offshore current

But the closer they got, the stronger the offshore current became, dragging the boat away from the elusive light.

Spock had only one plan, and that was to get beyond the breakers where the offshore current wasn't so fierce.

The tide was turning, ebbing away from the invisible coast, bringing with it a powerful offshore current.

He said that the site for the plant had been chosen "in part because the offshore currents are the strongest in all of France."

They struck out from the shore, angling slightly south to counter the south-to-north offshore current.

This is primarily due to cold offshore currents near Walvis Bay.

Aridity, heavy precipitation, and much foggy weather are in some areas consequences of offshore currents.

They were lined up along the wharf before the Beysib ship cleared the offshore current.

The cold offshore current prevents hurricanes.

There are rips (powerful offshore currents), blue bottles (stinging jellyfish) and other dangers.

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These deserts are caused by a combination of the cold offshore current, which limits evaporation, and the rain shadow of the mountains.

An ideal location for fog fences is high arid areas near cold offshore currents, where fog is common.

Off the coast of eastern North America, especially in winter, there is a sharp temperature gradient between the snow-covered land and the warm offshore currents.

Chappaquiddick Island's eastern edge is a barrier beach formed thousands of years ago by offshore currents that deposited tons of sand.

Mean daily maximum temperatures range from 32 to 41 C (90 to 106 F), except at high elevations, where the effects of a cold offshore current can be felt.

Allied navies were equipped for hydrographic surveys by submarines and other ships measuring offshore currents and scouting the channels to a landfall.

On the south coast, vessels were often driven ashore at Porth Neigwl by a combination of south westerly gales and treacherous offshore currents.

Havana, like much of Cuba, enjoys a tropical climate that is tempered by the island's position in the belt of the trade winds and by the warm offshore currents.

In a recent paper in Science, he argued that after they develop swimming ability, some larvae can adjust their depth, avoiding strong offshore currents and drifting in deeper water headed toward shore.

The isolated location and dangerous offshore currents of the Château d'If made it an ideal escape-proof prison, very much like the island of Alcatraz in California was in more modern times.

It is made up of sand that has been accumulating for approximately 750,000 years on volcanic bedrock that provides a natural catchment for the sediment which is carried on a strong offshore current northwards along the coast.

This cool offshore current, coupled with a very flat coastal plain, contributes to the near-desert-like conditions along the coastal region as evidenced by the brown landscape around the lake and the highly reflective salt beds within the lake.

They passed great patches of weed, kinds that Nita didn't know the names of-until they started coming to her as if she had always known them: red-bladder, kelp, agar, their long dark leaves or flat ribbons rippling as silkily in the offshore current as wheat in a landborn wind.