Divers Sentence Examples

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  • They have great abundance of silk, from which they weave cloths of silk, and gold of divers kinds, and they also manufacture all sorts of equipments for an army.

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  • Divers have been employed to collect amber from the deeper waters.

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  • A concordat may assume divers forms - historically, three.

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  • The successive emigrations and occupation of the Alpine region by divers Teutonic tribes from the 5th to the 6th centuries are, too, known to us only in outline, while to them, as to the Frankish kings and emperors, the Alps offered a route from one place to another rather than a permanent residence.

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  • The town officials consist of the selectmen (usually three, five or seven, sometimes nine), the town clerk, treasurer, assessors, tax collector, school committee men, and the holders of divers minor offices according to local needs.

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  • The sponge divers brought up sponges valued at £24,630.

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  • The miners work in the bottom in the same manner as divers in an ordinary diving-bell.

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  • And this I have experimented in a dark Room by illuminating those bodies with uncompounded light of divers colours.

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  • During the next years Theodore was beset by enemies on divers sides.

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  • The great lava-fields, however, are composed of vast sheets of lava, ruptured and riven in divers ways (helluhraun).

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  • However, by an act of 1547 every person entitled to the benefit of clergy is to be allowed the same, "although he hath been divers times married to any single woman or single women, or to any widow or widows, or to two wives or more."

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  • In February parliament discovered that " by divers sundry old authentic histories and chronicles " it was manifest that the realm of England was an empire governed by one supreme head, the king, to whom all sorts and degrees of people - both clergy and laity - ought to bear next to God a natural and humble obedience, and that to him God had given the authority finally to determine all causes and contentions in the realm, " without restraint, or provocation to any foreign princes or potentates of the world."

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  • From the day of the earliest foreign commerce sailors and traders of divers nationalities began to settle in the province.

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  • In 1662 (the year of the Act of Uniformity) he reprinted the Irenicum with an appendix, in which he sought to prove that "the church is a distinct society from the state, and has divers rights and privileges of its own."

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  • The treatise De cursibus ecclesiasticis, discovered in 1853, is a liturgical manual for determining the hour of divers nocturnal offices by the position of the stars.

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  • Here also he dipped into divers stores of learning, notably classics under Wolf.

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  • In 1539 the last and 60th abbot of Glastonbury, Robert Whyting, was lodged in the Tower on account of "divers and sundry treasons."

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  • Between 1825 and 1827 he produced divers sketches, chronological tables, &c., of modern history.

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  • These are divided into Familiar Correspondence, Correspondence in Old Age, Divers Letters and Letters without a Title; to which may be added the curious autobiographical fragment entitled the Epistle to Posterity.

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  • But then having thought on a tender way of polishing, proper for metall, whereby, as I imagined, the figure also would be corrected to the last; I began to try, what might be effected in this kind, and by degrees so far perfected an Instrument (in the essential parts of it like that I sent to London), by which I could discern Jupiters 4 Concomitants, and shewed them divers times to two others of my acquaintance.

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  • Colours are not Qualifications of Light, derived from Refractions, or Reflections of natural Bodies (as 'tis generally believed), but original and connate properties, which in divers Rays are divers.

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  • In autumn last I spent two months in calculations to no purpose for want of a good method, which made me afterwards return to the first book, and enlarge it with divers propositions, some relating to comets, others to other things, found out last winter.

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  • Divers obtains it by mixing cold saturated solutions containing one molecular proportion of sodium nitrate, and two molecular proportions of acid sodium sulphite, and then adding a saturated solution of potassium chloride to the mixture.

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  • The inhabitants present a remarkable conglomeration of different races, various nationalities, divers languages, distinctive costumes and conflicting faiths, giving, it is true, a singular interest to what may be termed the human scenery of the city, but rendering impossible any close social cohesion, or the development of a common civic life.

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  • The question now was how to occupy the military activity of a young, handsome, chivalric and gallant prince, ondoyant et divers, intoxicated by his first victory and his tardy accession to fortune.

