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I believe its call the the tide line where two currents (could be a river too so I refrained from saying ocean currents) come together.
 
thør said:
It's glacial water to the left and blue water to the right.
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I see a similar phenomenon in the sea opposite my house during heavy rain. The water from the road drains empty into the sea from a culvert that is covered at high tide.

If the rain comes after a longish dry spell, it washes out the sediment and dust that has accumulated on the roads and roadside gullies.

A thick brown streak runs out from the culvert, turning with the tide. Its width and extent varies with the state of the sea and height of the tide. It is most marked at High Water slack with a calm sea. If the sea is rough, the brown streak is barely visible. A Low Water it deposits the sediment in an alluvial fan on the beach that is dispersed by the next high tide.

If there hasn't been a dry spell then there is little sediment to cause the effect. Fresh relatively clean water will show a slight division as it enters the sea but it is difficult to see.
 
oggbashan said:
I see a similar phenomenon in the sea opposite my house during heavy rain. The water from the road drains empty into the sea from a culvert that is covered at high tide.

If the rain comes after a longish dry spell, it washes out the sediment and dust that has accumulated on the roads and roadside gullies.

A thick brown streak runs out from the culvert, turning with the tide. Its width and extent varies with the state of the sea and height of the tide. It is most marked at High Water slack with a calm sea. If the sea is rough, the brown streak is barely visible. A Low Water it deposits the sediment in an alluvial fan on the beach that is dispersed by the next high tide.

If there hasn't been a dry spell then there is little sediment to cause the effect. Fresh relatively clean water will show a slight division as it enters the sea but it is difficult to see.
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I would like to live opposite the sea. How nice you have that view.
 
thør said:
Moved up to a view of the ocean about 15 years ago. But, I've always lived around here except when away to college.
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Wow. I looked it up (not in a stalky way honestly) and it looks like an amazing place to live.

Can I come and visit you please? or is that a tad forward :)
 
planetqueen said:
Wow. I looked it up (not in a stalky way honestly) and it looks like an amazing place to live.

Can I come and visit you please? or is that a tad forward :)
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Pack your bag. It's one of the best times of the year for a visit. Bring a jacket and a raincoat.
 
thør said:
Pack your bag. It's one of the best times of the year for a visit. Bring a jacket and a raincoat.
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You are too kind :)

I am a good houseguest mind you. I love to cook and look after people. Now where did I put my raincoat.
 
Sunset opposite my house:

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planetqueen said:
You are too kind :)

I am a good houseguest mind you. I love to cook and look after people. Now where did I put my raincoat.
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You might want to inquire further into the protocols.

When I asked a lady to wear a raincoat, it means there is nothing on underneath it.

Maybe that's just me...
 
SkAoUt said:
USS Oklahoma parbuckled upright after Pearl Harbour.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/NASPH_%5E118506-_19_March_1943._USS_Oklahoma-_Salvage._Aerial_viwe_toward_shore_with_ship_in_90_degree_position._-_NARA_-_296975.jpg/754px-NASPH_%5E118506-_19_March_1943._USS_Oklahoma-_Salvage._Aerial_viwe_toward_shore_with_ship_in_90_degree_position._-_NARA_-_296975.jpg
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...and so it begins:



GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy (AP) — Using a vast system of steel cables and pulleys, maritime engineers on Monday gingerly winched the massive hull of the Costa Concordia off the Italian reef the cruise ship had struck in January 2012.

But progress in pulling the heavily listing luxury liner to an upright position was going much slower than expected. Delays meant the delicate operation — originally scheduled from dawn to dusk Monday — was not expected to be completed before Tuesday morning.

"Things are going like they should, but on a timetable that is dragging out," Franco Gabrielli, head of Italy's Civil Protection Agency, said Monday evening.

Never before has such an enormous cruise ship been righted. Salvage workers struggled to overcome obstacle after obstacle as they slowly inched toward their goal of raising the crippled ship 65 degrees to the upright position.

An early morning storm delayed the salvage command barge from getting into place for several hours. Later, some of the cables dragging the ship's hull upright went slack, forcing engineers to climb the hull to fix them.

The Concordia itself didn't budge for the first three hours after the operation began, engineer Sergio Girotto told reporters.

The initial operation to lift the ship moved it just 3 degrees toward vertical. After 10 hours, the crippled ship had edged upward by just under 13 degrees, a fraction of what had been expected.

Still, the top engineers were staying positive.

"Even if it's 15 to 18 hours, we're OK with that. We are happy with the way things are going," Girotto said.

After some 6,000 tons of force were applied — using a complex system of pulleys and counterweights — Girotto said "we saw the detachment" of the ship's hull from the reef thanks to undersea cameras.

At the waterline, a few feet of slime-covered ship that had been underwater slowly became visible...
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USS Oklahoma was under 28,000 tons.

The Costa Concordia is about 4 times that.
 
oggbashan said:
USS Oklahoma was under 28,000 tons.

The Costa Concordia is about 4 times that.
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Too right. This project rather unique. Its interesting to see things never done before. I'd imagine its the scale/magnitude that is sorta spellbinding as there are awesome things done on the microscopic scale that don't rate this type of interest. The tangible vs. the unseen maybe?

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Awesome to see it finally upright. All those involved in the salvage ought to be extremely proud of what they've accomplished!
 
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Traditionalists hate it but the speed is mind-boggling. The Kiwis are way ahead and need win but two more races to take the America's Cup to New Zealand.

Forty-seven (47) knots in a sailboat?



 
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