Sentences with phrase «to swim to shore»

Natural oils and its fine structure make it highly water - repellent, which is vital for the fish eagle, as despite being a powerful bird with a 2 - metre wingspan it will sometimes catch a catfish too heavy for it to lift, so it must swim to shore with its prey.

The surf was breaking high, you see, and Brojen was swimming to shore dog - tired and feeble when an enormous wave lifted him up like a chip of wood and stranded him atop a huge flat rock that was sticking up perhaps 20 feet out of the sea.

I know a mom who jumped into a lake at a local park and swam to shore towing a 200 pound man who was having difficulty.

Failing to do that, he eventually swam to shore, sat on the beach for 15 minutes, and then walked back to the party he and Kopechne had departed from together.

After an argument, the woman swims to shore to clear her head.

We meet the passenger who opened the first door to safety, and another who stripped to his underwear in readiness for an impossible swim to shore.

Once you are out of the rip, then you can safely and easily swim to shore.

A story which claimed Polar Bears were drowning because of global warming was exposed as a fraud in which pictures of summer melt were presented as mid-winter scenes, along with the ludicrous claim that polar bears could not swim to shore to save their own lives.

One other legend has it that the pigs were survivors of a shipwreck and managed to swim to shore while another claims that the pigs had escaped from a nearby islet.

Though he had to swim to shore, Eastwood escaped serious injury.

En route to Seville, Juan and his servant Catalinón («coward») are shipwrecked but manage to swim to shore, where Juan promptly seduces, enjoys, and abandons the fisherman's daughter who comes to his aid.

They also think that the ship was deliberately sunk on the orders of its captain to prevent it from being seized by enemy forces: it was still anchored, and close enough to the coast for the crew to swim to shore.

Can you swim to shore if your boat capsizes?

It's located on an island just outside Drøbak — quite literally; you can swim to shore — and is famous because its soldiers sunk the German battle ship Blücher during WW2, thereby protecting the town from the intruders.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (# 13): «The film has a yellow submarine, a midlife - crisis - rattled filmmaker shooting a film he's completely uncertain about, an attempted revenge on a shark that ends with a swim to shore, etc..

Only star Helen Mirren manages to swim to shore.

As Keats says in the film, «The point of diving into a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore but to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water.

Suddenly, the man hears her scream and swims to shore to investigate only to be knocked unconscious by an off - screen culprit.

A dog that pinwheels off the boat racing at forty miles - per - hour needs lots of luck to survive and swim to shore.

Her brother was able to swim to shore but Lisa needed help.

In fact, the previous author of my region had actually capsized in rough seas, lost his laptop, camera, notes and all his belongings, but he survived, swimming to shore along with his fellow passengers, but I digress...

The Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles will at times, swim to the shore, crawl towards the beach, and bask under the sun.

The lifeboats weren't working and we had to jump off and swim to shore.

As they are returning home, passengers on the Costa Concordia have told stories of having to jump into the water and swim to shore.

Some of those who are missing may, however, have swum to shore and have not been accounted for yet.