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	Neighbourhood of The Bight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Beachfront lots do well exceed $1,500,000 per acre, lots near the beach begin at $300,000 and ridge lots with north shore views are at least $260,000 when available.
		Coral Gardens is a resort on the Bight at the end of
		October 2005 in the area of The Bight...
	www.turksandcaicosrealestatebestbuys.com /bight.html (114 words)

	bight - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Bight, in geography, a wide bay formed by a bend or curve in a shoreline.
		Benin, Bight of, bay in West Africa, forming the western part of the Gulf of Guinea.
		The Bight of Benin extends from the mouth of the Volta River to...
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=bight (130 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for bight
		The New York bight, for example, is the curve in the coast described by the southern shore of Long Island and the eastern shore of New Jersey.
		Biafra, Bight of, eastern bay of the Gulf of Guinea, W Africa.
		The bight was an important area for slave trading between the 16th and 19th cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=bight (678 words)

	Bight stop mechanism for sewing machines - Patent 4048932
		The LSI 44 may also include a latch whereby the bight information may be held for timed release to the bight servo system at a time appropriate to the operation of the needle jogging mechanism in the stitching operation.
		The output from the bight signal control amplifier 62 is also connected by way of line 70 to FET 72 of the enhancement type, having its gate connected by gate line 74 to the LSI 44.
		Thus, the gain of the bight signal control amplifier 62 may be controlled during pattern stitching or straight stitching through manual adjustment of the manual bight control rheostat 78.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4048932.html (3736 words)

	Bight - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Bight, (from Old English byht), in geography, a wide bay formed by a bend or curve in a shoreline.
		Bonny, Bight of, also Bight of Biafra, bay of the Atlantic Ocean, western Africa, in the eastern part of the Gulf of Guinea, about 640 km (400 mi)...
		Benin, Bight of, bay of the Atlantic Ocean, western Africa, about 640 km (400 mi) wide along a baseline from Cape St Paul, Ghana, in the west to the...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Bight.html (125 words)

	The Southern California Bight: Ecological Impacts due to
		The Bight is being polluted by anthropogenic means, mainly in the form of non-point pollution from all the various municipal and industrial waste as well as runoff from various sources.
		The Southern California Bight and its valuable ecosystems are being threatened by this pollution from rapid population growth, industrial growth, and lack of stringent environmental protection.
		In this research of the Southern California Bight the overall issue is to examine the anthropogenic or human made impacts of pollution, primarily non-point source pollution from municipal wastewater treatment facilities.
	darwin.bio.uci.edu /~sustain/suscoasts/jsung.html (4246 words)

	Garinagu communities in Belize, Seine Bight History - Online Garifuna Info Service
		Seine Bight village is located about 5 miles north of the village of Placencia and stretches about four miles along the Placencia Peninsula.
		Bight originates from the type of net, called a seine, used by the fishermen that used the area for drying and salting their catch and bight meaning a depression in the coastal line.
		Seine Bight is small (population of approximately 826 people), so visitors are easily able to meet and talk with Village residents and elders.
	www.seinebight.com /g2k/sb_history.htm (630 words)

	Bight Kicker Jigs
		Bight Kicker Jigs are manufactured in 2 sizes and each size is available in 2 different weights.
		The Bight Kicker 15-Light is available with with a 2/0 Treble Hook, Fixed Single Hook or a Single Siwash Hook and rigged with welded stainless steel rings.
		The Bight Kicker 15-Heavy is available with a 2/0 Treble Hook or a Single Siwash Hook and rigged with welded stainless steel rings.
	www.offshorepursuits.com /tackle/bight_kicker.aspx (618 words)

	For school projects: About the Great Australian Bight
		The Great Australian Bight is a very large bight (or bend in the coast that forms an open bay) on the southern edge of the Australian continent.
		There are also many other species in the Bight that are important as food for humans, especially southern rock lobster, king crab, abalone, school shark, gummy shark, deepwater flathead, Bight redfish and orange roughy.
		In fact, the Great Australian Bight has some of the highest levels of marine diversity (which means the variety of plants and animals) and endemism (which means "occurring nowhere else in the world") in Australia.
	www.deh.gov.au /coasts/mpa/gab/about.html (2035 words)

