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    and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation. Shoals are also known as sandbanks, sandbars...
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  • Shoal Water is a 1940 novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer). It was first serialised in Blue Book between July and October...
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    Scarborough Shoal, also known as Panacot, Bajo de Masinloc ("Masinloc Shoal" in Spanish), Huangyan Island (Mandarin Chinese: 黄岩岛; pinyin: Huáng Yán Dǎo;...
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    Shoaling and schooling In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction...
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  • shoal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A shoal is a sandbank or reef creating shallow water, especially where it forms a hazard to shipping. Shoal...
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  • The Scarborough Shoal standoff is a dispute between the Philippines and the People's Republic of China over the Scarborough Shoal. Tensions began on April...
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    to the "danger bearing"—the shoal area in which the safe 50–60 feet (15–18 m) of water that could accommodate a ship shoaled to only 10–20 feet (3.0–6.1 m)...
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    (1840), and Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water (1840) were first shown. A 2003 exhibition at the Clark Art Institute...
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    turbulent shoal water and enter Lake Erie. The Welland Canals used the Welland River to connect to the Niagara River south of the falls, enabling water traffic...
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    Gunkholing is a boating term referring to a type of cruising in shallow or shoal water, meandering from place to place, spending the nights in coves. The term...
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  • northwest of the Lake of the Woods. Depending on the water level of Lake of the Woods, Shoal Lake runs both a tributary and distributary of Lake of...
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    when she ran aground 1.6 mi (2.6 km) from Thimble Shoal Light, near Old Point Comfort. She hit shoal water a distance of three ship-lengths from the main...
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    In fluid dynamics, wave shoaling is the effect by which surface waves, entering shallower water, change in wave height. It is caused by the fact that...
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    Turner, Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water, 1840, oil on canvas [15] Archived October 20, 2020, at the Wayback Machine...
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  • Shoal Lake 40 First Nation (Ojibwe: Iskatewi-zaaga'iganiing 40) is an Ojibway or Ontario First Nation reserve located in the Eastman Region of Manitoba...
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    Stratford Shoal Light, officially Stratford Shoal (Middle Ground) Light, is a lighthouse on a shoal in the middle of Long Island Sound approximately halfway...
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    yellow tinted and opaque. The eggs are laid on the ocean floor, often in shoal water, sticking together in loose clumps, surrounded by seaweeds and stones...
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  • Shoal Lake Water Aerodrome (TC LID: CKB9) is located adjacent to Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. List of airports in Manitoba Shoal Lake Airport Nav Canada's...
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    Greater Winnipeg Water District Aqueduct (GWWDA) is an aqueduct that supplies the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, with water from Shoal Lake, Kenora District...
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    Shoal Creek is a stream and an urban watershed in Austin, Texas, United States. Shoal Creek has its headwaters near The Domain and runs in a southerly...
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    longer an island, but rather is now just a shoal south of Middle Island. The island was last seen above water 120 years ago. "Lake Erie Island Sites". Middle...
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    Second Thomas Shoal, also known as Ayungin Shoal (Filipino: Buhanginan ng Ayungin, lit. 'sandbank of silver perch'), Bãi Cỏ Mây (Vietnamese) and Rén'ài...
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    when the wind had dropped but might be used by any vessel in confined, shoal water to place it in a more desirable position, provided she had enough manpower...
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    every ten seconds which turns red from 344° to 360° when covering the shoal water in the vicinity of Nassau Sound. The lighthouse is listed as number 565...
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  • her station abreast of the town of Norfolk, and stuck flat aground in shoal water." At least 4,163 people were killed. A storm struck the eastern coast...
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    enveloping the aggregate grains. These types of intraclasts form in shoal water environments with intermediate wave and current activity, where grains...
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    Philippine-occupied Second Thomas Shoal in the disputed Spratly Islands. The Second Thomas Shoal (named Ren'ai Jiao by China; Ayungin Shoal by the Philippines) is...
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  • navigation, Point Hannon is marked by a light. The low sandy spit with shoal water extends about 600 feet (180 m) east of the light. The open waters to...
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  • the Muskeget Island group, Dry Shoal, was once larger. Now separated from Muskeget by a stretch of fairly shallow water, it is accessible by kayakers,...
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    Green Jacket Shoal is a 33-acre (13 ha) shoal and ship graveyard in Providence River, between the cities of East Providence and Providence, Rhode Island...
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