At each water sampling time we recorded environmental conditions, including air and water temperature, cloud cover, rainfall, wind speed and direction, wave height, number of people (on the beach and in the water), boats, animals (number and type, on the beach and in the water), tide stage, and debris.
I find it almost impossible to be still in the presence of water, tides and crustaceans.
We'll save the pandas and the whales that sing prettily, but, like godlings, we're playing with fire and water, tides and industry.
If Mars was close enough to look like the moon, experts say water tides would be affected and tracts of land would submerge.
This shallow-water reef zone, known as reef surface, is affected by the surge of water tides that further enhances the biodiversity.
To read the letters to Bottomley, and the letters to his other great friend Eleanor Farjeon, is to encounter a great salt-water tide of self-loathing and self-consciousness.
Yet at their best, the city's fish and shellfish are sublime -- small, delicately textured and incomparably sweet, especially those from the outer lagoon's shallow, brackish waters, which are rich in plankton, fish eggs and other foods, and regularly scrubbed by salt-water tides.
The extreme tides on the Bay of Fundy bring the fish in at high water; low tide leaves them stranded and waiting to be fished out.
When I finally reached the water, the tide had just begun to flood.
It usually began with standing water: a tide pool or pond or salty shallow, wet enough to breed bacteria but not so wet as to wash them away.
With Surfline powering the Oakley app, surfers now have access to spots all over the world with vital stats like air temp, water temp, tide charts, swell breakdown, wind, sunrise/sunset and a brief synopsis for each spot.
