The Buoys

little wavy, but that wasn’t going to stop me from enjoying myself. When I first stepped in, I thought it was a reasonable temperature, but the deeper I got, the more I realised how wrong I was. My brother Zach, and I decided that we should touch the buoy. I first needed to get my head below the lake’s surface to get comfortable with the water. My shivering body wanted out right from the beginning, but my mind was telling me otherwise. Without thinking, I sunk underwater and almost immediately returned

all that day. In an attempt to get in a little of the daily exercise recommended by my soccer coach, I swam to the neighboring buoy. The buoy was about 50 feet away from the boat dock. The swim was not far, but it was far enough to make me breathe hard. It also made Katrina, Madison, Lauren, and Olivia, who had followed, breathe hard. Behind them, closing in on the buoy, were my mom and two younger brothers slowly paddling on their floats. About 6 feet from our destination we drifted upon a shoal

It was a hot summer day and Amanda was elated her father had agreed to take her brother and her to the beach. Amanda took a deep breath, taking in the beautiful scent of the ocean air. She could hear the voices of animals and the hum of pleasant conversations. Amanda glanced up at the radiant, sapphire sky and the yellow as a lemon sun. It was a sweltering day in July and Amanda was exhilarated that she was in the turquoise ocean. Once in a blue moon, a refreshing breeze blew by everyone and gently

Introduction The Brent Spar was a storage buoy, commissioned on 1976 for oil storage and subsequent transfer to tankers. It was located in British territorial waters. This buoy belonged to Shell U.K. and Exxon; Shell was in charge of the operations. By 1989, Shell U.K. and Exxon finally had an operational pipe line so the Brent Spar was no longer useful. Both decided to decommission the Brent Spar on 1992 and Shell U.K. was going to be in charge, being the one who handled operations. Shell U

In a complex world, one yearns for meaning or purpose. In everyday life, individuals often overlook the significant details. They keep their head down and hope motivation finds them. In a world of narcissism, May Swenson keeps her observations keen. In her poem, “Water Picture”, she takes a unique perspective on the world around her. She perceives the world upside down through the pond water in the park. Every image she depicts is viewed as a reflection in the water, and each image is telling a story

Development of off shore wave generator systems and integrating into Disaster Management systems. Rahul Basu, raulbasu@gmail.com Visiting Professor Alpha Institute of Technology Kannur PO Bangalore 56077, Ka, India Paul T. Wegener Waveberg Development www.waveberg.com 4016 Lark Street San Diego, Ca 92013, USA Abstract The SAARC region with over a billion populations is contiguous to the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea. Utilization of ocean resources for power generation such

data the scientist used for the temperatures. One dataset was from ships in the ocean that grab ocean water in their engine rooms and then take the temperature, the other is from buoys that float along in the water and take the temperature. The scientist said that the ships temperatures where generally warmer than the buoy temperatures which are generally more

The sharks that haunted the beach. One reason why he had refused to let them go to the beach even though they only lived a mile from it. Nine years after her mother’s strange disappearance, he had finally let them go to the beach. Amanda remembered how the whole family had gone to the beach every weekend during the summer ever since she was only a few months old. She knew that because her mom had told her so many stories about everything that she had done when she was little. Amanda laughed at one

In the novel, My Family and other Animals, by Gerald Durrell, the use of irony conveys Durrell’s sense of humor as he is previewing the account of his family trip in an amusing way. When speaking about his writing, Durrell mentions that “it is doubtful if this [book] would have been written without the help and enthusiasm of the following people. I mention this so that the blame can be laid in the right quarter” (10). This situation is an example of verbal irony, as Durrell seems to credit the aforementioned

L.O. Task Term 4 The sport I have chosen to do for this task is swimming. In this task I will be identifying my strengths and weaknesses as well as what fitness tests I can undertake to help my fitness training.  Identifying my Strengths and Weaknesses 1) Strengths’: i. Freestyle – I am a really good Freestyle swimmer. ii. Breaststroke – I really enjoy this Stroke. 2) Weaknesses: i. I cannot swim Butterfly very well, this makes it hard to do the IM. ii. I cannot hold my breath for long.