- by jetties.
During these falling and
ebbing tides, a
riptide can
carry a
person far offs****. For example, the
ebbing tide at Shinne****
Inlet in Southampton...
-
which had run aground. However, the
action was
halted by
darkness and
falling tide, so
Virginia retired to take care of her few wounded—which
included her...
-
Tides are the rise and
fall of sea
levels caused by the
combined effects of the
gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much
lesser extent...
-
Slack tide or
slack water is the
short period in a body of
tidal water when the
water is
completely unstressed, and
there is no
movement either way in...
-
unsuited to
tidewater ports because it
could not
adjust for
rising and
falling tides,
although one was used in New York City. The
Hulett was
invented by...
- A
tide mill is a
water mill
driven by
tidal rise and
fall. A dam with a
sluice is
created across a
suitable tidal inlet, or a
section of
river estuary...
-
sluice gates that open on the
falling tide to
drain freshwater from the
agricultural marshlands and
close on the
rising tide to
prevent seawater from entering...
- all
parts of the firth. They
usually bask on the
rocks on the ebb (
falling)
tide since it
saves them
having to move as the
water rises. Some are often...
- 10–30 cm (3.9–11.8 in)
above the strandline, but
emerges at
night on the
falling tide to feed. They are
capable of
navigating where the sea is
using multiple...
- as far as
possible by the tugs and anc****d, so as to
settle on the
falling tide,
their troops unloading some
hours later than
those on the
powered barges...
