Sentence examples for aquatic disaster from inspiring English sources

In the twentieth century, the highest-impact aquatic disaster was the Mississippi River flood of 1927 (the subject of a lovely 1939 novella,"Old Man," by William Faulkner), but New Orleans also got a direct hit from Hurricane Betsy, in 1965, and had many near-misses.

Natural disasters are always lurking somewhere close to the front of the New Orleans mind — especially aquatic disasters, and most especially hurricanes.

Of course, that's not the only reason microplastics are a disaster for aquatic life.

And it created an environmental disaster, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, suffocating aquatic life -- salamanders, frogs, fish and big snapping turtles -- as it moved downstream.

For example, you can choose to depict an endangered whale pod, an ecological disaster, a local bay or an aquatic sport.

Still, the acclaim that greeted "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums" didn't carry over to "The Life Aquatic," which was a critical and a box-office disaster; "The Darjeeling Limited" received mixed reviews and did not attract large audiences in the United States.

The machine's creators say the fish's unique locomotion could help it respond to underwater disasters similar to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill where aquatic robots had difficultly properly swimming into position to mend the leaking well.

And Illinois is now dealing with the billionaire coal king Cline, who recently praised Massey Energy's Don Blankenship for his "moral" convictions in one of the bloodiest years of coal mining, and on the 10th anniversary of the Martin County coal sludge disaster; in Ohio, Murray Energy's coal slurry leaks continue to wipe out aquatic life.

The aquatic Defoe.

Concerns over aquatic life?

Larvae are essentially aquatic.