Pregnant turtles, too petrified by the commotion to wade ashore at night, are being forced to lay their eggs in the sea, where they cannot hatch. |
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Many soldiers went ashore without their sleeping bags, since the plan was for the bags to follow in a day. |
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Her entire crew of sixteen men, after several hours in open boats on a boisterous sea, succeeded in getting ashore. |
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Last March, near the south coast of England town of Eastbourne, a body washed ashore. |
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When the 90th Division went ashore 2 days after D-Day, it was not ready for ferocious combat in the bocage. |
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Every few years, gray whales and blue whales wash ashore on the California coast. |
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It will provide a defensive umbrella for forces ashore in a contested theater and even on American shores themselves. |
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The crew moors the boat and everyone goes ashore to a restaurant set up under palm trees with rough tables and benches. |
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With each piece of bleached, dead coral washed ashore, the marine ecosystem comes that much closer to being a watery wasteland. |
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By 1960, only seven remained active as target tugs and radar calibration aircraft for the gunnery ranges ashore or the fleet guns. |
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Frank told everyone at dinner that he will try to put people ashore at 8 in the morning, unless the fish are biting. |
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Had one of our aircraft-carriers or troopships been sunk before the troops got ashore, British forces would have been in deep trouble. |
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Spectators lined the shore cheering as actors in 18th-century style uniforms and three-pointed tricorn hats rowed ashore. |
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History has come ashore, turning the real estate of the free into the soil of tribulation. |
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Here the pairs rub bills and coo to each other before mating and going ashore to lay the eggs. |
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He managed to get ashore after the Grosvenor was wrecked but did not survive the trek to safety. |
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Her final operational task involved trials in Norway, and the ship's company of 35 enjoyed their final foreign run ashore in Stavanger. |
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That allowed the embarked Marines and members of the ship's company to go ashore. |
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Quickly we hauled the canoe ashore and began to follow on foot, but the muck and mire made a chase on land impossible. |
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Miraculously, they floated ashore, were nursed by a she-wolf, and then reared by a shepherd. |
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Every boat from the East dumped crowds of Tothersiders ashore at Fremantle. |
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The Northern Gannet is a large pelagic bird that only comes ashore to breed. |
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Half the barges were away, already sweeping downriver with thin, white mustaches under their bluff bows, when a commotion awoke ashore. |
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We often went down on a Sunday to scoop up basinfuls of capelin when they washed ashore. |
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Many of them are master mariners who had extensive careers at sea before coming ashore. |
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She plans to take over parenting responsibility for her daughter while her husband, who has been working ashore, goes to sea next year. |
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Fish were recorded thrown ashore in all tidal phases and there was little evidence rough seas were responsible. |
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Meanwhile, those few who had managed to scramble ashore were sheltering below a ruined Turkish fort. |
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The marines were the first combat troops ashore in Vietnam, the first to die in that confusing war. |
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Michael would have to learn to bait the hooks, clean and filet the fish and pack gear when they went ashore. |
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Well, in the region where Hurricane Rita came ashore, some small rural towns were nearly wiped off the map. |
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Tugs brought the mail ashore and passengers were slung ignominiously over the side in baskets and sent ashore in tenders. |
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On the forecastle deck the brass bell was struck, and with anchor down, the tenders were lifted out and readied to ferry passengers ashore. |
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The three men raised both arms as they walked ashore and into a mangrove swamp. |
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Protocol required Cook to seek leave of the Viceroy for his officers and men to come ashore. |
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Then the Vicar-General and some of the Franciscan fathers came ashore carrying two crosses in procession and singing the Te Deum. |
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Once pursed, the entire seine then had to be hauled ashore by teams of men and horses. |
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As soon as the natives retired ashore, we made sail and spent our time standing off and on. |
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Three harbor seals have been trapped and maimed in recent months and left to wash ashore on New York beaches, prompting a Federal investigation. |
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Whether you're sniffing the olive trees ashore or the salt spray on the water, the very air reeks of history. |
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At first, we see one loudly dressed mechanic in stately attitude, with his hand on a cannon, ashore, and a ship riding at anchor in the offing. |
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During their efforts to help the man ashore the Sea Warrior ran aground and the crew had to wait for the tide to rise to free their boat. |
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In between official duties sailors managed to get ashore to take in the sights of Exeter and Torquay. |
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Like many of the earlier heraldic flags, it seems that this form of flag originated in military use ashore. |
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A volunteer party from Monmouth went ashore when the ship called in at the island during the latest stage of her patrol of the region. |