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  • In his Histoire des francais des divers etats, ou histoire de France aux cinq derniers siecles (10 vols., 1828-1844) he undertook to describe the different classes and occupations of the community.

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  • For this he made a collection of manuscripts, which he sold in 1835 (many of them passed into the library of Sir Thomas Philipps), drawing up a catalogue under the singular title of Traite de materiaux manuscrits de divers genres d'histoire.

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  • These pumps are capable of supplying ample air to two divers simultaneously, at the depth of twelve fathoms.

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  • Hundreds of kilometers of coastline, many of which are still unexplored, make the Maltese archipelago a favorite with adventurous divers.

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  • In the UK, divers with allergic asthma are permitted to dive, although those with exercise or emotion induced bronchospasm are banned.

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  • A well equipped craft providing vigilant surface cover and ready to recall divers or follow marker buoys is essential.

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  • Both divers commenced the ascent but at 30m the casualty lost buoyancy and started to sink feet first.

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  • The majority of them are stunned by divers who use cyanide to poison the waters around them.

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  • The divers then decompressed on 60% & 80% Nitrox.

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  • Later in the morning 8 great crested grebes and 6 red-throated divers were present feeding offshore.

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  • Look at the most experienced divers in your club, I bet most of them have shot belts!

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  • Recreational divers give many reasons for making the switch to wings.

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  • There are regular power cuts (although Swahili divers have their own back up generator ).

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  • You can find everything Sharm el Sheikh is famous for without the hassle, cost and being one of 500 divers in the water!

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  • Here you can see the barnacle encrusted Alum Bay wooden gun carriage wheel brought up by divers in 2002.

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  • Clearly enthused by the subject matter, Brownlow wants to inspire more divers to explore fresh water.

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  • Koh Tao is much quieter and extremely popular with divers and watersports enthusiasts.

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  • If multiple divers have been deployed and the divers become separated, the support vessel will remain equidistant from each.

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  • Divers injected grout into voids under the weir to stabilize it.

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  • Situated in the village of Xewkija, Divers Lodge is a family-run guesthouse where you will enjoy a warm welcome.

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  • Very lucky divers might have a seal for company on the way up, or see the guillemots diving down to meet them.

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  • Most divers head straight for the north pinnacle where you can find schooling hammerhead sharks.

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  • For the more adventurous holidaymaker you can even learn to Scuba Dive at the famous Looe Divers.

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  • When they are hunting divers hunters usually rely on large numbers of decoys to attract the ducks.

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  • A " stinger " suit would be recommended for divers to ward off box jellyfish.

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  • We have ' divers lusts, ' Titus iii.

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  • Divers installed some of the essential lane cable anchor points in the finish area - a pretty mammoth project all round!

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  • A current list of approved medical examiners of divers may be obtained from either the HSE or DV Diving.

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  • The only movement on the sea involved 3 passing Red-throated Divers although the settled Common and Velvet Scoters were also still offshore.

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  • Three divers were reported overdue by their dive boat.

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  • Divers will see parrotfish and turtles, but probably not sharks!

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  • At Gilimanuk Bay, muck divers will find a host of tiny terrors, including the Ambon scorpionfish and the Harlequin ghost pipefish.

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  • Inland lochans can hold red-throated divers, while, in summer, the hill ridges and moors have golden plover, curlew and skylark.

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  • British divers will be amazed at the intact nature of the wrecks, which often have all portholes intact.

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  • People have very preconceived ideas about cave diving - it's amazing how damning open-water divers can be about cave diving.

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  • Brian Barwick's hopes of using video evidence to retrospectively punish the divers are rejected by FIFA.

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  • More appropriate sightings for the time of year included a redwing at the Bill and 4 Red-throated Divers passing through offshore.

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  • Divers visiting Kenya typically dive in one of four large marine reserves.

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  • Twenty Red-throated Divers passed through off the Bill, where the 25 wintering Common scoter were also still present.

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  • Nine Eider, 2 Little Gulls and a few Common scoter lingered off the Bill where 3 Red-throated Divers also passed by.

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  • No injuries occurred to the divers but the competence of the charter boat skippers operating in the area was called into question.

