Bar: fully or partially submerged mound of sand, gravel or other unconsolidated material built on the sea-bottom in shallow water by waves and currents.
Crossing expanses never remotely surveyed, they will gather 2.25 million data points about salinity, water temperature, waves, weather, fluorescence and dissolved oxygen.
Then you see the water, the waves are 20 feet high, they were when I was in New Jersey, when Atlantic City was evacuated, and again everybody is going in the opposite direction to you.
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"Strong waves pushed water inside the boat and one woman screamed causing a commotion that tilted the ship capsizing it, " one eye witness said.
The wind was whipping the water up into little waves, and very soon we got cold, so we wound our scarves back around our necks.
The glossy black fin and back of a minke whale rose a hundred yards astern, two yellow-striped dolphins broke water and plunged down again, and then the flow of the turned tide could be seen as a chop on the water, small standing waves that indicated the Minch was reversing its direction.
Each wind was given a name, which along with the colour of water or the height of waves was used to help forecast the weather.
Deep water: area where surface waves are not influenced by the sea-bottom.
Because of the distance that low-frequency sound waves can travel under water, a set of four ships emitting sound at 235 decibels could monitor 80% of the world's oceans for submarines.
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As we enter 2013, the waves are peaking, the water froths, and the boats bouncing on it creak and groan as they buckle under the strain.
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.
Another line, the GE Profile, automatically streams water into containers of any size using sound waves.
Longshore current: a movement of water parallel to the shore, caused by waves.
Cabo Surf Hotel in Los Cabos, Mexico, offers special soft boards for beginners and stand-up paddleboards for calm water, allowing even loyal sunbathers to hit the waves.
My car was enveloped by the waves... luckily when the water receded, I managed to start it up and revved it to a hill slope about 100m from my house.
From a height of between twenty and twenty-five feet above the waves, they heaved the corpse into the water.
The water is bathtub-warm, and there are no waves to contend with.
After the vessel was abandoned, it was hit by 40-miles-per-hour winds and 18-foot waves, which caused it to fill with water and sink.
Tethered to the seafloor 130 miles southeast of New Orleans in 2, 900 feet of water, Mars was built to withstand 71-foot waves and 140mph winds.
That power makes it easy to pop up onto a water-ski-size board and surf off across the waves.
"I've stopped counting at 150 surfers in the water, " says Barbara Parker, who has climbed the waves for 10 years.
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.
With an outstanding selection of rivers, there are choices suitable for all levels, from fun Grade 2 and 3 rapids, to hardcore rides with waves that will flip you into raging torrents of water (if that is your thing).
But the first waves of marine wind farms are being built in shallower water, nearer consumers, to the east of England and in the Irish Sea.
The sea which used to be clear blue was like mud water and it was as if it was boiling up and gaint waves were coimng on to the land.
The beach they go to has real sand, lots of it, with blankets and beach umbrellas, salt water, a refreshment stand, seagulls, dead crabs, sandbars, waves.
He loves the idea of the waves but he hates falling over and he really hates getting salt water in his eyes.
Ocean hits are worse than land hits, not just because of immense tidal waves, but because of the vast quantities of super-heated water vapor and dust that spread from the impact to shroud the entire Earth.
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