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tide and rises
By staying on the island while it is cut off by the tide tourists can experience the island in a much quieter state, as most day trippers leave before the tide rises.
Pliny reports that " Pytheas of Massalia informs us, that in Britain the tide rises 80 cubits.
* Sea level rises over several hours, covering the intertidal zone ; flood tide.
* The water rises to its highest level, reaching high tide.
Fisherman's Rock in the north end of the Narrows Basin rises to within a few metres of low tide, and is marked by waves breaking in rough weather.
As the tide reaches its peak, the lagoon water has a much smaller amount of barrier to permeate through so the lagoon level rises.
From bowls as big as baths, there rises and drifts like a miasmic tide the all but palpable odor of the day's bellytimber.
Consequently, during the day as the tide rises and falls in the Puget Sound, so do parts of land slightly rise and fall.
They usually bask on the rocks on the ebb ( falling ) tide since it saves them having to move as the water rises.
* In a 2004 Disney direct to DVD film called Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, Mickey is locked away in Mont Saint-Michel and left to drown when the tide rises.
When the sea level rises and the tide begins to come in, the temporary increase in tidal power is channeled into a large basin behind the dam, holding a large amount of potential energy.
A rising tide approaches from the south-west, causing the water in the strait to flow north-eastwards as the level rises.
Once a month when there is a Full Moon and the tide is high, seawater rises from its normal levels, and pours into the Historic Center District through special openings in the seawalls that separate the city from the harbor.
When there is rain in the mountains surrounding the Harbour, the tide rises, and it falls when the atmospheric pressure reverses and results in less rain.
At Aldabra in the Indian Ocean, blacktip reef sharks congregate in the channels between reef flats during low tide and travel to the mangroves when the water rises.
Their average swimming speed decreases when the tide rises at night, possibly because the influx of cooler water reduces their metabolism, or the accompanying movement of prey fishes makes foraging easier.
This makes Sully Island a potentially dangerous place, and many people have been swept to their deaths while trying to leave the island as the tide rises very rapidly.
The surrounding ocean rises about one metre at spring tide.
As the tide rises again there is a period of slack water when the levels are the same on either side.
However due to the narrow entrance to the Loch, the tide rises more quickly than the water can flow into the Loch.
At low tide, the top of the island rises to 4 m ( 13 ft .) above sea level, and is sometimes almost awash at high tide.
Walking across a tidal sandbar at low tide looks tempting but is very hazardous — unpredictable tide rises have resulted in several drownings.

tide and round
An overtime goal by Gary Dornhoefer in Game 5 turned the tide of their first round series with the Minnesota North Stars in the Flyers ' favor, as the Flyers got their first playoff series win in six games.
A marathon-length round trip north of the rookery along the beach to Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara is possible, though passable only during low tide.
Finally, in the tenth round, Frazier began to slow down and tire, and Ali slowly turned the tide.
This can be crossed at very low tide, but most walkers follow the lanes round the head of the creek to reach Dennis Head at the mouth of the Helford River.
Mitchells Bay is a great right hand point break that performs well at mid tide, waves can be found at ' Petrol Pumps ' ( named after a now closed small Caltex auto garage located there ), the bay before and occasionally further round when the tides are right.
It would provide a short-cut from the Lee Navigation at Bromley-by-Bow to the River Thames at Limehouse Basin, avoiding the tortuous curves of the lower reaches of the River Lea at Bow Creek, and the need to wait for the tide to make the long detour round the Isle of Dogs.
The tide quickly turned, however, and Zeng succeeded in clearing the country round the Poyang lake, and subsequently in ridding the province of Jiangsu of the enemy.
The Creek was filled up, and had a road across it for 40 years until 1823, when the Lord Mayor ordered it to be again reopened, so as to give about eight feet navigation for barges at spring tide ; thus saving a distance of fourteen miles ( 21 km ) into the Medway, and avoiding the danger of going round by the Nore.