	Geoscience Australia - Bight Basin
		The Jurassic-Cretaceous Bight Basin is a large, mainly offshore basin that extends along the southern Australian margin, from the southern tip of Western Australia, across the Great Australian Bight to the western tip of Kangaroo Island.
		The Bight Basin is overlain unconformably by the dominantly cool-water carbonates of the Cainozoic Eucla Basin.
		To the south, the uppermost sequences of the Bight Basin onlap highly extended continental crust and rocks of the continent-ocean transition on the abyssal plain between Australia and Antarctica.
	www.ga.gov.au /oceans/sa_bight.jsp (361 words)

	Head of the Bight - Nullarbor Travel Guide Australia
		The Head of Bight is located 78 kilometres west of Yalata and 20 kilometres to the east of Nullarbor Roadhouse.
		The Head of Bight is approached by a sealed road and attached to the car park is a comfortable undercover picnic area for travellers.
		The Head of Bight picnic area also doubles as an education facility with a number of display boards displaying the habits, behaviours and other scientific curiosities relating to the Southern Right Whale.
	www.nullarbornet.com.au /towns/headBight.html (612 words)

	Bowline on a Bight
		The Bowline on a Bight is good parallel loop knot to use when you need hand loops to tug on the rope to get it unstuck from a vine-choked branch.
		Grasp the end of the bight and bring it toward you and down across the bottom of the loop.
		Pull on the lower loop to pull the end of the bight snug against the original loop.
	www.buechelfire.com /Bowline_Bight.htm (218 words)

	Bight Ranks/Status Codes
		Many heavily exploited estuarine and marine finfish and shellfish species, even though still fairly abundant in the Bight, are also included here, particularly those which were historically more widespread or abundant but are now substantially reduced in numbers of individuals or local populations in the Bight and remain vulnerable to continued exploitation.
		BW5 Species is demonstrably secure throughout the Bight, though it may be quite rare or local in parts of the Bight, especially at the periphery of the species' range in the Bight.
		The species is generally determined to be common to abundant (S4S5 or S5) by both states in which it occurs, including within the Bight, and is in no danger of extirpation in either state portion of the watershed or in the open marine waters of the Bight.
	training.fws.gov /library/pubs5/web_link/text/ec_app1.htm (2466 words)

	bight — FactMonster.com
		Bight of Biafra - Biafra, Bight of, eastern bay of the Gulf of Guinea, W Africa.
		Bight of Benin - Benin, Bight of, northern arm of the Gulf of Guinea, c.550 mi (885 km) wide, W Africa, between Cape...
		The bight is the bend or doubled part of a rope,...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0807529.html (162 words)

	Bight Interactive - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Bight Games is an innovative developer of mobile games.
		Bight's games are being distributed to mobile operators and subscribers around the world.
		A five minute television spot on the wonderful world of Bight Interactive Inc. Including a...
	www.bightinteractive.com (101 words)

	Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters)
		The Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Commonwealth Waters) is in the Great Australian Bight stretching from 200 km west of Ceduna in South Australia following the coast to the Western Australian border.
		To the west of the Head of Bight is the Benthic Protection Zone, a 20 nautical mile-wide representative strip of the ocean floor extending 200 nautical miles from the edge of the State Park (at three nautical miles) directly south to the edge of the Exclusive Economic Zone of Australia.
		This area aims to protect a sample of the unique and diverse plants and animals that live on, and are associated with, the ocean floor.
	www.deh.gov.au /coasts/mpa/gab (355 words)

	Bowline on a Bight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The Bowline on a Bight is used to make a a pair of fixed-size loops in a line.
		This knot can be used to make an emergency bowswain's chair to go up the mast or bring an injured person aboard, or serve as a towing bridle.
		Now, open the bight where the line is doubled an pull the main doubled loop through.
	www.dirauxwest.org /knots/bow_bight.htm (129 words)

	AUSTRALIAN BIGHT SEAFOOD PTY LTD Processors & Exporters of Seafood - Prawns, Lobster & Tuna
		Australian Bight Seafood was one of the first companies in the Southern Hemisphere to process and freeze tuna for the ultra low FROZEN sashimi market, using portable freezing facilities.
		When we first became aware of this method of freezing in 1999, expansion and redesign of our processing operations was quickly and efficiently undertaken, proving once again our ability to adapt and diversify to market demands.
		BIGHT undertakes contract processing of fresh wildcatch tuna for several Port Lincoln based companies.
	www.bight.com.au /tuna.htm (640 words)

