Sentences with phrase «over a shallow reef with»

On the best days, Manzanillo offers a steep drop, fast wall over a shallow reef with maybe even a barrel before dying down in the channel.

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You could call it that, all right, when you saw how the tides clashed with the wind over the shallow reefs round Blasket, and the long - toothed rocks came clear out with the sea running back off them, and the black sleek heads of the brave seals bobbing in the swells.

The researchers found that over a 15 - day period, the water temperatures were most extreme when the low tide period drifted to align with maximum sun heat during noon, and these conditions caused the warming of the shallow water on the reefs.

For two hundred years, fleets of treasure galleons stuffed with silver and gold and emeralds had plied the Caribbean Sea, crisscrossed it every which way, from Key West down to Cartagena, from the Yucatán over to the Windward Islands, and every so often, one of those unpredictable West Indian cyclones would come spinning across the Caribbean and slam half the fleet onto shallow reefs, which ripped open the hulls and spewed that treasure all over the ocean floor.

Named for its characteristic reef development, this dive site features a profile with two distinct reef zones over a distance of about 800 ft.. A shallow reef extends from sea level to 40 ft and a deeper reef begins at 70 ft, extending to more than 100 ft at the wall.

There is over 72 miles / 116KM of reef, many with drop offs starting as shallow as 25 ft / 7.5 m and continuing down to over 7000ft / 2134m, an incredible sight to see.

There is also over 60 miles / 100 km of reef with drop offs starting as shallow as 30ft descending to well over 5000ft / 1524m.

coral cover was positively correlated with the mean sea level experienced over the preceeding months... the overall picture for these shallow reefs is a positive one as they respond to increasing sea level and show rapid recovery from environmental disturbances.

Temperatures varied more than 10 - degrees - Celsius over a single tidal cycle and became most extreme when the low tide period aligned with maximum heating by the sun at noon, which warmed the shallow water on the reefs.