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  Anegada History and Highlights
Anegada is often referred to as the sunken island, and can be toured in a day.
Many moons ago the Anegada Passage was considered the entrance to the Caribbean, and the protected waters of The Channel attracted merchantmen and pirates alike.
Anegada lobster, caught in pots, are famous throughout the islands.
www.doubledbvi.com /anegada.htm   (310 words)

  
 * Passage - (Boating): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A sailboat may not hamper the safe passage of a powerboat that can navigate only inside a narrow channel, such as tugboats, barges and large vessels in the dredged channel of Union Bay...
An overtaking yacht shall not, however, be justified in attempting to establish an overlap, and thus force a passage between the leading yacht and the mark, after the latter yacht has altered her helm for the purpose of rounding...
A narrow portable platform used as a passage, by persons boarding or disembarking a vessel moored alongside a pier or quay.
www.mimihu.com /boating/passage.html   (594 words)

  
 Anegada--the Drowned Island in the BVI
Anegada is "guarded" by the famous Horseshoe Reef which, at eighteen miles long, is one of the world's largest coral reefs.
The Anegada habitat is perfect for a wide variety of shore birds, especially the elegant Roseate Flamingos, which have been restored to the island's massive salt ponds on the western half of the island.
Anegada's west end beaches and related sea grass communities from Pomato Point to Cow Wreck Bay are important as well to the hawksbill turtle.
www.b-v-i.com /Anegada/default.htm   (4255 words)

  
 Caribbean Sailing School
The sail training in the USVI is to prepare the participant for the rigorous sail across the Anegada Passage.
The night offshore sail transiting the Anegada Passage is demanding and may be rigorous.
The offshore night passage will be conducted when weather conditions are favorable for both the departure and the return.
caribbean.sailingschool.com   (409 words)

  
 Britische Jungferninseln
Mit Ausnahme von Anegada sind die 16 bewohnten und rund 40 unbewohnten Eilande der Britischen Jungferninseln aus vulkanischem und aus Sedimentgestein aufgebaut.
Anegada, 34 Quadratkilometer gross und von etwa 200 Personen bewohnt, liegt 60 Kilometer von den anderen Britischen Jungferninseln entfernt.
Besonders beim Korallenriff von Anegada finden Taucher und Taucherinnen eine Unterwasserwelt von grossartiger Formen- und Farbenpracht sowie eine Fülle von Schiffswracks aus allen Epochen, in denen noch allerlei Schätze lagern sollen.
www.markuskappeler.ch /tex/texs/jungferninseln.html   (2603 words)

  
 Seabeam, GLORIA, and Seismic Data from Anegada Passage
The Anegada Passage (sensu lato) includes several basins and ridges from the Southeast of Puerto Rico to the corner of the Virgin Islands Platform.
As shown by the seismic activity main wrench motion occurs along the north slope of Virgin Islands Basin and through Anegada Passage.
A branching of the main fault transmits the transtensional motion to St Croix Basin.
pubs.usgs.gov /of/of00-006/htm/anegada.htm   (373 words)

  
 2.10 The Anegada Climate Tracers Study: A small climate change study in an unlikely place with potentially big payoffs ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Anegada Climate Tracers Study (ACTS) has been conducted successfully by the University of the Virgin Islands since 1995 and has returned useful oceanographic data while enhancing local scientific capabilities and creating opportunities for undergraduate science students.
ACTS was initially dedicated to establish the temporal and spatial variability of the character and magnitude of key climatically significant tracers in the water exchanged in a critical passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
At the ACTS hydrographic station in the Anegada Passage, current, velocity, salinity, dissolved oxygen and temperature are measured electronically.
ams.confex.com /ams/annual2002/techprogram/paper_25832.htm   (366 words)

  
 Anegada Passage --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The passage is one of the two through which subsurface water enters the Caribbean (the other being the…
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In 1602 the company sent George Weymouth to find a passage through the continent to the Pacific Ocean, but he did not sail beyond Labrador.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9007521   (586 words)

  
 Ocean Sailing Academy, sailing school America's best bareboat cruising charter and offshore sailing school. U.S. ...
The coastal passage curriculum provides the opportunity to experience overnight sailing as well as nighttime landfall, allowing students to take the next step toward extended ocean passage making.
Students are involved in every aspect coastal passage making including pre-departure preparation, two overnight passages, nighttime landfall, making port via anchor or mooring ball and ample time to enjoy the fruits of this Caribbean paradise.
Qualified students graduate with Coastal Passage Making Captaining or First Mate certification and are prepared to make future passages on their own.
www.oceansail.com /exploring_the_caribbean.htm   (354 words)

  
 circ25   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The passages between the islands is even shallower.
The deepest passage between islands is the Anegada Passage, which is less than 2000m deep.
Antarctic Bottom Water cannot enter the Caribbean because the Passage is too shallow.
faculty.uvi.edu /users/sratchf/SSEA_ocean/files/circulation/circ25.htm   (56 words)

