Attempts to rescue all the animals in a mass stranding by towing them out to sea have almost always been frustrating because the animals usually swim repeatedly back onto the beach.
Accurate determination of the pilot whale species involved in the stranding may require museum preparation of the skull and detailed examination of its characteristics.
Identifying the Animal Cetaceans may be found during or shortly after the stranding or many months later, when the carcass is bloated or rotted nearly beyond recognition.
Individually stranded cetaceans rarely survive, even if they are found soon after stranding and transported to adequate holding facilities.
Based on stranding records, however, the following can be stated.
In general, stranding reports suggest that goosebeaked whales are sparsely but widely distributed in nonpolar latitudes.
Appendix E lists institutions to be contacted in the event of a cetacean stranding or for information.
The first rule of action upon stranding is to at once lower all sail.
The most dangerous stranding is with a strong in-running tide and a stern swell.
If a boat is pierced in her head or tail you may be able to trim the leak out, or save her from sinking by stranding and jacking the leaky end up, but if she is pierced amidships you cannot get at the hole unless you haul completely out.
It was amongst the outlying shoals of this stretch that the yacht had gone ashore and the events consequent upon her stranding took place.
For the first time since the stranding on the coast d'Alcacer's heart sank within him.
This accident of stranding upon a deserted coast was annoying as a loss of time.
He believed that even she herself would never know; but his grave curiosity was satisfied by the observation of her mental state, and he was not sorry that the stranding of the yacht prolonged his opportunity.
It upset all their little notions of what a stranding means, hereabouts.
You stranding just on that spot of the whole coast was my bad luck.
Meanwhile news of the stranding of the steamer had been sent to the lifeboat stations at Brighstone Grange and Brooke, and these lifeboats at once put off and made for the scene of the disaster with all speed.
Notwithstanding the successful result of the efforts made for her rescue, the stranding of the 'Great Britain' in Dundrum Bay led to the ruin of the Company; and she was some time afterwards sold to Messrs.
It may be answered that, if we conceive the till and its boulders to have been drifted to their present place by ice, the lateral pressure may have been supplied by the stranding of ice-islands.
That is probable enough; they all end by stranding here.
And the old accountant was even aware that the young scamp, after stranding on the pavement of Paris, had led the vilest of lives there.
One anchor was to be cast to prevent the ship from stranding at low water.
There was no danger of drifting, or of stranding at low tide.
Years ago I was concerned as chief mate in a case of stranding which was not fatal to the ship.
Thus the moment of her stranding takes away from him every excuse for his continued existence.
Its seamen suffer hardships unknown elsewhere, for they have to endure winters of intense cold and heavy gales and they are always in risk of stranding or being driven ashore.
There is pathos, simple and moving, in the stories of shipwreck and stranding on hostile or desert coasts.
This fact is important, as showing how masses of drift ice, when stranding on submarine banks, may exert a lateral pressure capable of bending and dislocating any yielding strata of gravel, sand, or mud.
Apparently the stranding had occurred at the top of high water, and the wrecked craft was now perched upon a jagged ledge of coral.
He will have nothing more to desire, particularly respecting the march in the desert after the stranding of the long-boat.
And at once he made his preparations for stranding the ship.
In the north, at a quarter of a mile from the stranding place, was the mouth of a little river, which could not have been perceived from the offing.
His service ended with the stranding of the Pilgrim.
His mate and steward were of opinion that he was fretting badly about having to leave the old brig; and this had led him to think more than he would have otherwise done of the loss of his boys and the stranding of his vessel.
The stranding of his new command was interpreted as a judgement sent to him for the wrong he had committed in giving way to pride by forsaking the craft that had carried him so many years in safety.
The stranding of the Jesse Carll in 1889, illustrates another of the dangers with which pilots sometimes have to contend.
When Bering exerted his last powers to prevent the stranding of the St. Peter, he struggled for life.
The flour had been lying in leathern sacks for two years, and in the stranding had been saturated with turbid sea water, and hence was very unfit for food.
In Bering's day these coves or rookeries contained a fauna entirely unmolested by human greed and love of chase, developed according to nature's own laws, for which reason great scientific interest attaches to the stranding of the St. Peter.
The only chart on board for this locality was a general chart of the Bay of Biscay, and the stranding was due to the master's mistaking one buoy for another.
But in one respect we had had the advantage, and that was in the version Davies had given of his stranding on the Hohenhörn.
Something heard I like the stranding Of a shattered wreck.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stranding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
