"The window ledges are filthy and there's a lot of asthma about, " Mrs Barton said.

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Despite the chilly weather, packs of usually clothed men and women line up on the rocky ledges to launch themselves into the water.

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The 11 sq km (1100 hectares) area of seabed, includes kelp forests, rocky reef habitat and limestone ledges encrusted in marine life.

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Stairs have been sliced into the coastal rocks allowing swimmers to jump off ledges, or you can ease into the sea via a ladder.

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They are now hanging off the platform on small portable ledges, out of reach of its workers, reports the BBC's Daniel Sandford in Moscow.

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Beachrock: ledges of rock formed within the body of the beach consisting of sand grains cemented by calcium carbonate and formed by chemical processes.

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Terry Studley, from Portland, has been fishing for crabs and scallops on an area of seabed called Stennis Ledges near Chesil Beach for several years.

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The former firefighter will make his way along the underwater shelves and ledges that run around the banks of the loch, about 30ft below the surface, at two miles a day.

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The back of the lead bus in the McCain convoy is always crammed with as many of reporters as will fit -- some hunched over on ledges, others squeezed shoulder-to-shoulder in bench seats -- as the Arizona senator conducts free-ranging conversations that has come to be a campaign trademark.

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