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  • Eight huge stingrays seemed to be homing in on the divers below.

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  • Divers could be sent down, robot submersibles used to investigate and samples dredged from surface boats.

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  • The south side of this small island offers divers the opportunity to swim along cliff faces, through caves, and swim throughs.

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  • We landed at 10.30pm and were met at Luqa Airport in Malta by a minibus taxi provided by Calypso Divers.

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  • Patience here is courageous perseverance in the face of suffering and difficulty is produced through divers temptations.

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  • Last week The Orcadian revealed that Kirkwall police were investigating the alleged theft of items by a group of divers from Liverpool.

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  • Two deep-sea wreck divers receive a tip-off from a local fisherman about a site off the New Jersey coast.

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  • Yet seeming transmutations of Colors may be made, where there is any mixture of divers sorts of Rays.

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  • O&W divers watch, made by the esteemed Swiss military watchmakers, Ollech & Wajs.

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  • The Selkie has a small wheelhouse - there's only room for a couple of divers and the skipper.

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  • A concordat may assume divers forms, - historically, three.

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  • His principal works are Traite des sources de la corruption qui rbgne aujourd'hui parmi les Chretiens (1700), translated into English, Dutch and German, practically a plea for a more ethical and less doctrinal type of Christianity; Catechisme ou instruction dans la religion chretienne (1702), also translated into English, Dutch and German; Traite contre l'impurete (1707); Sermons sur divers textes (1722-1724); Theologiae compendium (1739); and Traduction de la Bible (1724).

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  • She died on the 31st of December 1705, bequeathing her great wealth, the result of long hoarding, after the payment of divers charitable legacies, to King Pedro; and was buried with great ceremony and splendour at Belem.

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  • The formulae of Kekule, Divers and Armstrong have been discarded, and it remains to be shown whether Nef's carbonyloxime formula (or the bimolecular formula of Steiner) or Scholl's glyoxime peroxide formula is correct.

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  • Towards the morning of the 3rd of September he again spoke, "using divers holy expressions, implying much inward consolation and peace," together with "some exceeding self-debasing words, annihilating and judging himself."

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  • Their history is therefore not the history of a single people, centralizing and absorbing its constituent elements by a process of continued evolution, but of a group of cognate populations, exemplifying divers types of constitutional developments.

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  • First he failed to see the great structural difference between the penguins (which Illiger had placed as a group, Impennes, of equal rank to his other families) and the auks, divers and grebes, Pygopodes - combining all of them to form a "Typus " (to use his term) Urinatores; and secondly he admitted among the Natatores, though as a distinct " Typus " Podoidae, the genera Podoa and Fulica, which are now known to belong to the Rallidae - the latter indeed (see Cool') being but very slightly removed from the moorhen (q.v.).

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  • Finally divers, auks and penguins, according to him, form the last term in the series, and it seems fit to him that they should be regarded as forming a separate order.

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  • It appears in the volume of the Memoires presente's d l'Institut par divers savans for 1805.

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  • It has been attributed to Beza, Hotman, Casaubon and Duplessis-Mornay, by divers writers on various grounds - to the last-named on the very respectable authority of Grotius.

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  • D'Artigny says Servetus fit les argumens to a Spanish version of the Summa of Aquinas; this, and divers trait& de grammaire from Latin into Spanish have not been identified.

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  • Morin (see Notice sur divers appareils dynamometriques, Paris, 1841), in his classical experiments on traction, arranged his appar atus so that the change in form of the spring was continuously recorded on a sheet of paper drawn under a style.

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  • The right claimed by the less, as a statute of 1379 complains, benefices continued to be given " to divers people of another language and of strange lands and nations, and sometimes to actual enemies of the king and of his realm, which never made residence in this same, nor cannot, may not, nor will not in any wise bear and perform the charges of the same benefice in hearing confessions, preaching or teaching the people."

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  • The annates were thereafter to accrue to the king; and bishops and archbishops were thenceforth, in case the pope refused to confirm them,' to be consecrated and invested within the realm, " in like manner as divers other archbishops and bishops have been heretofore in ancient times by sundry the king's most noble progenitors."