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Flying low, they not only checked boats afloat, but those stored ashore as well. |
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Polystyrene blocks are to be removed from the crew accommodation and the starboard side of the engine room and stored ashore. |
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First and foremost, never, ever leave food aboard a boat that is being stored ashore. |
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Due to the situation ashore in Honiara, there has been no shore leave allowed over the two months the ship was there. |
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That will take some adjustment to how we organize maintenance and training ashore. |
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The prize gives special emphasis to research which improves the management or techniques in sick bays ashore and afloat. |
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This meant that the crew would be ashore for anything up to two months at a time. |
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The day dawned fine and they returned to Shipbuilders Cove and went ashore. |
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When he was very small a group of Phoenician sailors came ashore for trading and stayed over a year. |
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Mathew and his shipmates recovered the man and his five friends to Hawkesbury and took them ashore. |
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In their voyage through the remote islands and atolls they seldom took the boy ashore, fearing infection. |
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Sailors from the ship also wanted to get ashore during this time to help with the aid and restoration program. |
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Handing over the helm he directed me close to land, hopped ashore and left us to fate. |
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He taught them how to approach the whale, iron it, bring it ashore, butcher, render and eat it. |
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These can hit the shore within minutes on occasion, and can rush ashore without warning causing immeasurable damage. |
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Vangelis travelled ashore by pulling on the rope attached to the shore bollard and returned by pulling on the rope attached to the ferry. |
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They had suffered only minor shock and injuries and subsequently were transferred ashore. |
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If they are successful, the men will step ashore for the first time in four months when they reach the coast of California. |
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Richard was tossed into the sea and spent two hours in the freezing water trying to swim ashore but was constantly beaten back by fierce waves. |
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As we scrambled ashore, more experienced sailors were taking to the water with glee aboard a fleet of dinghies and catamarans. |
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Before this the staff had only been able to fly ashore for a couple of days' rest on a rotational basis. |
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Current estimates are that more than a quarter of a million people died when the waves swept ashore. |
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This is also the time to talk to the authorities about public shelters ashore. |
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The enemy cannot go ashore there except in longboats, and archers concealed in the high grass can kill them before they get out of the marsh. |
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The transport of land armies by sea and their support ashore by naval forces actually predate warfare at sea. |
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The time taken to load and unload ships would be reduced, since the goods would no longer have to be taken ashore by lighters. |
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Sailors from Argyll are involved in two projects ashore, the more ambitious one being the building of a health clinic. |
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Sailors on the ship, ashore on liberty or in the local community would raise their level of awareness and be on the lookout for anything unusual. |
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After they came ashore, they removed their naval uniforms and buried them along with a supply of explosives and incendiaries. |
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Residents of Maria Island, off Tasmania's east coast, say a leopard seal that has come ashore appears to have been wounded in a fight. |
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You can tie up your own tender at the dinghy docks or go ashore in one of the harbor launches. |
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Many men were killed, especially at V Beach, where the improvised landing craft, the transport River Clyde, had been run ashore. |
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Insufficient LVTs meant that back-up troops had to be ferried ashore in landing craft. |
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Many more never made it ashore because the landing craft beached too far out, and they drowned under the weight of the equipment they carried. |
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I had to do this while wearing battledress still soaked with seawater from when I waded ashore from the landing craft. |
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Canada's military played a key role in the D-Day landings, code named Operation Overlord, with about 18,000 troops storming ashore at Juno Beach. |
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Then there were the marine corps and army infantry who waded ashore or were landed by air on island after island. |
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The survivor was treated for the effects of drinking seawater, and landed ashore, where he went on to make a full recovery. |
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The other important role for the Navy in Asia is to project land forces ashore. |
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The crew made a distress call after their 47 foot yacht started dragging its anchor and was in danger of going ashore onto the rocks. |
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Coastguards were alerted by the woman's friend, a 14-year-old girl, who managed to swim ashore to raise the alarm. |
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I seem to recall that one apprentice went ashore one Saturday afternoon with a killick he knew. |
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They're coming ashore on landing craft air cushions, the LCATs they're called. |
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Demophoon and Phyllis fell in love when his ship was washed ashore in a storm. |
