Sentence examples for marine specimens from inspiring English sources

About 250 marine specimens too big to move or generally undesirable were released at sea from the chartered towboat Sheila Moran, midway between Sandy Hook and Long Beach.

The six of them spent six weeks in 1940 collecting marine specimens, living and working in the close quarters of the Western Flyer's cabin and deck.

What it shows is considerable: nearly 700 of the museum's 80 million marine specimens; a 24-foot-long squid found 1,300 feet below the ocean's surface off the Spanish coast; extraordinary images of creatures that astonish landlocked imaginations.

From 1871 to 1887, while he was in charge of scientific explorations by the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Verrill found and described hundreds of new marine specimens.

And in the 1950s Georges Vantongerloo's mystical twists of transparent tubing, suspended in a vitrine like marine specimens, are beautifully matched by Sophie Taeuber-Arp's color pencil drawings, like scatterings of tossed-down thread.

Each Phantom had a video camera in its nose, two small headlights, contact sensors, color sonar, and other accoutrements, and Graham explained that they could also be equipped with a variety of tools, including a cable cutter, and a suction device (or slurp gun) to bring back marine specimens.

The newspaper went on to say that "although it is unlikely that the unusual marine specimen found its own way out of the Caspian,... the fish sometimes get carried to far-off places on the backs of sharks.

Outwardly, it has hardly changed since 1940 when John Steinbeck visited as part of a marine specimen collecting expedition led by his friend Ed Ricketts (whom Steinbeck immortalized as his lead character in "Cannery Row").

Hannibal (video) said the relationship between people and place was especially apparent on Steinbeck's six-week marine specimen-collecting expedition to the Gulf of California, which he chronicled in The Sea of Cortez.

It details a six-week (March 11 April 2020) marine specimen-collecting boat expedition he made in 1940 at various sites in the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez), with his friend, the marine biologist Ed Ricketts.

As he waits for them to button his shirt, or murmurs to his marine biology specimens in his private laboratory, he resembles a royal figure rather closer to home: well-meaning, babied by his wife and utterly disengaged from reality.