Sentences with phrase «shallow waters near»

The tour will take you to reefs located in shallow waters near Playa Matapalo, Guanacaste.

And those same colorful coral formations extend upward into shallow waters near the shore, allowing snorkelers to experience the full diversity and splendor of this unique underwater environment.

Conch shells are usually found in shallow waters near the shore.

The scattered remains of the Cali wreck sit in clear shallow waters near George Town Harbor.

That's a question also asked about coral, which usually forms reefs in warm, shallow waters near the equator.

As the fish move upstream, they can mistakenly choose the wrong channel or get pushed by their brethren into shallow water near the river bank or above a submerged gravel bar.

After about 30 minutes, they had the fish in shallow water near the edge of the mangroves and Toby jumped in for a photo.

Located offshore, in the shallow water near Boat Station 1, Willy's Rock served as a sanctuary to a statue of the Virgin Mary in the island.

Not exact matches

Shayla Wiggins, 19, was searching for a water - based Pokemon character near Riverton, Wy., when she discovered a body near a bridge, where a man is thought to have drowned in shallow water, according to media reports.

Photo of the related Opisthoteuthis californiana; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Ed Bowlby, NOAA / Olympic Coast NMS; NOAA / OAR / Office of Ocean Exploration The many octopus species that live beyond the reach of vacationing snorkelers, scuba diving researchers and even near - shore commercial fisheries are relative unknowns compared with the more familiar shallow - water species.

Likely measuring between 1.2 - and 1.5 - meters long, the dolphin was about the same size as today's vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered cetacean, and it likely foraged in shallow, near - shore waters.

Plankton, crustaceans and fish, all food for wildlife, reproduce at the dynamic edge of the sea ice, where it floats over shallow near - shore waters.

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.

As one of the giant waves moves towards shore, the part nearest the cape meets shallower water first.

Exponentially less methane would be able to reach the atmosphere in waters that are thousands of feet deep at the very edge of the shallow seas near continents, which is the area of the ocean where the bulk of methane hydrates are,» Sparrow says.

InSAR uses a highly accurate radar to measure the change in distance between the satellite and ground surface, allowing the team to show that injecting water into the wells at high pressure caused ground uplift near the shallower wells, the release said.

In shallow waters of the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic coast of western Africa, C. peregrina lives on and near corallike colonies of polyps called hydroids.

Since water depth is generally shallow near coastlines, the tsunami can grow in size as it approaches land, becoming particularly hazardous along heavily populated coastlines such as the Southern California coastline.

Researchers tracked a shallow - water, near - shore species used for food: sea cucumbers.

Near Haney's workstation at Lake Attitash, a child splashed in the shallow water off a dock.

The researchers also determined that to achieve the best water quality in the Los Angeles River watershed, which covers 824 square miles and is the largest watershed in Los Angeles County, it could take 138,000 vegetated swales (shallow, sloped channels of vegetation) and 83,000 dry ponds (low - lying, depressed areas near rivers and lakes that typically are used to help clean stormwater).

The Soccoro Islands offer little in the way of shallow sites or colorful corals and the emphasis is on the larger marine life that congregates near the rocky slopes and pinnacles that rise from the deep water.

Although many whaling captains would not risk losing their ships to the treacherous sand bar shoals and narrow shallow water passage into the lagoon, enough bold whaling captains did and the beginning of the near extinction of the Pacific gray whale.

It usually stays in relatively shallow water, near kelp forests, drop - offs, or rocky bottoms and sand or mudflats.

Here, the near - shore water is generally shallow and, at reef's edge, underwater canyons provide ample opportunity to explore.

The shallow oceanic shelf and warm waters near Puerto López create perfect conditions for the whales to rest and raise newborn calves.

The gestation period is about 13.5 months and the calf is born head first (unusual for cetaceans) and near the surface of the warm, shallow waters.

On this Kauai beach near Princeville Resort, you can snorkel the longest and widest reef in the Hawaiian islands and swim in safe, shallow water during summer.

Two small islands are close to the reef — the nearest one can easily be accessed by walking through the shallow waters.

The beach near the hotel is a white sand beach with shallow water and small waves but traveling noth - west to El Golfo you'll find amazing black sand beaches Regards

As waves travel from deep to shallow water, they will break near the shoreline.

Come join the crew and be «blown - away» with Australian Kitesurfing Academy as they teach you how to master one of the fastest growing water sports in the world.Visit them at Lake Cootharaba (Noosa 20 minutes) where warm shallow waters meet the Great Sandy National Park or join them in the four wheel drive to the famous Blue Lagoon near Fraser Island.

Shakhova et al (2013) argue that bottom water temperatures are increasing more than had been recognized, in particular in near - coastal (shallow) waters.

While the shallow, near shore waters of this lake have been impacted by runoff, the offshore waters have been clearer in the last 97 years, due to the effects of warming and thermal stratification on nutrient (phosphorus) regeneration.

''... worked with two sediment cores they extracted from the seabed of the eastern Norwegian Sea, developing a 1000 - year proxy temperature record «based on measurements of δ18O in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma, a planktonic foraminifer that calcifies at relatively shallow depths within the Atlantic waters of the eastern Norwegian Sea during late summer,» which they compared with the temporal histories of various proxies of concomitant solar activity... This work revealed, as the seven scientists describe it, that «the lowest isotope values (highest temperatures) of the last millennium are seen ~ 1100 - 1300 A.D., during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, and again after ~ 1950 A.D.» In between these two warm intervals, of course, were the colder temperatures of the Little Ice Age, when oscillatory thermal minima occurred at the times of the Dalton, Maunder, Sporer and Wolf solar minima, such that the δ18O proxy record of near - surface water temperature was found to be «robustly and near - synchronously correlated with various proxies of solar variability spanning the last millennium,» with decade - to century - scale temperature variability of 1 to 2 °C magnitude.»

While temperatures on offshore reef environments have been > 17 - 18 deg C (likely due to oceanic influence from the Florida Current), shallow - water and nearshore environments have fallen well below 14 deg C (e.g., 10 - 11 deg C near Long Key).

Thanks to this propulsion system, the Gymnobot could be used in shallow, rocky water where conventional submersible robots can't go to film and study the marine life near the seashore.

There are at least three possible mechanisms for fluid migration into the shallow drinking - water aquifers that could help explain the increased methane concentrations we observed near gas wells (Fig. 3).

Where the water table is shallow — that is, where water saturates the soil at or near its surface, as in river valleys — the temperature rise of 2.5 C that Maxwell and Kollet test in the model is the main factor controlling whether the ground shrivels in the sun.

They explain the lesser warming in the East Pacific Ocean, near South America, as being due to the fact this region is kept cool by upwelling, rising of deeper colder water to shallower depths.