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Her squadrons were kept busy flying combat air patrols over inshore forces, strafing mine-laying junks, and supporting troops ashore. |
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The bulk of rubbish washed ashore on this stretch of beach has been dumped over the cliffs on the western side of the bay. |
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Michael, who had been the youngest adjutant in the army, came ashore one day later with the 7th Battalion of the Black Watch. |
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He had a youthful face, not yet weathered like the rest and whenever ashore was quite popular with maidens and wenches alike. |
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Redwing ordered them to lower the anchor, and they got into the jolly boats and went ashore. |
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Then the crew, minus the few who were to stand watch, piled into the jolly boats to go ashore. |
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We go ashore by dinghy at a pretty stone jetty surrounded by dense trees and rhododendron bushes. |
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Flotsam and jetsam drifted from the yacht, some having already washed ashore. |
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The deaths were often blamed on the victims' lack of alertness for the large waves that occasionally washed ashore. |
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Several dead beluga whales washed ashore recently in Alaska after dozens were temporarily stranded on mud flats during low tide. |
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Those organisms not securely fastened to the rocks will likely be torn free and washed ashore or carried into the open ocean. |
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To Peter's astonishment a familiar figure was wading ashore, a red and white lifebelt about his waist. |
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It was as much a new world to me then as it was to those earliest Europeans who waded ashore nearly 500 years before me. |
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Historically, this close relationship may have stemmed from the killer whale's habit of driving small whales ashore. |
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When the Queen and Prince Philip visited Tuvalu in 1982, Her Majesty was carried ashore in a canoe by locals. |
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We waded ashore knee-deep in water and then we were bundled into trucks. |
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Obediently he did so, but the waters washed them ashore undamaged. |
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According to some reports, 16,000 birds have washed ashore dead. |
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In Thailand, 30-foot waves washed ashore in the resort area of Phuket. |
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Its purpose was to provide offshore patrol boats with a comparatively lightweight direct and high-angle fire weapon capable of engaging both watercraft and targets ashore. |
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Artificial intelligence systems and expert systems will be required to provide just-in-time logistics in support of the smaller logistics footprint ashore. |
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The change of plan to take the rating ashore forced the ship's command team to replot a route to anchor to the north-east of the island close to Ned's Beach. |
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The salvage plan calls for a further 1000 to be brought ashore before the next attempt at refloating the 15-thousand ton vessel takes place next Wednesday or Thursday. |
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Before leaving the bay, we idle across to the landing stage for Skomer Island, so that Kate can make a brief diversion ashore and deliver the island's mail. |
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During World War II, they found themselves attaching a large number of specialized navy and marine support units to the combat divisions sent ashore in amphibious operations. |
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There are a lot of mosses and lichens, simple in that respect, but it provides a habitat for such a range and complexity of wildlife that come ashore to breed. |
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A child is about to be wrapped in a blanket after being brought ashore in a life raft on the Greek island of Paros from the sinking ferry, Express Samina, in this TV image. |
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The modus operandi, they said, was for divers with aqualungs to collect perlemoen which they then took ashore at dusk in sacks and left in a hideout in the bush and dunes. |
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We are taken ashore and forced to run the gantlet of rows of soldiers while military TV films us. |
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We returned to the jetty and the sailors fastened the boat ashore. |
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He was rescued and taken ashore to Guatemala by coastguards last year. |
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Following another night at anchor we conduct another pax transfer ashore. |
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The three stepped ashore on Trinidad, and tried to adjust their sea legs. |
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The whales had beached near the Dolphin Bay boat ramp and another larger pod had come ashore near a caravan park on Mandalay Beach, four kilometres west of Busselton. |
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One day, he sent word from his ship that he would be coming ashore at Larry's River the next day, and word spread among the communities around the Bay. |
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She gave protection to the merchant ships and sailors, and gave those ashore confidence that the vital supplies would always get through under her watchful eye. |
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Green turtles can be observed in the waters from July to the end of September, when they come ashore to nest on the sand and shingle beaches on the island's eastern side. |
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A platoon from Pembroke paraded through the streets of Parnu, where the salute was taken by the President, and the ship's company also managed a good run ashore. |
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When conditions are good I like to make a day of it, mooring the boat in front of the lighthouse and climbing ashore with a picnic or even a barbecue between dives. |
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Silverdale, where some of the bodies washed ashore, is a beautiful spot. |
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Supplies were brought ashore, and the settlement was mostly complete by early February. |
