What is "deep-water"

Usage examples of "deep-water".

Injuns and cottonmouths and giant gators, and anyways, there was nowhere to run to, nothing but mangrove and deep-water rivers, miles from anywhere.

We have the Baekje en route to Yokohama to pick up a leased submersible that will be required for the deep-water recovery operation.

Even the entire contents of the Sea-witch's tank would not have filled a quarter of the supertanker's carrying capacity, and the possibility of a supertanker running at a loss, however small, would have been the source of waking nightmares for the North Hudson: equally importantly, the more isolated ports which Lord Worth favored for the delivery of his oil were unable to offer deep-water berthside facilities for anything in excess of fifty thousand tons.

The frayas maintain their deep-water form as long as there is chalot around for them to feed on.

Long used to reading the subtlest cues to hidden emotion, he glanced sideways at her, remembering what she had once said about the crimps that operated in any deep-water port.

Modern deep-water exploration begins with Charles William Beebe and Otis Barton in 1930.

The steel-faced docks on opposite sides of the river channel backed by landfill provided twelve thousand feet of deep-water berthage for all ships except heavily laden super-tankers.

The steel-faced docks on opposite sides of the river channel backed by landfill provided twelve thousand feet of deep-water berthage for all ships except heavily laden supertankers.

The city of Refuge boasted Marfang Island's only true deep-water harbor, and for all its inhabitants' small size, that made it the home port of the finest seamen in all Orfressa.

The morning breeze feathered the deep-water anchorage, still half in shadow beneath the towering cliffs, the' conveyor-belt thudded quietly on its rollers, the crane's engine chuffed rhythmically.

Measuring off twelve and a half miles from the point where the deep-water channel wound its way through the reef, he pointed to a sheltered anchorage approximately eighteen miles north of San Juan del Norte.

But they were inconstantly situated and, often, between them lay passages of deep-water sink holes and well-camouflaged meadows of what appeared to be solid ground but were, instead, quicksand that could draw a man under within seconds.

He was angry with Stacy, certain now the British deep-water survey was a combined intelligence operation to spy on Soggy Acres.

Even if we could supply them with high-tech dive gear and a helium-oxygen gas mixture for deep-water breathing, their chances are nil.

Nicholas had been open about his lack of knowledge in running a ship, but he was an apt student, and between his lifetime of small-boat experience, the time he had worked on the Raptor, and what he could learn from first Pickens and now Amos, he was turning into a first-rate deep-water sailor.