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  • The autograph has been disputed, but divers passages, and especially one in The Tempest, show that at first or second hand the poet was acquainted with the essayist.

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  • Under his sister's care the young emperor was trained in divers accomplishments which won him the name of Calligraphes (" the Penman"), but grew up into a weak though amiable character.

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  • In 1630 the Dutch West India Company granted the island to Michael Pauw as a part of his patroonship of Pavonia, and it was bought at this time from the Indians for "some duffels, kettles, axes, hoes, wampum, drilling awls, jew's harps, and divers other small wares"; but before Pauw had established a settlement upon it he sold his title back to the company.

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  • Finally the poorer clergy, neglected by their bishops, and excluded from all preferment, took part with the szlachta against their own spiritual rulers and eagerly devoured and imparted to their flocks, in their own language, the contents of the religious tracts which reached them by divers ways from Goldberg and Konigsberg.

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  • The history of Africa Minor is the history of all those foreigners who have successively endeavoured to exploit this land, the history of their divers civilizations struggling against an everrenascent barbarism.

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  • Richard Head in his Life and Death of Mother Shipton (1684) says, "the body was of indifferent height, her head was long, with sharp fiery eyes, her nose of an incredible and unproportionate length, having many crooks and turnings, adorned with many strange pimples of divers colours, as red, blue and dirt, which like vapours of brimstone gave such a lustre to her affrighted spectators in the dead time of the night, that one of them confessed several times in my hearing that her nurse needed no other light to assist her in her duties" Allowing for the absurdity of this account, it certainly seems (if any reliance is to be placed on the so-called authorities) that the child was phenomenally plain and deformed.

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  • His principal works are - Propaedeumata aphoristica (London, 1 55 8); Monas hieroglyphica (Antwerp, 1564); Epistola ad Fredericum Commandinum (Pesaro, 1570); Preface Mathematical to the English Euclid (1570); Divers Annotations and Inventions added after the tenth book of English Euclid (1570); Epistola praefixa Ephemeridibus Joannis Feldi, a.

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  • In the registers of these popes, which are now being actively investigated and published, dispensations (licences to violate the laws of the Church); indulgences; imposts levied with increasing regularity on universal Christendom and, in particular, on the clerks; the settlement of questions relating to church debts; the granting of lucrative benefices to Roman functionaries; the divers processes by which the Curia acquired the immediate disposal of monastic, capitulary and episcopal revenues - in short, all financial matters are of the first importance.

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  • Laurent (1626-1681) became a pastor, and was the author of Sonnets chretiens sur divers sujets (1677); Charles (1633-1697) was professor of physic at the university of Leiden, and physician to the prince of Orange; Peter (1644-1722) was ordained a priest in the Church of England, and became dean of Armagh.

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  • Brian Barwick 's hopes of using video evidence to retrospectively punish the divers are rejected by FIFA.

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  • More appropriate sightings for the time of year included a Redwing at the Bill and 4 Red-throated Divers passing through offshore.

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  • His specialty is rheology of polysaccharide gels although his knowledge is extensive and covers topics as divers as extrusion technology through to food packaging.

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  • Along the rim of a submerged volcano, divers see trails of bubbles emitted from the ocean floor.

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  • Once hooked in, the divers not only have a ringside seat to the show, they become part of the show.

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  • Twenty Red-throated Divers passed through off the Bill, where the 25 wintering Common Scoter were also still present.

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  • Nine Eider, 2 Little Gulls and a few Common Scoter lingered off the Bill where 3 Red-throated Divers also passed by.

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  • Holidays in Runaway Bay are popular with scuba divers, with a wreck in the area.

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  • The answer lies in the many wrecks on the seabed in an area that is closer to home for many divers than Scapa Flow.

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  • Divers have also been used to survey water uprisings from the seafloor in the areas off the Dounreay foreshore.

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  • Jeff McCall asks Any divers in the group take seasickness pills for boat diving trips?

