SHALLOW WATER

Crosswords: SHALLOW WATER

Love to kick my feet 'way down the shallow water. (GREEN RIVER; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Advanced Shallow Water Treasure Hunting With the Fisher 1280-X Aquanaut Metal Detector (reference)

• Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Touched by an Angel - Shallow Water (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Shallow water bathymetry Sand waves off Padre Island Delineation possible because of widespread use of recording fathometers. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

808 fathometer transducer Hydrographic Manual 1942 Called first portable sonic sounding device First acoustic sounding device used on C&GS sounding boats for shallow water First use of shallow water fathometer continuous records by C&GS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Point Udall, the easternmost point of U. S. territory in the Western Hemisphere. Note wave refraction patterns in the shallow water to the left of the point. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Navy reservists shuttling survey crew's annual supplies ashore with "Water Buffalo" from an LST of the Barrow Expedition (BAREX). Shallow water necessitated anchoring offshore. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

This is an image that shows Barren Island after the restoration work was completed. Dredge material was placed to support the planting. The planting was conducted to allow the marsh to fill in and establish itself before the geotube disintegrated. Prior to the restoration, this area was a high-energy shallow water environment. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Chris Doley of the NOAA Restoration Center fishing gillnets to collect larger fish that inhabit near-shore shallow water habitats. The numbers and types of species were measured to compare and determine large species fish use of shallow water habitats at Poplar Island. The nets used had 3 sizes of mesh. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A shallow water reef scene. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Obtaining soundings in shallow water. In: "L'Ocean" by J. Thoulet, 1904. Library Call Number GC11.T49 1904. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 26. Current meter invented by Thorsten Arwidsson for use in shallow water. Less information is available concerning this model than the preceding instrument. However, it was used by the explorer Sven Hedin, member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the last person to receive Swedish knighthood. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 55. Stahlberg mounting devised by Dr. Walter Stahlberg, conservator of the Museum fur Meereskunde at Berlin. This mounting could be used with either a messenger for reversing in relatively shallow water or a helical system for deep water. It was used on board the German vessel MOWE off the coast of Africa in 1911. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

These wash back and forth in shallow water on a sandy bottom, and are sometimes cast on the shore.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Children are most often affected because they swim, wade, and play in the shallow water more than adults. (references)

Anyone who swims or wades in infested water may be at risk. Larvae are more likely to be swimming along shallow water by the shoreline. (references)

Economic History

Azerbaijan

In 2000, Caspian Geophysical expanded its services using 2D/3D seismic technology in shallow water and transition zones. (references)

Bahamas

Reserved businesses include: wholesale and retail operations; commission agencies engaged in the import/export trade; real estate and domestic property management agencies; domestic newspaper and magazine publication; domestic advertising and public relations firms; nightclubs and restaurants (except specialty, gourmet and ethnic restaurants and restaurants operating in a hotel, resort complex or tourist attraction); security services; domestic distribution and building supplies; construction companies (except for special structures for which international expertise is required); personal cosmetics/beauty establishments; shallow water scalefish; crustacean; mollusk and sponge fishing operations; auto and appliance service operations; and public transportation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Chinese 

淀 . (various references)

Danish

lavvand (shoal), lavt vand (shoal), fladvand (shoal), fladt vand (shoal). (various references)

Dutch

ondiepte (shallow, shallows, shoal), ondiep water (shoal). (various references)

Finnish

matala vesi (shoal). (various references)

French

maigre d'eau (shoal), haut fond (shallow, shoal). (various references)

German

Watt (mudflap, mud-flats, tideland, Watt, Watts), Untiefe (depth, shallow, shallows, shelf, shoal), Flachwasser (shoal), flaches Wasser (shoal). (various references)

Greek 

ρηχά νερά (shallow), ρηχά ?δατα (shoal), αβαθή ?δατα (shoal). (various references)

Hebrew 

בצע�" (ditch). (various references)

Hungarian

sekély víz (white water). (various references)

Italian

secca (shallow, shoal), bassofondo (shallow, shoal, tideland, watts), basso fondo (shoal), acque basse (low tide, low water, shallow, shoal). (various references)

Manx

ushtey thanney. (various references)

Pig Latin

allowshay aterway

Portuguese

água pouco profunda (shoal). (various references)

Scottish

tanalach (a shallow). (various references)

Spanish

bajo fondo (shallows, shoal, shoals), bajo (bank, base, bass, bass voice, basso, below, beneath, bottom, deep, depth, despicable, down, humble, low, low down, low lying, lower, menial, short, small, subdued, under, underneath, would be). (various references)

Swedish

grunt vatten (shoal). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: hallowers, shallower, swallower, wallowers.

-4 letters: awlworts, hallower, laterals, loathers, ratholes, reallots, rostella, sallower, trehalas, wallower, whortles.

-5 letters: aerosat, alastor, altheas, areolas, awlwort, earshot, halloas, halloes, hallows, halters, harlots, harslet, hartals, hollers, holster, hostler, howlers, howlets, lateral, lathers, lethals, loather, loathes, rathole, reallot, seawall, shallot, shallow, shoaler, slather, stellar, swallow, swather, tallows, thalers, thawers.