The Golden Gate Strait is the entrance to the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.

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During that October practice run, the Oracle team's upturned boat ended up drifting from the San Francisco Bay under the Golden Gate Bridge and four miles into the open Pacific Ocean before the team could get it under control.

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San Francisco is just seven square miles at the tip of a peninsula surrounded by the Pacific and San Francisco Bay, which meet at the Golden Gate.

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