Coral formation in the ocean

Usage examples of reef.

The water boiled around Abo as the shark thrashed, but Abo stayed on and, holding the stick like handlebars, he pulled back to keep the shark from diving and steered him into the shallow water of the reef, where the other men waited with their knives drawn.

The first three waves of Marines had gone in with amtracs, whose tractor wheels just ground their way up and over the coral reef.

The Spaniards approached the island just before dawn, but through the ignorance of the pilot the whole armadilla was cast upon some reefs near the shore.

Now, as he sat off Gruelegra and watched the aviso clear the reef and shape a return course to the south-east, he was in no doubt.

But tell me about this Bight, Jack: are there sirens along its shores, or terrible reefs?

Their calcareous deposits become rocks, reefs, and large and small islands.

I heard the keel grating against the rough calcareous bottom of the coral reef.

However, the tides were set fair for an early start in the morning and Chubby ran us through the channel with hardly sufficient light to recognize the coral snags, and when we took up our station in the back of the reef the sun was only just showing its blazing upper rim above the horizon.

Chubby cut the motors and we coasted in under the lee of the reef, while Chubby scrambled back to where I crouched on the thwart.

Half a mile out, where is the reef, the white-headed combers thrust suddenly skyward out of the placid turquoise-blue and come rolling in to shore.

Dredging the sand-bar and cutting a passage in the soft coralline reef will give excellent shelter and, some say, a depth of seventeen fathoms.

The decapod did not return to the cave, and JJ was unable to locate any of the creatures at the reef or any of the nearby islands.

I remember one day in a reefing job, the downhaul parted and came do on deck from the peak of the spanker.

When the weather moderated, and we shook the reefs out, the downhaul was forgotten until we happened to think we might soon need it again.

And, boy, did they know from tack downhaul, kicking strap, mainsheet, clew outhaul, topping lift, boom, tack, reefing points, leech, spreader, foresail hanks, shrouds, inner forestay, stanchion, toe rail, and fin keel!