tide and car
Access to the island is on foot at low tide from the car park of the Captain's Wife public house.
There is foot access at low tide from the pub car park to Sully Island but tides are high and fast-and therefore dangerous.
" Some moulds have escaped burial by the boat ramp and car park built on top of the lava, and can be viewed at low tide.
South of this is a beachside car park overlooking Seaton Carew Wreck, the protected remains of a wooden collier vessel on the beach below the tide line.
At high tide the sea comes right into the old village, flooding the lower road and several car parking spaces.
At high tide, the water is deep enough to cover a car.
However, the tide turns as Kaga is offered a chance to drive the mysterious racing car ,' Ogre AN-21 ', privately presented by Kyoshiro Nagumo.
When the tide had gone out, a young couple, John and Mandy, stumbled upon the partially buried car, dug him out, and reactivated him.

tide and which
Fifteen years ago, troubled by the rising tide of materialism in the post-war world, a businessman and a minister asked themselves if there might not be a place for a small magazine in which men and women, regardless of creed or color, could set forth boldly their religious convictions and bear witness to the power of faith to solve the endless problems of living.
The ship will seek a location which is sufficiently protected ; has suitable holding ground, enough depth at low tide and enough room for the boat to swing.
Emergent coastlines are identifiable by the coastal landforms, which are above the high tide mark, such as raised beaches.
There are about 30 separate reefs and atolls, twelve being wholly submerged or drying only during low tide, and 18 others with a total of about 51 islets and cays ( 18 alone on the atoll Lihou Reef ), some of which are vegetated.
It also included “ information such as weather forecasts, farmers ' planting dates, astronomical information, and tide tables, Astronomical data and various statistics, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, lists of all types, timelines, and more .” Mather had within the text of the Almanac the positions and motions of these celestial bodies, which he must have calculated by hand.
There were several islands which were not completely submerged at high tide but most of them were submerged.
The village has a basin for small yachts and a few fishing boats opposite the millpond, an artificial lake which fills at high tide can be emptied through a sluice at low tide.
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.
After an initial loss of territory by the Jewish state and occupation of Arab Palestine by the Arab armies, from July the tide gradually turned in the Israelis favour and they pushed the Arab armies out and occupying some of the territory which had been allocated to the Palestinian Arabs.
The following table gives a list of the islands of the Firth of Clyde with an area greater than 40 hectares ( approximately 100 acres ) plus adjacent smaller uninhabited islets, tidal islets only separated at higher stages of the tide, and skerries which are only exposed at lower stages of the tide.
The pre-20th century names Danger Reef, Caldew Reef, Maria Shoal and Crane Shoal refer to this atoll, which by then was entirely submerged at high tide.
* The short story " There is a Tide " begins by speaking of a metaphorical tide of fate which guides one's destiny, but the existence of literal tides on a planet in the story is a key to the plot.
Little Penguins on Middle Island in Warrnambool, Victoria were subject to heavy predation by foxes, which could reach the island at low tide by a tidal sand bridge.
:" Hurricanes, cold stress, red tide poisoning and a variety of other maladies threaten manatees, but by far their greatest danger is from watercraft strikes, which account for about a quarter of Florida manatee deaths ," said study curator John Jett.
The influx of Chinese arms turned the tide in Burma against the ethnic insurgencies, many of which had relied indirectly on Chinese complicity.
The point at which the Sun's gravity concedes its influence to the galactic tide is called the tidal truncation radius.
Statistical models of the observed orbits of long-period comets argue that the galactic tide is the principal means by which their orbits are perturbed toward the inner Solar System.
They mine the ore, smelt it and then work it into pieces the shape of knuckle-bones, after which it is transported to the island of Ictis by wagon, which can be done at low tide.
Red tide is a common name for a phenomenon also known as an algal bloom ( large concentrations of aquatic microorganisms ), an event in which estuarine, marine, or fresh water algae accumulate rapidly in the water column and results in discoloration of the surface water.
Rungholt was situated on the island of Strand, which was rent asunder by another storm tide in 1634, and of which the islets of Pellworm, Nordstrand and Nordstrandischmoor are the only remaining fragments.

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