(1) I think, and many other scientists think, it could be quite an important meeting point for seals coming from mainland Europe because it’s one of most eastern sandbanks of its type.
(2) Accommodation also available from £45 per person, based on four sharing Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset If you can be tempted to leave the spotless sands of Dorset's swankiest peninsula, there's plenty to do in the water.
(3) MH370 search: 'rogue pilot' theory still on Australian investigators' radar Read more The US television network NBC said the debris was found on a sandbank in the Mozambique Channel, between the African mainland and Madagascar.
(4) It is one of the most beautiful beaches in Brazil, and backed by Atlantic rainforest, with dunes, sandbanks, a lake and rocky coastline.
(5) A giant pump is working day and night, reclaiming land from the sandbanks and river beds, expanding the city in defiance of nature.
(6) If successful, it could see rich countries promise not only to cut their emissions but to stump up cash for poor nations to pay for the changes they'll need to protect their towns and villages from those effects of climate change already under way and too late to reverse (think houses on stilts on easily flooded sandbanks in Bangladesh).
(7) Malaysia’s transport minister, Liow Tiong Lai, has warned against “undue speculation” about the earlier find, a metre-long piece of metal discovered on the Paluma sandbank in the channel between the African mainland and Madagascar last weekend, but said there was a “high possibility” it came from a Boeing 777.
(8) The aerial survey enabled researchers to count seals on the outer sandbanks of the estuary where colonies of up to 120 seals were recorded in remote and undisturbed spots away from people and boats.
(9) The survey was timed to coincide with the annual seal moult, when harbour seals shuffle onto sandbanks to shed their coats and grow a new layer in time for the winter, making them easier to spot.
(10) The sandbank was several miles from Hest Bank, where the group were reported missing.
(11) Beans (adults £10, kids £5), a family business, has been running trips to the sandbanks at the far end of the harbour for more than 50 years.
(12) Steve Barratt, chairman of the Mudeford Sandbank Beach Hut Association, said: "Back in the 1980s, the beach huts would have sold for around £6,000 to £7,000.
(13) ZSL’s spotters take advantage of the seals’ moulting season in August, when they shuffle up sandbanks to shed their coat and grow a new one, making double-counting less likely.
(14) We wouldn’t want to see dredging in the pupping [breeding] times.” A petition has attracted nearly 10,000 signatures and last month actor Mark Rylance backed a campaign against the dredging of the sandbanks , which have been proposed for designation as a marine conservation zone .
(15) The portfolio includes more than 1,300 UK residential properties and assets such as a Sunningdale home famous for once entertaining the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and a £2m house located in Sandbanks, Dorset.
(16) The actor Mark Rylance has lent his support to a campaign to stop the dredging of a stretch of sandbanks off the Kent coast.
(17) Close to Ramsgate, these common seals are unfazed by daytrippers cruising by on boats, while those out at more remote sandbanks would take flight if humans approached.
(18) I would urge people for their safety to refrain from entering the sea.” Further west, the weather halted efforts to move the huge car carrier Hoegh Osaka – which was beached on a sandbank near Southampton last week with 1,500 cars on board – away from the busy shipping lane.
(19) Though Culatra's only a mile or so offshore, we sail the long way over to avoid sandbanks and shrimp nets.
(20) Several are under investigation or awaiting pickup by authorities, but one – a horizontal stabiliser, stencilled with the words “NO STEP” , which Gibson found on a sandbank in Mozambique in late February – is almost certainly from MH370.
Shoal
Definition:
(n.) A great multitude assembled; a crowd; a throng; -- said especially of fish; as, a shoal of bass.
(v. i.) To assemble in a multitude; to throng; as, the fishes shoaled about the place.
(a.) Having little depth; shallow; as, shoal water.
(n.) A place where the water of a sea, lake, river, pond, etc., is shallow; a shallow.
(n.) A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal.
(v. i.) To become shallow; as, the color of the water shows where it shoals.
(v. t.) To cause to become more shallow; to come to a more shallow part of; as, a ship shoals her water by advancing into that which is less deep.
Example Sentences:
(1) China and the Philippines had a tense maritime standoff at a shoal west of the main Philippine island of Luzon early this year.
(2) Among their choicest memories from last year, they tell me, are watching shoals of goldfish swim down their street, and coming home to find Derrick's model boat collection bobbing on the deluge.
(3) Philippine fishing vessels are back in the waters of Scarborough Shoal.
(4) Christian Rynning-Tønnesen, chief executive of Statkraft, the Norwegian power utility that has invested in Sheringham Shoal, said the UK's wind resources and regulatory regime made it the most attractive location in Europe for offshore wind investors.
(5) As additional criteria the shoaling behaviour of the fishes is quantified and evaluated by the system.
(6) The MCS said the best choice now is Cornish mackerel caught by "hand-line", with British, European or Norwegian mackerel that is "pelagic-caught" – caught in shoals – as the best alternative.
(7) The people of Great Britain, with the co-ordination of a shoal of mullet, didn’t just put the Lewisham and Greenwich choir in with a bullet, they made sure to buy enough of Bieber’s own work that his generous spirit would be rewarded with chart spots two, three and five.
(8) But now, of course, everyone's doing it – and if you can really contemplate spending an entire evening out of your painfully short life watching Ocean Colour Scene plod through Moseley Shoals then, honestly, get some help.
(9) Last week, a shoal of headlines further indicated that for our young (and the United Nations defines "young" as under 25), the report card continues to read: "Could do very much better."
(10) Manila regards Second Thomas Shoal, which lies 105 nautical miles (195 km) southwest of the Philippine region of Palawan, as being within its 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone.
(11) Isolated individuals detached from the shoals become immobile from the moment in which they separate from the bacterial group they belonged to ("immunobilization reaction").
(12) Davey attended the opening of the UK's latest offshore windfarm off the north Norfolk coast on Thursday, a £1.2bn projected called Sheringham Shoal .
(13) It was like a horror movie … he kept trying to talk,” Shoals said.
(14) He was widely regarded as having the right experience, deft touch and nous to navigate the shoals and shifting currents of continental politics that would buffet the British ship of state as it left its European berth.
(15) The highly automated system allows to quantify and assess changes in the behaviour patterns of a small shoal of test fishes.
(16) He saw a shoal of porpoises and a stormy petrel skimming over the waves and read "Humboldt's glowing accounts of tropical scenery.
(17) His team has seen humpbacks “lunge feeding”, where the whales rise up under giant shoals and take hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish into their mouths in one gulp, filtering out the seawater through their baleen grills and swallowing the fish.
(18) The film was shot near coral reefs that fringe the tiny Pescador Island where huge shoals of sardines draw sharks to the area.
(19) The Philippine navy is quietly reinforcing the hull and deck of a rusting ship it ran aground on a disputed South China Sea reef in 1999 to stop it breaking apart, determined to hold the shoal as Beijing creates a string of man-made islands nearby.
(20) If there are more bilateral negotiations between China and other claimants then a Trump administration, heavily occupied with North Korea and Isis, won’t be elevating disputes over shoals and reefs in south-east Asia.