Shoreline: intersection of a specific water height with the shore or beach, e.g. the high water shoreline is the intersection of the high water mark with the shore or beach.
The man in his 30s came out of water at Shore Road beach, Poole, when a gust of wind caught his kite and dragged him 30m (100ft) to the promenade.
In Shawano (pronounced SHAW-NO), where a dam prevents the fish from going any farther, the water along shore was thick with flapping fins, as groups of males swarmed around each female, forcing the eggs out of her body and then fertilizing them.
The natural splendors of blue water, rocky shore, bright sky, and hilly terrain provide a serene setting for the eternal struggle of man versus man, man versus woman, and man versus his own worst instincts.
Programmers--sorry, seamen--hired from places like India and Russia would have their own cabins, work eight- or ten-hour stretches on either a day or night shift and have the rest of the time to sleep, play shuffleboard or take a water taxi to shore.
Longshore current: a movement of water parallel to the shore, caused by waves.
"Currently, the Navy uses dolphins or divers feeling with their hands in such difficult conditions as near-shore bubbly water, for example in the Gulf, " he said.
Oyster beds close to shore clarified the water, which allowed marsh grasses to grow.
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The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.
Further afield, Kenji World, (81-19) 695-3333, in northern Japan's Iwate prefecture, boasts a colossal onsen "beach" where warm water washes up on the shore (made of brownish soft board instead of sand).
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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.
So the city, in 1867, sank an immense cylinder, or crib, 2 miles from shore to pump fresh water back to the inhabitants.
Alone and weak from thirst, he stumbles down to the shore, tastes the salt water, and collapses on the beach.
Farming fish close to shore often causes contamination of water and seabeds, so the company has partnered with fish producers to devise a remotely-controlled fish pen that can drift with currents in the open sea.
The inn is set on Lake Wakatipu's northeastern shore, looking out across the water to the 6, 000-foot Humboldt Mountains.
The bottom line: off-shore, especially ultra-deep water, has been almost entirely responsible for sustaining increased global and U.S. production.
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However, about six hours later a lifeguard on the shore saw something bobbing in the water and went out to investigate.
Berm crest: ridge of sand or gravel deposited by wave action on the shore just above the normal high water mark.
He walked fifty feet downshore, stepped onto the pond, walked a wide loop on the solid stuff, turned to shore, started toward the black water.
He says he managed to steer his stricken vessel close into shore, preventing it from sinking in deep water where hundreds might have drowned.
The island is home to some 64, 000 Cape fur seals, which must swim across water that reaches depths of 20m just 50m from the shore.
Here mountains give way to an expanse of deserted white sand that runs hundreds of metres from shore at low tide, with the warm water waist-deep for hundred of metres more.
The footlocker-size ice cubes are plucked from the water by crane and fitted into the walk-in palace on the shore.
But using a park surveyor's map that gave the distance of the wreck from different points on shore, another sonar expert found the plane in 200 feet of water.
The tide has changed and a south wind forces me to land this particular day on the shore near the Tomales Bay Oyster Company, which sits across the water from Inverness.
The Spirit of Breydon, designed for the open water and tidal conditions of Breydon Water near Great Yarmouth, can also be used 60 miles (97km) off shore.
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Mr. KAISER: Well, Ike is moved off-shore of south of Cuba, into the Caribbean, and back over water which means perhaps a little bit of intensity increase as it again joins that source of energy over those warm waters.
On the opposite shore, glass-and-steel structures of breathtaking design were cantilevered over the water, all aglow.
As I floated near the shore, for example, I could spot Italian pilgrims baptizing one another in the shallow water.
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