The phrase "ocean passage" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a journey by boat across an ocean. For example, "The crew members were excited to begin their long ocean passage from New York to London."
The gunner had fired through the rigging and hit one of the hopeful new colonists — "an honest man," Winthrop said, who had survived the ocean passage only to be shot dead upon arrival.
Ice islands produced by Ellesmere Island calve into the Beaufort Gyre (the clockwise-rotating current system in the Arctic Ocean) and may make several circuits of the Canada Basin before exiting the Arctic Ocean via Fram Strait (an ocean passage between Svalbard and Greenland).
The first sighting of an ocean passage to the Pacific south of Tierra del Fuego is sometimes attributed to Francisco de Hoces of the Loaisa Expedition.
Our 30-day ocean passage has always stayed with me, and now my 35-day cross-country passage nestles beside that sister experience in the same corner of my memories, an ongoing inspiration.
During his long ocean passage to Australia in 1852, Eugene von Guérard reported that conditions were far from ideal, and "meals were late and bad" (1 ).
A people that had braved ocean passages in crowded sailing ships must have been disproportionately endowed with the optimism gene.
"They don't normally make these ocean passages," Richard Hurley, a senior maritime data specialist at IHS Fairplay, said in a phone interview from the group's London offices.
"I hope that this report will serve as a reminder to all yacht operators, skippers and crews of the particular dangers associated with conducting ocean passages, and the need for comprehensive planning and preparation before undertaking such ventures.
They were mistaken again when they sailed up it, calculating that in addition to its riches of silver, the river would bring them geographical riches too: the sea passage between two oceans, the shortcut for commerce that was finally discovered some years later by exploring the ends of the earth, or many years later by chopping Panama in two.
For intermediate emigration survival values, we predict an increase in the number of fish maturing (as YOY or older fish) relative to the high emigrant survival case, and thus we predict a mix of anadromous and resident fish with increasing representation of residents as survival in the ocean (and/or passage down the river to the ocean) declines.
This facilitated a current of freezing water to circulate westward around the southern ocean, blocking the passage of warm equatorial waters to the Antarctic and sentencing the South Pole to an ice cap and Australia to desert.
