Over 40,000 tons of toxic oil spilled into one of the world's most productive, pristine, cold-water, coastal ecosystems.
As you might expect, the light, while pristine, is cold.
I swam in a pristine and cold Canadian lake near beaver dams, and stood quietly in the mist along with my memories of that time at the site of the Woodstock Festival of 1969.
It's not even a nice deep freeze where, like, you get the blanket of snow and everything is just pristine but cold as fuck or a complete whiteout which has its own charm it's more like if Mother Nature was on an all-liquid diet for a little while and took a big, nasty slushy shit on Canada's biggest city while also busting ass like a jet engine.
Eels do not require the cold, pristine streams that salmon do, and can surprisingly be found in landlocked ponds and lakes, in all five boroughs.
Another headliner was the poached lobster cocktail: a whole, cold, pristine beauty, split, cracked and escorted by a zingy cocktail sauce.
"Our urchin diver is a Scotsman who came to Norway for the love of a woman, and stayed for the cold, pristine waters of his new region of Steigen.
The mountains and their implication of mountain-building activity runs counter to the expectation that Kuiper belt objects are cold, pristine relics.
To the amusement of onlookers, Ms Whitman chose to protect herself against the cold with a pristine, dark brown Burberry jacket – a garment at odds with the typical stock-car racing fan's wardrobe of oil-stained baseball cap, vest and a can of Budweiser.
But nothing was amiss with a plate of cold, luscious bluepoint oysters: big, pristine and properly briny.
