Sentences with phrase «shallow part»

Now, new research suggests human activities since the Industrial Revolution have tripled the amount of mercury in shallow parts of the ocean, posing a threat to human health worldwide.

Coral usually grows in reefs, and coral reefs often look like giant, colorful rocks in shallow parts of the ocean.

Tau Ceti's planets could very well be dominated by the mineral olivine at shallow parts of the mantle and have lower mantles dominated by ferropericlase,» explains Shim.

The second dive of the day was in Keruo Channel and the current provided a good opportunity for a drift dive along this wall covered in gorgonians, sponges and by the southern shallower part, soft and hard coral.

[Response: A reducedincreased optical depth means that the distance you can see things gets smaller — just like murky water which doesn't let you see the bottom at depth greater than the very shallow parts.

Acupuncturists keep much of their work in shallower parts of the muscle tissue, dry needling involves sinking the needle about 80 to 100 millimeters deep.

It also doesn't help that Texas is over a shallow part of the Ogallala Aquifer which, due to unsustainable use, is running drier each year.

In a shallow part of the sea floor underneath the ice shelf, a bedrock protrusion, named the Bawden Ice Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decades.

Therefore, the deepest part of the lunar mantle is softer than the shallower part.

But only two central segments experienced extreme slip, and that high slip was concentrated far offshore on the shallower part of the fault (within the figure's yellow contours).

Despite prodigious total slip, shallower parts of the rupture weakly radiated at high frequencies, whereas deeper parts of the rupture radiated strongly at high frequencies.

Because the slow slips occur deep and at discrete intervals, they regulate the rate at which stress accumulates on the shallower part of the fault zone, which moves in fits and starts.

But their major effect would have come from radiation, which the KU astrophysicist said would have packed doses equivalent to one CT scan per year for every creature inhabiting land or shallower parts of the ocean.

That was about when much of Laurasia's deciduous forests started to die out, after which the continents were only intermittently connected by land bridges — shallow parts of the ocean floor that were exposed when ice age glaciers tied up vast amounts of ocean water and sea levels were lower.

Shakhova and her colleagues investigated releases of methane from permafrost underneath a shallow part of the Arctic Ocean called the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, which sits in the ocean north of Siberia and east of the Lena River Delta.

The events occurred along the shallow part of the Hikurangi subduction zone that runs along and across New Zealand.

In the shallowest part of the survey area closest to the southern side of island, the seafloor levels out into a nearly flat shelf, which is likely important in explaining the pattern of redistribution for the eroded material, Ferrini said.

To their surprise, the biologists found Asian carp eggs even in a narrow, shallow part of the river.

Off the shores of Grand Cayman lies the famous «Stingray City» where visitors head to pet and interact with rays in a shallow part of Grand Cayman's North Sound.

When first starting to teach your pet to swim, begin in the shallow part of a pool and stay beside them until they are comfortable.

We take a short swim in the shallow part.

Only downside of beach was the seagrass and a touch rocky to walk in at the shallow part of the ocean.

Most of the dive sites are pristine coral reefs with colorful soft corals and crinoids, vast staghorn coral fields and huge table corals in the shallow parts, giant elephant ears in the deeper parts, giant sponge barrels along the slopes.

The topography varies from slope diving, interrupted by short walls, bolders, rocks are plateaus in the shallow parts.

The shallowest part of the wreck is only around 5 meters where the super structure stretches upwards, the deepest part is around 28m — 30m where the bow has settled into the sand.

All the rooms were beautiful, comfortable, the pool has a shallow part for small kids and the garden has small spots were you can rest and watch the birds, squirrels, and vegetation, only a few steps from the beach, the people who works in the house were very nice, the chef incredible.

Most of the dive sites are pristine coral reefs with colourful soft corals and crinoids, vast staghorn coral fields and huge table corals in the shallow parts, giant elephant ears in the deeper parts, giant sponge barrels along the slopes.

The coral gardens in the shallower parts of the bay are in pristine condition, though the area is busy with speedboats and longtails so you must be careful diving here.

On the shallow part, between all the staghorn corals and table corals, you will find lots of anenome fish and beautiful batfish.

In the shallower part of the reef, staghorn corals form a safe haven for reef fish and turtles.

The shallow part of this site begins at around 4m with a small wall going down to 12m consisting of a very colourful hard coral reef where big schools of drummers and rainbow runners can be seen passing by as well as a variety of other reef life.

A protected and shallow part of Oracabessa Bay, Button Beach is the spot for a grill shack serving Jamaican jerk favourites, a drink stand and a naturalistic Jungle Gym area for kids.

In the shallower parts of the reef Seahorses, Scorpion Fish and cleaner shrimps are found in abundance.

Unfortunately, the currents wash up the debris into the shallow part of the reef.

There are wooden stakes in the shallow parts of the ocean along the northern and eastern coastline that are used to cultivate seaweed.

A very special feature of the beach is «Lola», the 400 kg pig that will be there to welcome you at the beach bar or in the shallow parts of the surf.

The shallow parts of the bay are magnificent, the majestic table corals spread to catch the rays of the sun.

The shallowest part is about 12 - 14 metres from the surface and the rock falls away to over 50 metres deep.

Diving the sheltered area of the reef in order to avoid the stronger currents of this early morning, the guests were amazed by the extensive hard coral garden that cover the shallow part of this dive site.

As the divers reached the shallower part of the reef, the hard coral garden and schooling fusiliers and surgeonfishes made for quite an impression and great ending to this dive.

The visibility, even though limited, did nt keep the divers from encountering a Barramundi Grouper, a couple of Wobbeng Sharks, a Pygmy Seahorse, a Crocodile Flathead together with other macro life found (nudibranchs and flatworms) on the hard and soft coral present especially on the shallower part of the dive site.

Mayhem 1 woke us up with good visibility and incredibles coral gardens on the shallow part of the plateau, while a wobbegong was sleeping on the top of a Lettuce Coral.

Finally, in the shallow part of the dive a huge giant clam was spotted!

The highlight of this dive, though, was the amount of smaller fishes hovering around the colorful soft coral garden in the shallower part of the reef.

In the middle of the dive when we started to make our way back to the shallower part of the dive site we spotted very big oceanic manta.

This is one of the best sites to find bigger fish, with reef sharks and eagle rays being regular sightings in both the deeper and the shallower parts.

Garden eels have colonised the shallow parts.