  
 Welcome to Puerto Rico! Glossary
These sills are located below the Anegada Passage, which runs between the Virgin Islands and the Lesser Antilles, and the Windward Passage, which runs between Cuba and Hispaniola.
The sill depth of the Anegada Passage is between 6,400 and 7,700 feet (1,950 and 2,350 m); the sill depth of the Windward Passage is from 5,250 to 5,350 feet (1,600 to 1,630m).
The passage is one of the main shipping routes to the Panama Canal.
welcome.topuertorico.org /glossary/index.shtml   (2467 words)

  
 Will They Make It To Cuba?
there is a powerful light on the island and we want to sight it just before dawn tomorrow to confirm our position as we go into the anegada passage and turn west for the bvi's.
we're stuck in the anegada passage, wide open to the atlantic with growing west seas running over the 25' or more northerly swells.
we fight our way south then north, gatting nowhere fast with cheery old anegada and its reefs at one end and various unpleasantness if we get blown too far east at the other.
www.therefrigerator.net /trippinout/boat/boatmar0.html   (3714 words)

  
 Bickerstaff's Books, Maps &c. -- Virgin Islands
Anegada with its Reefs by R. Schomburgh (sic).
Presumably this is one of the earliest separate maps of Anegada.
Numerous sounding are presented, and many passages, reefs and banks are located on this detailed navigational chart.
pws.prserv.net /usinet.bicks/bicks-vi.html   (1032 words)

  
 jolt.co.uk public forums - Closing of Anegada Passage.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Since two days ago the Empire has laid claim to the entire passage and is currently enforcing that right by force, DAF spokespersons have confirmed that large minefields will be laid and patrols will ensure that no navel vessels will use the passage.
There has been a general warning to all traffic to avoid the Anegada passage, any ship or aircraft that is not supposed to be there will either be shot, sunk or impounded by the Empire of Dumpsterdam and there will be no compensations.
If its in the passage and it isn't supposed to be there, where gona sink it.
forums.jolt.co.uk /showthread.php?t=376356   (1569 words)

  
 Exploring the Virgin Islands - SailRiders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The north side of Anegada is known to have large breaking swells that would please any serious wave sailor...
After having spent a week in Bitter End with a quick visit to Anegada's Horseshoe Reef, we sailed back to the marina in Spanish Town for some grocery shopping and to take a few pictures of the Club Med I sailboat that was passing by.
The Club Med is one of the largest cruiseliner- sailboats in the world that spends winters in the Caribbean and summers in French Polynesia.
www.sailriders.com /ventures/janfeb/virginislands.html   (1242 words)

  
 Sombrero Island - Sombrero Information Services Ltd
It is a 95 acre rock, one mile long and a quarter mile wide, 38 miles from Anguilla and separated from the mainland by the Dog and Prickly Pear Passage.
The relatively flat top of the rock is 40 feet above the surface of the water yet the treacherous northern rollers are known to wash over the entire island even on relatively calm days.
This important landmark (which I understand is soon to be automated), has appeared on St.Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla stamps in 1954 and again in 1963.
www.sombrero.ai /island.htm   (871 words)

  
 Shipwreck Story
The B.V.I.'s island of Anegada is part of that mystique.
Its low-lying profile and treacherous Horseshoe Reef extend 17 miles into the Anegada Passage, one of the major trade routes of the Caribbean.
Even today, Anegada and its reef are off-limits to all but the most experienced sailors.
bviwelcome.com /articles/shipwrk/index.html   (1655 words)

  
 Anegada Adventure with Helen and Steve   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
With the mirror-like stillness of the water, we could see the reef clearly from the plane as we approached from the dark blue waters of the Anegada Passage.
The sandy patches on the island side of the reef were full of large mating nurse sharks side by side.
We didn’t get a chance to take photos that day and being that we had such a good experience and being that it was another flat calm day, we decided to share our experience with our friends Steve and Helen.
www.stjohnbeachguide.com /anegada_adventure.htm   (511 words)

  
 Earthquake Hazards Program: Earthquake History of Puerto Rico
On November 18, 1867, 20 days after the Island was devastated by Hurricane San Narciso, a strong earthquake occurred with an approximate magnitude of 7.5 on the Richter Scale.
The epicenter was located in the Anegada Passage, between Puerto Rico and St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
The earthquake produced a tsunami that ran inland almost 150 meters (490 feet) in the low parts of the coast of Yabucoa.
neic.usgs.gov /neis/states/puerto_rico/puerto_rico_history.html   (397 words)

