Offshore breakwater: structure parallel to the shore, usually positioned in the sea, that protects the shore from waves.
The group was at least eight miles (13 kilometers) from shore, and waves more than twice their size tossed them.
At the Jersey shore, where waves of 12 feet and moderate flooding were possible, Brick Township and Toms River issued voluntary evacuation orders for areas still recovering from Sandy.
Longshore current: a movement of water parallel to the shore, caused by waves.
The frozen lake not level but mounded along the shore, as if the waves had turned to ice in the act of falling.
Outside, waves lapped the black shore, and tinny music blared from a party way down the beach.
They have designed a smartphone app which plays sounds such as birds in woodland or waves lapping against the shore.
In the streets in the afternoon, on party buses at night, or in clubs that pulse until the early hours, hips sway as naturally as waves crashing against the shore of the nearby coast.
However, two questions remain, especially for those CMOs focused on retail conversions: Will the first three data waves gradually recede from shore, revealing that spending data alone is the quickest way to purchase?
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But as tourism to the neighbouring city of Santa Marta increased, backpackers discovered Taganga, and soon the number of gringos began to compete with the number of locals, dive shops opened up all over town, and the sound of thumping reggaeton began drowning out the sound of waves crashing against the shore throughout night.
You may try to explode it, blow it up, whatever, depending on what you want to do with it, and in this case, they're going to send waves coming in off the shore, you know, lapping in off of Lake Pontchartrain, and they want to try to understand why the flood protection built by the Army Corps of Engineers did not hold up.
When times turn bad, most corporate investors disappear, and the waves they create crash violently on the shore.
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Actor Woody Harrelson is often seen skimming over the waves near his ranch on Maui's North Shore ("He's a hazard, " one observer says), and actress Leslie Bibb has also given it a try.
Scour: removal of underwater material by waves or currents, especially at the toe of a shore protection structure.
But since these are linked by undersea cable to its mainland, they can only be placed around 50km from the shore, reducing the amount of advance warning they give of imminent waves.
Sailing on San Francisco Bay rather than miles out on the ocean, Oracle envisioned the 72-foot cats wowing both spectators lining the shore and TV viewers alike by skimming across the top of the waves.
Skimming ships returned to shore in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Alabama, as gusts and high waves made the procedure unsafe.
The tide was high, and for a hundred feet away from the shore, the water appeared to be the colour of green milk, the waves having sluiced chalk from the foreshore and cliffs, which stained the sea white.
One night after Sandy, I saw footage on the news of a beautiful beach-side house at the Jersey Shore that was leaning over as though its third floor was trying to whisper to the waves.
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