At around 6pm the tide began to turn; seeking to Beachy Head two years before, Tourville had his ships anchor at the end of slack water, with their sails still set.
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At North's Island, from the Susquehanna, they were towed by a water powered continuous rope to the north side of the river across a slack water pool formed by a dam.
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The Rideau Canal was recognized as the best preserved example of a slack water canal in North America demonstrating the use of European slackwater technology in North America on a large scale.
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Crossing into Warren County, the river veers northward along a meandering route, passing under State Route 288 ( Hennessee Bridge Road ) as it enters the slack waters of Great Falls Lake.
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This flooding lasted for a period of 4 7 days . In the relatively calm arms of the lake, the slack waters were thick with suspended materials eroded from the scablands above.
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When diving in tidal waters at the end of slack water, the trapeze may be released from the diving shot to drift in the current as the divers make their decompression stops.
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Welling said that if the dozen ships docking on the East River had missed slack water, they would have had to wait several hours for the tide to shift and then use tug boats.
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The island is an excellent dive site with items of interest being the wreck of the " Nordhuk " and the sheets of multi-coloured jewel anemones, although the tidal currents are strong outside of slack water.
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The 1850s and 1860s were a prosperous time in the Greensboro area partially due to a 1856 extension of the slack water system of locks and dams on the Monongahela River allowing easier travel to and from Pittsburgh.
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We could have waited through the hour or so of slack water until the tide began to drop, but that would have been, I thought, too much for my friends wrisen at dawn to drive down from New Hampshire.
