Sentence examples for patch of the ocean from inspiring English sources

That works because, as rain falls on a patch of the ocean, it freshens the surface water.

The lobstermen of Port Lincoln have managed to work out only a primitive system of property rights -- they each own a percentage of the traps used, not a patch of the ocean -- and they are dealing with just one relatively immobile species in coastal waters.

But in one patch of the ocean floor, a jet of hot water spurts upwards out of a rocky vent.

White sponges encrusted patches on the ocean floor.

Flying at night over a patch of the Indian Ocean where Uranus's shadow was to be cast, he had the foresight to turn on his equipment more than a half-hour early.

One day I am running by a placid patch of ocean; the next day the once-calm place is a thriving and wavy surf spot.

Ten aircraft are combing a huge patch of the southern Indian Ocean, about 2,500km (1,500 miles) south-west of the Australian city of Perth.

The team injected the tracer into a patch of ocean east of the Caribbean and then tracked the chemical with water samples over a period of months as it spread over 1 million square kilometers.

It is also four times as large — 198,200 square miles, compared with the 48,500-square-mile patch of ocean where the search had been focused, according to AMSA.

There's a garbage patch at the bottom of the ocean.

A dual tracer SF6/3He release enabled quantification of both the lateral evolution of a labelled volume (patch) of ocean and the air sea tracer exchange at tenths of kilometer scale, in conjunction with the iron fertilisation.