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After this, the Germans attempted to destroy the Port of Antwerp, which was used by the Allies to bring new material ashore. |
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However, upon entering a shallow, gently sloping shelf, the surge cannot be disperse, but is driven ashore by the wind stresses of the hurricane. |
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The replica Viking ship Skibladner can currently be seen ashore at Haroldswick. |
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In 1957 a message in a bottle from one of the seamen of the HMS Caledonia was washed ashore between Babbacombe and Peppercombe in Devon. |
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They spend most of their lives in the water, but come ashore to mate, give birth, molt or escape from predators, like sharks and killer whales. |
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During the winter months grey seals can be seen hauled out on rocks, islands, and shoals not far from shore, occasionally coming ashore to rest. |
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After fishing, cormorants go ashore, and are frequently seen holding their wings out in the sun. |
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Construction started immediately, with the former frigate HMS Lapwing driven ashore as a temporary accommodation hulk. |
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Upon coming ashore, Andrew struck the rocks with his staff at which point a spring of healing waters gushed forth. |
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Between 1961 and 1982, the Naval Support Activity ashore was administered by US Naval Activities London. |
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So we had to slop out in large containers which had to be carried ashore to be emptied. |
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After the Scots survived a day without being attacked, by either human or animal, the Vikings deemed it safe to spend the night ashore. |
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In 1542 Basque mariners came ashore at a natural harbour on the north east coast of the Strait of Belle Isle. |
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Robert Drummond backed out of the agreement, only to have Bowen appropriate the ships while Drummond was ashore. |
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Some men were sent ashore to rebuild the huts, which caused others to complain that they had come to join a settlement, not build one. |
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The salt was brought ashore in Burghausen and transported further overland. |
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The trip was disrupted when Gardner contracted pneumonia and was carried ashore to the British hospital in Port Said. |
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The Royal Navy commander was Rear Admiral David Snelson who had his headquarters ashore in Bahrain. |
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He flew ashore on the Norfolk's helicopter for daily meetings, with a detachment of Royal Marines ensuring security. |
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This passage describes how Hrothgar's legendary ancestor Scyld was found as a baby, washed ashore, and adopted by a noble family. |
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Despite being clinically dead when rescued, he was brought ashore by the crew and paramedics resuscitated him. |
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Gas from these fields is pumped ashore and used for both domestic and industrial purposes. |
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Now, as the business of standing mast-heads, ashore or afloat, is a very ancient and interesting one, let us in some measure expatiate here. |
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An example of how these concepts have worked ashore is an AIMD Mayport success story. |
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Consequently, passengers who are injured aboard ships may bring suit as if they had been injured ashore through the negligence of a third party. |
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In Britain, the only local source of alkali was from kelp, which washed ashore in Scotland and Ireland. |
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No one aboard a vessel flying a yellow flag would be allowed ashore for an extended period, typically 30 to 40 days. |
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Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. |
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He decided that before scuttling the ship to prevent her falling into enemy hands he had to get the dead and wounded ashore. |
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The seamen, in view of the cold and the wind, had for the most part slunk ashore, and were now roaring and singing in the shoreside taverns. |
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Newland, lead cook and a smart cookie, would find some way to feed them if they got stranded ashore. |
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Local residents buried their bodies which washed ashore near the Bab El Mandeb area off Yemen's coast, he said. |
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Tornadoes and water spouts were possible as the next wave of the storm came ashore Friday. |
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In such cases, we waded out, un-stuck our arrows, and hoisted our slimy prizes ashore before they could slip off the unbarbed tips. |
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In addition, the strong currents had washed ashore many of the underwater obstacles. |
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He sent a group of men ashore in a long boat, making them the first Europeans to land on the northwestern coast of North America. |
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The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon. |
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In the Gulf of Carpentaria, named after Pieter de Carpentier they went ashore. |
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In November, however, the ship became trapped in the ice in the James Bay, and the crew moved ashore for the winter. |
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On the 25th a dozen men from the Halve Maen, using muskets and small cannon, went ashore and assaulted the village near their anchorage. |
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During ideal weather, visitors are put ashore directly in front of the trail that leads into the interior of the island. |
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When the English got ashore, they seized some artillery pieces and a royal strongbox containing gold ducats, the garrison payroll. |
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The following day they came ashore to seek information and take possession of this new land. |
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For some, the attraction is a life unencumbered with the restraints of life ashore. |
