"Tidal current" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a nervous and none too competent Tagalog captain, maneuvered in the six-mile tidal current which swept west through the Straits making Zamboanga a nightmare to all the native skippers who called at that port. Crab-like, she crawled obliquely to within a few hundred feet of the low-lying town, then the screw churned up ...
— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson
... sets in—especially on some foreign shores—and there was nothing to assure them that the seaboard of the Saaera was not beset by the most treacherous of tides. On the contrary, it was just this—a tidal current—that had forced their vessel among the breakers, causing them to become ...
— The Boy Slaves • Mayne Reid |
