Madocks used the "great embankment" to reclaim hundreds of acres of land from the sea and, in turn, brought prosperity to the area, linking the slate quarries with the sea.
There are no high-rises out here and the roads are narrow and winding with glimpses of the South China Sea at every other turn.
It also led to a smaller volume of fertile floodwater entering the Mediterranean Sea, which in turn produced a sharp fall in the number of fish being landed by Egypt's fishermen.
Peterhead skipper Peter Bruce said conservationists wanted to turn the North Sea into an aquarium.
Along the way, in its brooding, central section the ballet suggests some struggle and menace as the surrounding men and women, 15 in all, turn into a sea of trouble for the two lovers.
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Scene Four: Al is pestering us again about how we have to tighten our belts or else the global sea level will rise dramatically and turn our coastal cities into Waterworld.
Lower turbines should, together with clever design and material selection, help reduce the turbines' weight, and thus their need for ballast, which in turn should reduce sub-sea costs.
Sharp was formerly head coach at the Manley Sea Eagles in the NRL and Hull FC may turn to another Australian for a replacement.
Investment banks ought, in theory, to be able to turn a handsome profit from this great sea of money as it swirls around the world.
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You feel a little nibble on the end of your flipper, you turn around and there's this sea lion wanting to play with you, wanting you to chase it.
Plans to turn the canoe-kayak centre into an entertainment sea park have similarly gone nowhere.
The Wave Glider is the first autonomous device to turn ocean waves into energy: a robot for the sea.
And its newly discovered offshore fields of oil and natural gas may turn out to be bigger than those in the North Sea in the 1960s.
The route heads inland to dry and hot Llanca before reaching the turn-off for Cadaques, where the Pyrenees meet the sea.
The RNLI's Exmouth inshore lifeboat was launched, but the crew of the Wavelet managed to turn the yacht round and pull the unconscious man from the sea, a Maritime and Coastguard Agency spokesman said.
At the 10km mark, the walk takes a steep turn: the next kilometre is a scramble from about 300m above sea level to almost 500m, before a relatively quick descent to Hot Water Beach.
Like the Dead Sea, when we keep all that is fresh and good for ourselves, we turn our lives into a briny soup of salty tears.
As its grand schemes falter, the state is pressing ahead with a more modest plan to turn between 400 and 800 acres (160-320 hectares) of the sea into shallow ponds.
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Using Linux-based servers working in parallel, they generate a computer model of how a drill bit must twist and turn to hit one or more formations as much as 9, 000 meters below the sea floor.
That, in turn, predicts at any given moment which regions of the bay will wash pollutants out to sea and which will confine them to the coast.
This, in turn, would put even more pressure on those airlines which have managed to keep their heads above a sea of red ink.
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