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The term bluejacket may be used for British or US Navy enlisted sailors, the latter especially when deployed ashore as infantry. |
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On May 1, 1521 they were invited by rajah Humabon of Cebu, of the Philippines to a banquet ashore to receive a gift for the king of Spain. |
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Mello armed four boats with cannons and personally led them ashore to fill the barrels with water. |
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Shelley's body was washed ashore and later, in keeping with quarantine regulations, was cremated on the beach near Viareggio. |
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He doesn't go ashore, and instead contents himself with scouting the city from his ship, and then sets sail back home alone. |
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The Portuguese are allowed to establish a feitoria in Calicut and Aires Correia, the designated factor for Calicut, goes ashore with some 70 men. |
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Gaily decorated native boats come out to greet them, but remembering Gama's experience, Cabral refuses to go ashore until hostages are exchanged. |
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Cabral dispatches a small party, headed by Nicolau Coelho, in a longboat ashore to make first contact. |
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After all visible survivors had been rescued, the hovercraft was towed ashore at Southsea. |
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In 1782 numerous bodies of men, women and children from HMS Royal George, which sank suddenly at Spithead, were washed ashore at Ryde. |
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I am a simple bar-tender, heir to a monosyllabic sailor who was down to his last eye when he came ashore. |
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During his return to Northumbria Wilfrid's ship was blown ashore on the Sussex coast, the inhabitants of which were at that time pagan. |
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In 1313, in a famous case the St Mary of Bayonne, from Gascony, ran ashore at Chale Bay. |
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Getting ashore when the ship reached Belize City was slow and somewhat difficult. |
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It also removes the necessity for operators, both ashore and afloat, to maintain a physical listening watch. |
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When a favourable wind came for Haakon to leave, he commanded the clergymen to return ashore. |
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Captive rowlocks keep the oars in the boat while you 're rowing and discourage lighthanded hardware seekers when you go ashore. |
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The floating oil slicks put the shoreline at particular risk when they eventually come ashore, covering the substrate with oil. |
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On their first stop ashore at St Jago in Cape Verde, Darwin found that a white band high in the volcanic rock cliffs included seashells. |
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In the 1987 Syringe Tide, medical waste washed ashore in New Jersey after having been blown from Fresh Kills Landfill. |
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Edward had crossed the Channel to put an army ashore in Flanders. |
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More importantly, the first arthropods went ashore to colonize the empty continent of Gondwana. |
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Within seconds, another swimmer saw the sea turn red and scrambled ashore to call for help. |
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Cabral ordered Nicolau Coelho, a captain who had experience from Vasco da Gama's voyage to India, to go ashore and make contact. |
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Half of his crew went ashore to say prayers in a chapel to give thanks for having survived the storm. |
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This document mentions an island that Cabot sailed past to go ashore on the mainland. |
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By the end of the voyage, this had reduced to 144 due to deaths, desertions, being left ashore due to illness, and planned departures. |
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He later anchored his vessel off Kayak Island while crew members went ashore to explore and find water. |
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British forces landed at Calvi on 19 June, and immediately began moving guns ashore to occupy the heights surrounding the town. |
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When Burnet was ashore he hastened to William and eagerly enquired what William now intended to do. |
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Brigadier William Wallace Southam brought ashore his copy of the assault plan, classified as a secret document. |
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They would also have been used to carry supplies directly ashore during the six hours of falling tide when the barges were grounded. |
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Morale of the crews was high, no sabotage had occurred at Brest and the crews went ashore freely. |
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Throughout his life he was a religious man and attended church regularly when ashore. |
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Many of the injured crew were brought ashore at Gibraltar and treated in the Naval Hospital. |
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Hawke pursued, taking a high risk in the middle of a violent storm, and captured or drove ashore five French ships. |
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Christopher Columbus used to glance at caraccas waiting ashore when he was a young boy. |
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The main function of the modern navy is to exploit its control of the seaways to project power ashore. |
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Nine of the ships driven ashore during the battle could be later refloated and also reached Dunkirk. |
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When the transfer begins, it is the ship's cargo pumps that are used to move the product ashore. |
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Some crews coming ashore found rumours had already reported them dead to relatives, while others were jeered for the defeat they had suffered. |
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About one percent of the mines deployed during the first excursion broke free of their mooring cables and washed ashore in Norway within a month. |
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He took an enormous amount of booty, as well as landing his privateers ashore and attacking land fortifications, including the sack of the city of Panama with only 1,400 crew. |
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In June 1631 Murat Reis, with corsairs from Algiers and armed troops of the Ottoman Empire, stormed ashore at the little harbor village of Baltimore, County Cork. |
