The experience of an ocean transit has some similarities to driving across the continental United States.
The industrial nations of Europe, Asia and North America are the primary beneficiaries of free ocean transit.
For instance, Argo Tours, in Panama City, (011-507) 228-4348, fax (011-507) 228-1234, www.big-ditch.com, a partner of Panama Jones, in Clarita, Okla., (888) 726-2621, www.panama canal.com, offers full-day, ocean-to-ocean transits once a month and half-day transits each Saturday.
After transiting the Philippine and Indonesian archipelagos and crossing the Indian Ocean, she rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived off the St.
As flagship of Battleship Division 7 (BatDiv 7), Iowa departed the United States on 2 January 1944 for the Pacific Ocean, transiting the Panama Canal on 7 January in advance of her combat debut in the campaign for the Marshall Islands.
A century after explorer Roald Amundsen transited the sea route connecting the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, officials and local communities are struggling to keep pace with the changes in the Arctic set in motion by the disappearing sea ice.
For a decade China has been busy in the Indian Ocean, a crucial transit zone for maritime trade between eastern Asia and the Middle East.
"They've got to support other types of transportation [like ocean and rail transit].
He had had a fascination with the Victorian naturalists and explorers since he was a kid, particularly Alfred Russel Wallace (whose collection of Amazonian specimens famously caught fire and sunk into the ocean while in transit back to Europe).
Several members showed up this week at the station after a 4-day transit of the Southern Ocean to prepare for the start of the penguins' breeding season later this month.
For example, the life-history of salmon balances the timing of numerous events during transit from headwaters to the ocean and back again.
