Vollmer made regular trips to Australia to train in the ocean and swim with dolphins, which made racing in the flat water of an Olympic pool feel far simpler.
The alluring turquoise bottom, the flat glassy water begging to be interrupted.
Eight small boats exploring stretches of the Hudson opening to canoeists in the central Adirondacks all made it through seven moderate rapids interspersed with long flat-water stretches on a 7.3-mile trip through deep forests of evergreens and hardwoods.
And he was good-natured about it and said, can't you just keep one, one case for me, so that when I come in - and I said, I tell you what, you let me know when you're coming in and I'll run across the street and buy you a bottle of flat still water and have it on your table.
Calling my bluff, Ricardo navigated into a flat stretch of water and told me to check my skin for open cuts (piranha bait).
He said it was lucky that the plane landed flat in shallow water rather than nosediving or hitting deep water where it could have quickly been submerged.
But it precludes escape on a day when the water is as flat as a millpond.
The speedboat from the Kuala Besut ferry pier rides high on the waves, skipping along the water like a flat stone flung by a petulant giant.
German Stephan Feck lost his balance on his second dive, landing flat on his back in the water.
The flat-bottom boat balanced precariously just barely above water level, a skilled rower standing and pushing gondola-style from the back.
His mute and illiterate mother, and her extended family, raised her two sons in a small flat in Algiers with neither a lavatory nor running water.
This reminds us that not only is the world decidedly flat, but the influence of American culture spreads like water.
The flat, black-looking skin of the whale peaked above the water for just a few seconds before submerging again.
Connecticut Water Service, Inc. shares are currently trading trading flat on the day.
At 138 feet she's a navy-blue missile with a nearly flat deck, huge winches and an almost impossibly sharp bow that overhangs the water like a scimitar.
The water that drains away creates an instant skating rink, a moat of flat ice.
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Karl Hoffman, who lived in the flat, told jurors he had tried to put out the fire with a cup of water and a bottle of soft drink before a neighbour dialled 999.
Weighing 140kg, with hands like buckets and a face as flat as a plate, he waded into the marquee as if against a strong current of water and assumed a position in the corner.
Hydroforming uses water pressure (up to 15, 000 pounds per square inch) to force the flat steel against a one-sided tool, achieving the same result for half the cost.
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