Sentences with phrase «sited near shore»
If this project were to proceed, it would be the first time anywhere in the world that a large industrial wind turbine project had been sited near shore in a fresh water lake that is this close to an Ontario Heritage Site and highly populated residential communities.
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Nearby highway traffic, waves lapping at the shore of the Gulf of Mexico, or a tree falling in the forest near the Louisiana site can all swamp the gravitational waves.
In addition to Delaney's cabled network, the program includes five other sites scattered from the tip of South America to the waters near Greenland, where swarms of instruments will shuttle up and down cables and fly through the water on robots controlled from shore.
As a result, the entire northern portion of Honshu, Japan's largest island, moved about 1 meter toward the east, with one site near the temblor's epicentre sliding 5.4 meters horizontally and sinking 1.1 meters — a sudden subsidence that aggravated the damage from the tsunami that slammed the shore minutes later.
The data, posted at the aquarium's Web site, is part of a fifteen - year monitoring study to track changes in near - shore ecosystems that will inform scientists and fuel policy makers as they make decisions about the land.
The absolute best SCUBA diving sites in the state of Hawaii are along Maui's west and south shores in West Maui (near Lahaina) and South Maui (near Kihei).
In general, sites begin on a beach, rock - covered shore or low coastal cliff, where near - shore shallows from 10 to 50 yards in width lead to the upper end of a sloping reef at depths of 25 to 30 feet.
For shore diving, add a pair of sturdy - soled dive boots and a change of clothes, as many launch sites are near dive shops or beach bars with showers.
West End has numerous reefs each ranging from near shore to sites located off Indian Cay and Wood Cay.
Viti Levu is a large island (in Fijian terms) and when the rains fall during the summer period, the run - off can reduce visibility at sites near to shore in places like Pacific Harbour and Rakiraki.
Given the enormous number and variety of dive sites so near to the shore, Sulawesi is quite possibly one of the best resort diving destinations in the world.
Salang is blessed with the best shore diving on Tioman Island, and is the nearest village to the majority of the off shore dive sites.
The smaller site of Topoxté is located on an island near the southern shores of the Yaxhá Lagoon.
With dive sites so near to shore and a large choice of land - based accommodation on nearby Mabul Island, Sipadan is really a destination that favours diving from a resort.
Tobacco Caye offers the best shore diving in Belize, and is only ten minutes from more than 20 of the best dive sites in Belize also centrally located near all Three of Belize's famous Atolls.
Occasionally we make shore dives along the coast allowing us to access dive sites out of the range of our boats, such as the beautiful wreck in Tabaiba, near Santa Cruz.
After some diving on the North shore (Amed), and the eastern shore (Candi Dasa), we settled on Pemuteran Bay as a launching point for a bunch of dive sites near the National...
Thawing permafrost, melting sea ice, and rising sea levels along the Alaskan shore has eroded the coastline near a Defense Department early warning radar site.