  
 Caribbean facts from Caribbean-Search.com
Nevis Peak sits in the center of its almost circular namesake island and its ball shape complements that of its sister island.
Important location along the Mona Passage - a key shipping lane to the Panama Canal; San Juan is one of the biggest and best natural harbors in the Caribbean; many small rivers and high central mountains ensure land is well watered; south coast relatively dry; fertile coastal plain belt in north.
Important location along the Anegada Passage - a key shipping lane for the Panama Canal; Saint Thomas has one of the best natural deepwater harbors in the Caribbean.
www.caribbean-search.com /fastfacts.cfm   (1075 words)

  
 emailsclaude
As it strengthened we had to head further and further South which was too early in the passage.
Lately we have had to do this at every island we've been to even if two in a row are protectorates of the same country in addition each has its own procedures and paperwork, what fun.
Our next passage was to be a longer one of 35 miles to Montserrat where we hoped not to get covered in ash from the still active Soufrieres volcano.
www.aliseeiii.homestead.com /emailsclaude.html   (14549 words)

  
 Closing of Anegada Passage. [Archive] - jolt.co.uk public forums
Hello, I’m Miranda Marcs and your watching DNS international, we bring you a newsflash from the Caribbean where Dumpsterdanian naval forces alongside Right Wing Collective units have started the reinforcement of the Anegada passage between Dumpsterdanian held Netherlands Antilles as far as the Virgin Islands.
Today a Jamaican freighter was sunk by combined effort of Dumpsterdanian JackRabbit and Guild Harrier ground attack aircraft in the middle of the Anegada pass.
13.01 Guild Harriers and the DRN Reranderas responded to a violating of the passage near the Virgin Island, the four speedboats running the passage where not willing to stop and after having a run-in with one of the minefields the DRN Reranderas forced the last remaining boat to stop.
forums.jolt.co.uk /archive/index.php/t-376356.html   (1560 words)

  
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Celestial sight reduction and running fix techniques using the sun are continuous throughout the week.
In the Caribbean we pass offshore at night through the Anegada Passage to the USVI.
Our route in Maine for the Combined Night/Offshore Course remains within the confines of the Witch Rock buoy off Portland, the Cashius Ledge buoy 100 miles offshore, the Mt. Desert buoy off Bar Harbor, and the Cape Sable buoy off Nova Scotia.Most days we are underway to our next port by 1130.
www.sailingschool.com /expect.htm   (530 words)

  
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 anegada passage - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
We found one dictionary with English definitions that includes the word anegada passage:
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Anegada Passage : Columbia Gazetteer of North America [home, info]
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 YachtFiona.com - Yacht Fiona, Sailing, Sail, World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After a few minor repairs and refuelling we pushed off early in the New Year for a crossing of the Anegada Passage to the Britsh Virgin Islands.
We left Puerto Rico from Boqueron and crossed the Mona Passage to Samana in the Dominican Republic.
In our case Teresa wanted to visit a professor she was acquainted with at the University of Santiago and she agreed to sponsor FIONA's trip.
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 Beef Island Passage
Beef Island passage, between Beef Island and Litttle Camanoe, eastern end (CP01)
Beef Island passage, 3rd intermediate point moving from east to west (CP04)
Beef Island passage, between Beef Island and Litttle Camanoe, western end (CP13)
www.nwmangum.com /BeefIslandPassage.html   (251 words)

  
 PLATES Caribbean Bibliography
Neotectonics to the south of the Greater Antilles, collision (Beata Ridge, Presquile de Bahoruco); subduction (Muertos Trench); transtension (Anegada Passage) (Néotectonique au sud des Grandes Antilles, collision (ride de Beata, Presqu'ile de Bahoruco); subduction (fosse de Muertos); transtension (passage d'Anegada)).
Greater Antilles, Beata Ridge, Muertos Trench, Anegada Passage, tectonic.
Lesser Antilles, Lesser Antilles, Virgin Islands, Anegada, structure, tectonic, geomorphology, geophysics, remote sensing.
www.ig.utexas.edu /research/projects/plates/biblio/carib/j.htm   (3259 words)

  
 Semester at Sea 2002
The "Christmas Winds" are definitely here and we were glad not to be tacking against them as they were blowing a good 30 knots.
We ducked in between the islands in the Anegada Passage and came back on the outside one morning between St. Lucia and St. Vincent which we could easily recognize.
On the outside of the islands with nothing between us and Africa the winds (a steady 35 k with higher gusts) and seas (9-15 ft) picked up considerably.
www.dahlfin.com /dahlfin/sematsea.html   (8737 words)

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