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  • He was found by the standby divers, floating on the surface under the ice.

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  • Blue Planet Aquarium - Cheshire Not far from BSAC headquarters is the only aquarium in England which allows divers to swim with sharks.

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  • Bumphead parrotfish often swim past, unconcerned by the presence of divers.

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  • The Selkie has a small wheelhouse - there 's only room for a couple of divers and the skipper.

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  • Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands Scapa is a wreck divers paradise.

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  • In addition to allowing divers to use their own digital cameras, some waterproof housing units also offer supplementary optics.

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  • If you are just starting out in underwater photography, you should consider talking with divers who are experienced in the field.

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  • Many scuba companies allow divers to rent underwater cameras for specific sessions.

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  • Not every camera store carries underwater photo equipment, which is why most experienced divers shop online.

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  • With the vast amount of underwater photo equipment on the market today, even inexperienced divers can capture vibrant shots under the sea.

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  • For fishers or divers who don't want to scare away their prey or wildlife, camo wetsuits help them blend into their aquatic environment.

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  • Aquaflite also offers suits for physically challenged divers too; all the more reason to shop there.

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  • Henderson wet suits are highly regarded by divers, and other water sport enthusiasts.

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  • Swimmers, water skiers, scuba divers, body surfers, and kayakers all usually wear rash guards.

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  • Never swim under diving boards because the divers can't always see you and may not be able to avoid a collision.

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  • Underwater divers and other aquatic enthusiasts appreciate the usefulness of swimming flippers, or fins, every time they take a dip.

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  • Underwater - In 1983, 350 divers from the Buffalo Dive Club played underwater for 45 consecutive days.

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  • Online Games-Mad Shark is a very simple online game in which kids become the shark and attempt to eat as many divers and sharks as possible before being killed.

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  • Kids will love the "Shark Rampage" game as they become the shark and hunt divers and attack helicopters.

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  • Later, other divers also discovered more large blocks that appeared to be man-made.

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  • This professional Promaster combines two key features for today's divers - Aqualand depth meter technology plus a fifty minute chronograph.

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  • Just the right combination of functions for divers, Citizen presents this Promaster Chrono watch.

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  • Another watch made in the same vein is the Oyster Perpetual Sea Dweller 2000, made in 1971 for deep-sea divers.

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  • Professional divers can rely on the Citizen Aqualand watch to take them deep into the sea and back.

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  • They have the capability of resisting water pressure up to 300 meters, which makes them sought after by divers and sports enthusiasts who want durable comfort and style.

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  • Nylon watch straps are also often teamed with waterproof watches for divers and sailors.

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  • The company developed the world's first ever voice recognition watch as well as the first ever professional divers watch with an electronic depth sensor.

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  • The Timex Helix was a low cost altimeter-barometer watch which was used by divers, climbers and other outdoor adventure enthusiasts.

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  • When most people hear about the Kobold divers watch collection, their first reaction is confusion.

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  • The resulting timepieces frequently appear on the wrists of professional deep sea or extreme divers and Polar field scientists.

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  • With their unique blend of worldwide-manufactured components and rugged construction, Kobold divers watch models are the ultimate in perfect precision.

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  • Along with high-profile clientele such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Bruce Springsteen, Kobold's diving watches attract deep sea divers like James Samaki and Ingo Vollmer as well.

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  • For divers, the four wristwatches that make up the Arctic collection are the cream of the crop.

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  • Not only are they aerodynamic and stylish, they come packed with a dazzling assortment of high-tech features in keeping with the company's commitment to the high standards set forth by Polar explorers, deep sea divers, and ice divers.

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  • To refine your horology education, visit the company's website and explore additional Kobold divers watch lines, company information, and technology timelines.

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  • This collection makes good use of the innovative Eco-Drive technology by providing divers with a performance watch that never needs winding or batteries.

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  • Deep sea lovers yearning for precision timepieces may find the answer to their dreams hidden in the exclusive collection of Seiko divers watches.

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  • Water resistant to an unbelievable depth of 660 meters, this watch fulfills the requirements of all types of divers.