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In Ferdinand Columbus's biography of his father Christopher, he says that in 1477 his father saw in Galway, Ireland two dead bodies which had washed ashore in their boat. |
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The Spaniards went ashore and traded with the local inhabitants. |
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After his three earth orbits in 1962, American astronaut John Glenn successfully landed in the nearby ocean and was brought back ashore to Grand Turk island. |
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On October 1, he found another group of islands where he went ashore for eight days, exchanged gifts with the local inhabitants and took on water. |
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In June 1631 Murat Reis, with pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Ottoman Empire, stormed ashore at the little harbor village of Baltimore, County Cork. |
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He frequently told me that in the year 1852, when mate of the brig Kaloolah, he went ashore on the island of Montserrat which was then out of the usual track of shipping. |
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Magellan waded ashore with his soldiers and attacked the Mactan defenders, ordering Datu Zula and his warriors to remain aboard the ships and watch. |
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It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I clumb in and paddled her ashore. |
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She came ashore at Kingsdown, Kent, 14 hours and 34 minutes later. |
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Between 1851 and 1867, over twenty ships were lost in these storms, were run ashore and wrecked during a dense fog, or were stove by the ice and abandoned. |
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The victims, according to Edwards, were reportedly buried by local residents when their bodies washed ashore near the Bab El Mandeb area off Yemen's coast. |
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It comes ashore near Helensburgh, then continues through Loch Lomond. |
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When the longships moored along the coast, they sent the slaves ashore to run along the waterfront to gauge whether it was safe for the rest of the crew to follow. |
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During the civil war between 1401 and 1406, the King of West Java had killed 170 personnel of a Chinese embassy when they came ashore on his rival's territory at East Java. |
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Rations were suspended if the ship was at dock and the men ashore. |
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One romantic report appears in Joachimus Cureus' Gentis Silesiae Annales in which he claims that during a voyage in the Black Sea, his ship was forced ashore by storms. |
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Fisher noted he was popular amongst his brother officers because he frequently stayed on board when others went ashore and could take duty for them. |
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The last British invasion of Canada had come to grief on 23 August 1711 when seven troop transports and a storeship ran ashore near Ile aux Oeufs. |
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Kelp in the sea next to the machair softens the impact of waves, reducing erosion, and when it is washed ashore by storms, forms a protective barrier on the beach. |
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Casey McEvoy and John Crews from Jabiru were barramundi fishing on a tributary of Tommycut Creek, when the accident happened on Wednesday and they managed to scramble ashore. |
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Brigadier Simon Fraser, 15th Lord Lovat and his 1st Special Service Brigade arrived in the second wave, piped ashore by Private Bill Millin, Lovat's personal piper. |
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The Scots were not allowed ashore, and illness struck the crowded ship. |
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The warning shot forced two of the RHIBs to make a quick retreat to Zlitan harbour, while the crew of the third ran ashore, beached their craft, and fled on foot. |
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One onlooker, who wishes to remain anonymous, said the sand pumped ashore on the beach is already being washed away by the process of longshore drift. |
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Rockets were used to convey a rope ashore, and the cable on the ship attached to this rope, and hauled ashore to make the land connection at Zawn Reeth. |
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Porthellick Cove contains a memorial to mark the spot where the body of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell was washed ashore after the 1707 Scilly naval disaster. |
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Remaining ashore overnight, they heard cries near the encampment. |
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In rare cases, veteran mariners choose never to go ashore when in port. |
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Another exhibit is called Tidelines, which features objects washed ashore. |
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The design was approved by King George V in 1921, after much opposition from the Admiralty, who have the right to approve or veto any flag flown ashore or on board ship. |
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They were sent ashore to assess damage to Turkish fortifications after bombardment by British and French ships and, if necessary, to complete their destruction. |
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Staines sent a party ashore and wrote a detailed report for the Admiralty. |
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Following the gales it is reckoned that 5,000 men died, by drowning, starvation and slaughter at the hands of English forces after they were driven ashore in Ireland. |
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Genetic investigations of the pilot whales driven ashore in the Faroese hunts have shown a relatedness amongst whales, suggesting a matrilineal structure within social units. |
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Dead leatherbacks that wash ashore are microecosystems while decomposing. |
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Nelson's boat reached its intended landing point but as he stepped ashore he was hit in the right arm by a musketball, which fractured his humerus bone in multiple places. |
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At this spot, Columbus took on board several islanders who had gathered onshore with food, and told them that his crew wished to come ashore to fulfill their vow. |
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The lighthouse was automated on 7 April 1992, and the keepers came ashore. |
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