Typically, early open water training takes place in a local body of water such as a lake, a flooded quarry or a sheltered and shallow part of the sea.

The flooded quarry on Lamb Holm, used for the Churchill Barriers.

The quarry used to build the Churchill Barriers has now been flooded and converted into a fish farm.

A local attraction is The Nature Discovery Centre situated at Thatcham Lake, a flooded gravel quarry near to the Thatcham Reed Beds.

The views across the Stour Valley are breathtaking and Westbere lakes, created when a former quarry was flooded, now form an extensive wetland area with reed beds.

A flooded quarry at Waterlip was acquired as a test site in the 1960s but problems led to testing being transferred to a site at Vobster.

Henleaze Lake, a flooded former quarry on the northern edge of Henleaze near Southmead and Westbury on Trym, has been the home of Henleaze Swimming Club since 1919.

Since quarrying ended in 1970, the Dorothea Quarry has flooded and become a popular site for scuba diving ( even though there are no facilities provided, and diving is officially banned in the quarry ); in places the quarry is over 100 metres deep with a network of flooded tunnels, and the unregulated nature and depth of the site has encouraged some divers to overestimate their capabilities – in the decade 1994-2004 21 divers lost their lives in the quarry.

Nearby are the ruins of the ' Blue Lagoon ', a small slate quarry, now flooded by the sea having broken in.

He was also known to train in the River Tees, Smith ’ s Dock, a flooded quarry in Great Ayton and the boating lake in Albert Park.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

The Acropolis was unique in the world and if that imcomparable work flooded by moonlight wasn't enough for both natives and tourists, then they were quite simply barbarians and the hell with them.

The infield was well flooded but the expanded outfield was much too dark.

When the valley was flooded by the Haditha Dam at Haditha in 1984-85, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities cut it into sections, and removed it to the new ' Anah where it was re-erected at the end of the 1980s.

Settlers flooded into regions serviced by such canals, since access to markets was available.

The output work W here is the movement of the piston as it is used to turn a crank-arm, which was then typically used to turn a pulley so to lift water out of flooded salt mines.

Then codenamed " Stella ," the machine was also set to utilize cartridges ; after seeing the Channel F, Atari realized they needed to release it before the market was flooded with cartridge-based machines.

By late May, the rain became torrential, and the lake was flooded.

In March 2008, Emsworth was hit by a large storm which resulted in numerous trees being uprooted and, combined with a high tide, led to large parts of the town being flooded.

The lower part of the town was flooded.

Previously this was thought not to be possible in reality, but in 2001 the lake was flooded almost a meter above maximum level ( and some upstream lakes like Glafsfjorden 3 metres ).

A naval battle was held on a flooded basin at the Field of Mars.

In 1163 the chaotic situation in Egypt led to a refusal to pay tribute to Jerusalem, and requests were sent to Nur ad-Din for assistance ; in response, Amalric invaded, but was turned back when the Egyptians flooded the Nile at Bilbeis.

The result was that pro-and anti-slavery elements flooded into Kansas with the goal of voting slavery up or down, leading to a bloody civil war there.

During a train-ride through a flooded area where an entire tribe was said to have seen the dinosaur, the locomotive suddenly derailed and turned over.

The Murray has also flooded on occasion, the most significant of which was the 1956 flood which inundated many towns on the lower Murray and lasted for up to six months.

The connection to the Nile River was made not simply because this was then known as the great river of " Aethiopia " ( by which all lands south of the desert were called by Classical writers ), but because the Nile flooded every summer.

This area was connected to the mainland by a strip of land, but when ocean levels rose as the glaciers melted this land strip was flooded, forming the island.

In 2005 alone, Central Luzon was hit by both a drought, which sharply curtailed hydroelectric power, and by a typhoon that flooded practically all of low-lying Manila's streets.

In some markets, the used goods market is so flooded with used stereos and car stereos, for example, that pawnshops will only accept the higher-quality brand names.

In many old houses the former staircases used to unload goods are now flooded, rendering the former ground floor uninhabitable.

Downstream from the Araguaia confluence, in the state of Pará, the river used to have many cataracts and rapids, but they were flooded in the early 1980s by the artificial lake created by the Tucuruí dam, one of the world's largest.

To her stepdaughter, Mary, now Duchess of Burgundy, she gave immeasurable guidance and help: using her own experiences in the court of Edward IV, where she had largely avoided being used as a pawn and contributed to the arrangement of her own marriage, she wisely guided the Duchess in deciding her marriage ; against the wave of marriage offers that flooded to the two Duchesses in Ghent ( from the recently widowed Duke of Clarence, from the 7-year old Dauphin of France, Charles, from a brother of Edward IV's wife, Elizabeth Woodville ), she stood firm, and advised Mary to marry Maximilian of Habsburg, the 18-year old son of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, to whom Charles the Bold had betrothed Mary, and who was ambitious and active enough, in Margaret's opinion, to defend Mary's legacy.

The cave was used by tourists and as a show cave, but in 1968 the cave was flooded by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

In prehistoric times, Piraeus was a rocky island consisting of the steep hill of Munichia, modern-day Kastella, and was connected to the mainland by a low-lying stretch of land that was flooded with sea water most of the year, and used as a salt field whenever it dried up.

The township was significantly flooded as a result of the construction of the Kinzua Dam in the 1960s, and as such, it is much more sparsely populated than it used to be.

The conversion to DVD has led to the marketplace being flooded with used VHS films, which are available at pawnshops and second-hand stores, typically for a cheaper price than the equivalent film on a used DVD.

A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing rice and other semiaquatic crops.

Vented cell ( wet cell, flooded cell ) NiCd batteries are used when large capacities and high discharge rates are required.

Larger flooded cells are used for aircraft starting batteries, electric vehicles, and standby power.

The center of campus is an open field called " the Bald Spot ," which is used for ultimate frisbee in the warmer months and flooded for skating and broomball in the winter.

ESP's commonly used on board naval vessels cannot be used to dewater contaminated flooded spaces.

The US and UN forces used Japan as their forward logistics base during the Korean War ( 1950-53 ), and orders for supplies flooded Japan.

The repeatedly flooded shorelines and the alpine pastures were used for grazing.

Its current state has occurred because the Medina used to be a tributary of the river Solent and have a much larger catchment area, as the Solent valley flooded and the island eroded the river received less water flow and more sediment, causing it to become more tidal.

Practice courses often consist of old holes of a previous design that are kept and maintained for practice purposes or as substitute holes if one or more holes become unplayable ; a 21-hole golf course, for instance, will have three additional holes that can be used for practice or as substitutes for a flooded or otherwise damaged hole.

Of North American species, Odontotaenius disjunctus ( synonym: Popilius disjunctus ) is the familiar bessbug found throughout the eastern US and Canada, while O. floridanus has only been found in Florida on sand hills that used to be islands when Florida was flooded thousands of years ago.

In the 1946 – 47 season, the ground was used temporarily by Nottingham Forest after the River Trent flooded both Meadow Lane and the City Ground.