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  • Of all Seiko divers watches on the market today, this model features the most in-depth diving functions.

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  • Along with making use of a 24 hour 1/100th second chronograph and countdown timer, serious divers can also access decompression data, depth alarms and data, ascent alarms, nitrogen levels and Nitrox diving data.

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  • The growing popularity of extreme water sports and saturation diving ensures a lasting place for Seiko divers watches.

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  • Both swimmers and amateur or professional women divers will get years of dependable usage from this Eco-Drive watch.

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  • Dancers, divers, and gymnasts all benefit from learning the splits.

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  • Pearl divers need to stay underwater for several minutes without scuba gear, and with training they adapt to do just that.

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  • Likewise, scuba divers have used pantyhose both for warmth and because they in fact make the wetsuit easier to get on and off.

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  • Scuba divers often wear them as well - they provide extra warmth, can make getting a wetsuit on and off considerably more quick and easy and can guard against jellyfish stings.

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  • Have all divers try racing with swim fins.

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  • Swimmers, divers, surfers, fishermen and marine biologists may experience a jellyfish sting if they swim or wade too close to the animal, or practice improper handling techniques.

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  • In small bands, and by divers ways, they streamed gradually southward and eastward, in a steady flow, throughout 1096.

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  • The philological analysis of Wolf and his successors had raised doubts as to the very existence of Homer, and at one time the main current of scholarly opinion had set strongly in the direction of the belief that the Iliad and the Odyssey were in reality but latter-day collections of divers recitals that had been handed down by word of mouth from one generation to another of bards through ages of illiteracy.

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  • The Romanists therefore were no longer recognized by the state, and were persecuted in divers ways, though the tide afterwards turned in their favour.

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  • As man approached the gods in sacrifice and prayers, so too the gods declared themselves to men by divers signs and tokens, which it was possible to read by the art of Divination (q.v.).

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  • For the facts registered are always more ancient than the register; and much more ancient than such books as make mention of and quote the register, as these books do in divers places."

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  • In 1901 the Supreme Court delivered several judgments in cases arising out of the annexation of Porto Rico, which handled, though they did not fully settle, divers points of novelty and of importance, and still more recently questions of great intricacy affecting the respective legislative rights of the Federal and the state governments have come before it.

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  • Here, on the 25th of October, the commissioners again met; and one of them alone, Lord Zouch, dissented from the verdict by which Mary was found guilty of having, since the 1st of June preceding, compassed and imagined divers matters tending to the destruction of Elizabeth.

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  • Till the end of the 12th century Sicily was the one land where men of divers creeds and tongues could live side by side.

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  • A year later the governor, Abu`l-Khattar, assigned to his troops for settlement divers countries belonging to the p ublic domain.

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  • The leading thesis seems to have been that all the great religions of the world originated from the same supreme source, and that they were all to be regarded as so many divers expressions of one and the same fundamental truth, or "Wisdom Religion," in such form and dress as was best adapted to suit the times and the people for whose spiritual growth and development religious instruction was required.

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  • This may be sufficiently attested by the divers Roman Coins that are digged up here.

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  • The divers were hoping to see some exotic fish, but they were disappointed to only find albacore tuna.

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  • In the curious poem in the Sallier papyrus (II.), written about 1800 B.C., Duan, son of Khertu, expatiates on the effects of divers handicrafts on the workmen as compared with the elevating influences of a literary life.

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  • Whether we regard him as a priest who published poem after poem in praise of an adored mistress, as a plebeian man of letters who conversed on equal terms with kings and princes, as a solitary dedicated to the love of nature, as an amateur diplomatist treating affairs of state with pompous eloquence in missives sent to popes and emperors, or again as a traveller eager for change of scene, ready to climb mountains for the enjoyment of broad prospects over spreading champaigns; in all these divers manifestations of his peculiar genius we trace some contrast with the manners of the, 4th century, some emphatic anticipation of the 16th.

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  • Under his sister's care the young emperor was trained in divers accomplishments which won him the name of Calligraphes ("the Penman"), but grew up into a weak though amiable character.

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