microbes, and the unknown effects of dispersants, which break the oil into droplets but may keep it suspended in the water.

Industry and environmentalists agree that newly opening waters in the Arctic Ocean should be off - limits to fishing

They report in Global Biogeochemical Cycles that, of the carbon entering coastal waters from rivers and the atmosphere, about 20 percent is buried while 80 percent flows out to the open ocean.

One technique is to build a steel or concrete column, open to the ocean below the water line but closed at the top.

«These devices can be in open ocean and deep water, maybe 50 to 100 miles off the coast,» Coe said.

The Malaspina Expedition, led by the Spanish National Research Council, has demonstrated that there are five large accumulations of plastic debris in the open ocean that match with the five major twists of oceanic surface water circulation.

When that edge moves off the continental shelf into deep open ocean waters, the productivity drops off and the marine organisms that feed larger wildlife are out of reach, scientists say.

This is not only because harvesting from relatively shallow waters is easier than in the open ocean, but also because fish are much more abundant near the coastal shelf, due to coastal upwelling and the abundance of nutrients available there.

The scientists were able to use a test scenario in the Greenland Sea to demonstrate that ALES + returns water levels for ice - covered and open ocean regions which are significantly more precise than the results of previous evaluation methods.

This makes it possible to precisely measure the altitude of the ocean water which reaches the surface through ice cracks and openings.

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.

Phosphorus is a key nutrient that could, if it reaches the open ocean, enrich waters of the Arctic Ocean, potentially stimulating growth of the marine food chain, the study's authors ocean, enrich waters of the Arctic Ocean, potentially stimulating growth of the marine food chain, the study's authors Ocean, potentially stimulating growth of the marine food chain, the study's authors said.

The team chose the specific area examined in the study because it is Earth's warmest open ocean region and a primary source of heat and water vapor to the atmosphere.

Other nations, such as Norway, have already begun fishing in newly opened Arctic waters — meaning the U.S. - controlled zone could be a very small refuge unless the government can persuade the seven other nations with Arctic Ocean claims to follow suit.

It is not clear yet how much of the phosphorus being released from the ice sheet is reaching the open ocean, but if a large amount of phosphorus coming off the glacier makes it to the sea, the nutrient could rev up biological activity of Arctic waters, according to the study's authors.

If the water remained in the channel, the water would eventually cool to a point where it was not melting much ice, but the channels allow the water to flow out to the open ocean and warmer water to flow in, again melting the ice shelf from beneath.

Cheung and his colleague used modeling to predict how 802 commercially important species of fish and invertebrates react to warming water temperatures, other changing ocean properties, and new habitats opening up at the poles.

The trends revealed by the data were clear: The average albedo in the northern area of the Arctic Ocean, including open water and sea ice, is declining in all summer months (May - August).

The council also predicts that by the end of the century the famously ice - locked Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean will become open water in summer.

The event is organized by the Coney Island Polar Bear Club, a group of dedicated open - water swimmers who brave the numbing ocean every Sunday from November through April.

But now I really think this is going to transform oceanography by giving us a persistent presence in the ocean — a presence that doesn't require a boat, can operate in any weather condition, and can stay within the same water mass as it drifts around the open ocean.»

Images from the Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, hinted that Europa has a relatively thin crust in which fissures sometimes open up and let water escape from a subsurface ocean.

For this project, they and their teams are collaborating with engineers from MBARI to test new ways of adaptively sampling oceanographic features such as open - ocean eddies, swirling masses of water that move slowly across the Pacific Ocean, which can have large effects on ocean microcean eddies, swirling masses of water that move slowly across the Pacific Ocean, which can have large effects on ocean micrOcean, which can have large effects on ocean microcean microbes.

«We've got so much open water in the Arctic right now that has absorbed so much energy over the summer that the ocean has warmed.

The federal government is about to open up to wind energy development vast swaths of deep ocean waters, and states and wind park developers are vying to be the first to seize the new frontier.

Though relatively small in comparison to the open ocean, the coastal zones are where an extremely large amount of the carbon dioxide is exchanged between air and water.

As a result of atmospheric patterns that both warmed the air and reduced cloud cover as well as increased residual heat in newly exposed ocean waters, such melting helped open the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time [see photo] this summer and presaged tough times for polar bears and other Arctic animals that rely on sea ice to survive, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

But circumstantial evidence had suggested otherwise: The wasps somehow traveled hundreds of kilometers to colonize a formerly lifeless volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean called Anak Krakatoa, and they have been snarled in nets attached to a research airplane flying over open water in the Pacific.

«This study shows for the first time that the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from the bottom waters could be a major contributor to lower pH in coastal oceans and may lead to more rapid acidification in coastal waters compared to the open ocean,» said Cai, the paper's lead author and an expert in marine chemistry and carbon's movement through coastal waters.

The discovery, involving cold, extra salty water — brine — that forms within openings in sea ice, adds to our understanding of how ice sheets interact with the ocean, and may improve our ability to forecast and prepare for future sea level rise.