Jonathan Bennett lived in an old, unheated campervan for fourteen months, and travelled clockwise all round Britain, surfing every beach he could catch a wave.
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So we put the rudder over , gunned the engine and awaited whatever the sea
wished to do with us . The gallant Merry Ark shuddered and fought and finally
labored around . The first wave took her broadside ; she heeled over , shook
herself ...
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On October 28, 1724, Lima was destroyed, and on the evening of that day the
sea rose in a wave eighty feet over Callao. ... At Caldera, near to Copiapo, on
May 9, 1877, which was the time when Iquique was devastated, the first motion
which ...
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... is only eighty - three sea defense , Tecomar relies heavily on the feet back from
the bow , it is subject to evidence from other ships in the general more severe
buffeting by the waves as area of the TUXPAN during the February they come
over ...
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now lying in the trough of the waves , shook and rolled terribly ; the sea struck her
with fearful violence . At night the tempest increased in violence . John Bunsby
saw the approach of darkness and the rising of the storm with dark misgivings .
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Sponges from the Western Coast of North America . ... to the Monasonida and
were dredged at various depths down to about eighty fathoms or picked up on
the beach ; the former are ... on the shore , after storms , where they had been
thrown by the waves , with some species not growing in shallow water or near the
shore .
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On she He steereth fair against the wind ; came , rolling on the waves which He
leareth , if thou trust in Him , bore her to destruction . ... around broke away , and
they perished . the mouth of the Tees , and in the The other could be still seen ,
and bay of Hartlepool eighty - one ves ... Groups of anxious in - and line across
the wreck , this last habitants dotted the coast and mast disappeared with its
precious ...
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It was a favorable change , and the Tankadere again bounded forward on this
mountainous sea , though the waves crossed each other , and imparted shocks
and counter - shocks which would have crushed a craft less solidly built . From
time ...
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Epicenter between 37° and 39° S . Wave extended along approximately 900
miles of coast to the north and south of 37° S . Great loss of life among ...
Epicenter between 39° and 41° S . Wave intense in the inner part of the bay near
Valdivia ( Bahai Corral ) . ... Eighty - foot waves at Callao flooded the city and
sank 19 ships .
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More than once Mr . Fogg rushed to protect her from the violence of the waves .
Day reappeared . The tempest ... miles of their destination . The wind grew
decidedly calmer , and happily the sea 102 AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY
DAYS .
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The moonlight - scenes in and near New York are , I think , finer than in any other
locality , except perhaps on the ocean . ... Waves in deep water are always the
most difficult for me to paint ; the motions of those on the coast are much more ...
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Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Coast Guard of the Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh
Congress ... Shortly after the April 1 , 1946 , seismic sea wave , seismologists and
oceanographers in the Coast and Geodetic Survey ... The available
communication centers near some of our tide stations are manned only during
certain scheduled hours ...
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Coastal processes involving waves , wind , and tides erode , mobilise , shape
and help accumulate these sediments as ... of the Peron Peninsula in Shark Bay ,
the beach - dune tract at and near Onslow on the Pilbara Coast , and Eighty Mile
...
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Finally , perhaps 50 feet against a coastline across its as the bottom shoals
toward land , its contours and path . And since these waves carry thousands of
their orientation modify the waves which roll in miles from the point of origin , they
arrive ...
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height of the plain , namely , 120 feet , renders it improbable that an earthquake -
wave , vast as some have here been , could have broken over the surface at its
present leyel ; but when the land stood eightyfive feet lower , at the period when
the shells were ... a resident engineer , loose fragments ; this is probable , for I
found on the beach , and not near the remains of any building , masses of brick -
work ...
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We corne now to consider the unusual phenomena or changes which occur in
the State , or the cold waves : A careful study of the cold waves of the entire
country developed the fact that in the years 1881 to 1884 inclusive , there were
eighty - eight ... The first class follows the region of the great lakes , and across
New England , and are not felt south of the Ohio river . ... Dakota to Texas ,
thence frequently east over the Gulf States , and then northeasterly over the
Atlantic Coast States .
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... details — must be very imperfect indeed , without comprehending some parts
of the coast , and some of the sea - arms that stretch into the interior . ... idea of
the beauty and the grandeur that for ever kept unfolding themselves around our
summer voyagings in calm or storm . ... Ascend one of the heights of Appin , and
as the waves roll in light , you will feel how the mountains are beautified by the
sea .
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... details — must be very imperfect indeed , without comprehending some parts
of the coast , and some of the sea - arms that stretch into the interior . ... idea of
the beauty and the grandeur that for ever kept unfolding themselves around our
summer voyagings in calm or storm . ... Ascend one of the heights of Appin , and
as the waves roll in light , you will feel how the mountains are beautified by the
sea .
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... details — must be very imperfect indeed , without comprehending some parts
of the coast , and some of the sea - arms that stretch into the interior . ... idea of
the beauty and the grandeur that for ever kept unfolding themselves around our
summer voyagings in calm or storm . ... Ascend one of the heights of Appin , and
as the waves roll in light , you will feel how the mountains are beautified by the
sea .
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An iron tower on the Calf Rock , eighty - six Its top of pale and livid green , its
crest of awful white . ... They drogue , and Franklin improved upon their crude
idea . sea the wave velocity may be obtained by veering were nearly suffocated
by sulphurous ... the sea surface ) and great depth , even near the land , so that
perpetual poor fellow who happened to be sick in his bunk below . the mast head
of the ...
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