Sentence examples for Ocean swells from inspiring English sources

Ocean swells of 6 to 10 feet prevented the deployment of floating booms to contain the oil slick.

Ocean swells from these storms rattle around, creating waves that drum the ocean floor and move into the mantle.

Ocean swells are wind-waves generated by intense storms that journeys long distances as they propagate away from their generation zone.

Diana Nyad spent 29 hours in the water, battling asthma, shoulder pain and ocean swells.

The surviving crew scrambled into liferafts to endure ocean swells, gusting winds and frigid sea temperatures.

Without modern navigational instruments, the ocean swells and birds were used to guide them.

Madeira is the new Azores Like the Azores, the Portuguese island of Madeira, in the North Atlantic, gets large open-ocean swells that will satisfy seasoned surfers who don't mind navigating a bit of rugged coastline.

He gave them names: Stages 3 and 4, or deep sleep, when electrical waves roll as slow as mid-ocean swells; Stage 2, an intermediate stage between REM and deep sleep; and Stage 1, light sleep.

The wide connection existing among southern ocean basins permits extratropical south Indian Ocean swells originating from extratropical systems from adjacent extratropical areas to freely penetrate adjacent ocean basins.

It is possible to calculate the flexural (bending) response of a tabular iceberg to long Southern Ocean swells, and it has been found that a serious storm is capable of breaking down most bergs larger than 1 km into fragments.

We then proceed to investigate the dependence of western wave climate on Indian Ocean swells and the eastern wave climate on the trade winds in an attempt to characterize eastern and western wave regimes.