If the two Koreas share the world's scariest land border, the Taiwan Strait is its scariest sea passage.
The fear was that when this quantity of water hit the bottom, it would detach the ice from the bed on which it rested and lubricate its passage to the sea.
So too is the hope that the North-East Passage above Russia, also known as the Northern Sea Route (NSR), as well as the North-West Passage from the Atlantic over the top of North America, will become navigable for several months each summer.
Sailing along the coast of Siberia by the north-east passage, or Northern Sea Route (NSR), as Russians and mariners call it, cuts the distance between western Europe and east Asia by roughly a third.
Visitors shuffle through a secret underground passage leading from the wardrobe of a Sea Tiger leader to his garden.
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That is especially true if the U.S. Senate buys into the false promise that the fatally flawed Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) will somehow safeguard our rights of passage, despite our declining ability to project power in the face of growing Chinese access-denial capabilities.
The remark referenced a gospel passage in which Jesus Christ sleeps amid a storm at sea and then awakes to calm the tempest.
The Navy and U.S. shipping industry support the Law of the Sea because it codifies traditional navigational rights such as the right of passage through international straits.
The bladder held the kite in a wing shape and allowed it to float on the water--this comes in especially handy if you crash during a solo passage between Maui and Oahu and need to relaunch at sea.
The Arctic's importance has gained extra strategic and economic significance as melting ice in the polar region strengthens the feasibility of nations to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) across the top of Russia and the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago.
Reading on, he came to a passage about reindeer being wiped out on St Matthew Island in the Bering Sea.
In it, she conjures sea creatures descended from slaves who drowned during the voyage from Africa, known as the Middle Passage.
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Dedicated to Ma Cho Po, goddess of the sea, it was built in the 1840s by early Hokkien immigrants from China in gratitude for safe passage to Singapore.
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