Such as Catriona Nicholson, Barra's only surfer, which, she told Davey, gives her a deep respect for the sea: "Fighting the ocean reminds you how small you are compared to nature; it gets your adrenaline going".
(In fact, another way to look at this commercial is to consider the dad thinking to himself: I used to fantasize about talking to my car in order to fly through the air, dive in the sea, fight off danger and save the world, and now that I'm actually doing it, it's only to find a damn restaurant).
July 27: Eddie from Ohio, Great Big Sea, Fighting Gravity.
We are drawn into sea fights, gruelling Arctic journeys, domestic tangles, his agonising stint as Governor of Van Dieman's Land.
KERYGMA GALLERY "Sea Fights, Storms and Shipwrecks," history paintings of the British Navy in the 18th and 19th centuries by David Fertig.
His conspicuous valour in the victorious sea fight with the Persians at Salamis (480) led soon to his election as strategus one of Athens' 10 annual war ministers and generals and he was apparently reelected every year until his ostracism in 461.
Khayr al-Dīn, known in the West as Barbarossa, became kapudan (admiral) of the Ottoman fleet and won a sea fight off Preveza, Greece (1538), against the combined fleets of Venice and Spain, which gave to the Ottomans the naval initiative in the Mediterranean until the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
They need not await the event they refer to, in order to gain a truth value ("The Sea Fight Tomorrow" 1966, pp 262 288).
The islands' names testify to the overactive imaginations of sailors who've spent too long at sea – Fighting Cock Island, Finger Island, Virgin Grotto (which is said to contain a rock the shape of a beautiful woman).
The battle was the first of five costly, large scale sea and air-sea actions fought in support of the ground battles on Guadalcanal itself, as the Japanese sought to counter the American offensive in the Pacific.
Galley warfare, sea warfare fought between forces equipped with specialized oar-driven warships, particularly in the Mediterranean Sea, where it originated in antiquity and continued into the age of gunpowder.