	Norman Island in the British Virgin Islands
		It was a large, airy place, with a little spring and a pool of clear water, overhung with ferns.
		The Bight is one of the most protected anchorages in the region although Soldier Bay, Benures Bay and Money Bay provide secluded anchorages given the right conditions.
		Treasure Point, at the southern entrance to The Bight, comprises a rocky headland along which the famous caves can be found at the base of the cliffs allowing access to snorkelers.
	www.normanisland.com /info.htm (389 words)

	"Treasure Island" in the British Virgin Islands
		Likewise, the Willie T and Pirates Bight, both of which are in the Bight, have dinghy docks.
		An alternative anchorage from The Bight, Benures Bay is a good overnight anchorage that is protected when the wind is from the south.
		On the other side of the island from The Bight, there is a world apart of unspoiled, rugged beauty in a primitive setting of cliffs and surf.
	www.b-v-i.com /mappage.htm (2050 words)

	bight - definition by dict.die.net
		bight n 1: a loop in a rope 2: a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) 3: a broad bay formed by an indentation (a bight) in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin" 4: the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) v : fasten with a bight
		A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
		(Geog.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
	dict.die.net /bight (123 words)

	CSI Activities (Portland Bight, Jamaica)
		In geographical terms, a "bight" is a body of water between two headlands, and strictly speaking, Portland Bight refers just to the body of water between the Hellshire Hills (to the west of Kingston) and Portland Ridge (the part of Jamaica which sticks out to the south).
		The Portland Bight Protected Area is rich in wildlife and natural areas; 41% of the land area is taken up with the dry limestone forests of Hellshire, Portland Ridge and Braziletto Mountain, rated as the largest relatively intact forests of that type left in Central America and the Caribbean (81 sq.
		These wetlands together with extensive sea-grass beds in the waters of the Bight provide probably the largest nursery area for fish, crustaceans and molluscs on the island and support 4,000 of Jamaica’s 16,000 fishers and their families.
	www.unesco.org /csi/act/jamaica/jamai1.htm (926 words)

	Totem Bight State Historical Park
		By using Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) funds to hire skilled carvers from among the older Natives, two things took place: young artisans learned the art of carving totem poles, and totems which had been left to rot in the woods were either repaired or duplicated.
		At statehood, in 1959, title to the land passed from the federal government to the State of Alaska, and the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.
		While Totem Bight is generally considered Tlingit country, you will find both Tlingit and Haida myths and legends enshrined here.
	www.dnr.state.ak.us /parks/units/totembgh.htm (1284 words)

	Garinagu in Seine Bight Village believe that unhappy ancestral spirits cause bad things to happen to people, such as ...
		Seine Bight Village, Land of Garinagu and the intelligent garifuna of Belize.
		Seine Bight is a Garifuna village, with a population of about 600.
		The fishing village of Point Placencia and Seine Bight, as we now know them, were settled in the early to mid 19th century.
	caribs.tripod.com /caribs1.htm (588 words)

	NURP\|\|Mid-Atlantic Bight National Undersea Research Center
		The Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB) National Undersea Research Center, administered by the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS) at Rutgers University and the Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook University was established in 1992 following a regional competition.
		Geographically, the MAB Center supports research in waters of the Mid-Atlantic Region (New York Bight south of Long Island to and including the Chesapeake Bay).
		The primary goal of the MAB Center is to improve our knowledge of the processes governing change and stability in the Mid-Atlantic Region at spatial and temporal scale not attainable with conventional oceanographic techniques.
	marine.rutgers.edu /nurp/mabnurc.html (327 words)

	Seine Bight, Belize
		The traditional Garifuna village of Seine Bight is located on the Placencia Peninsula.
		Fairly isolated until the 1980s when a road was built to the peninsula, the Garifuna (mixed African and Indian heritage) culture of the village has survived and prospered.
		Seine Bight is beginning to build a tourist infrastructure in order to welcome the overflow of visitors wanting to visit the area.
	www.planetware.com /belize/seine-bight-biz-st-sb.htm (133 words)

	Sustaining the Southern California Bight Today for Tomorrow
		By changing the environment that they live in through pollution and increasing their population in an upward, exponential trend, humans are playing a loosing poker game and do not even know it because they do not know how to read their cards and are ignorant of the rules of the game.
		A sustainable Southern California Bight would be one in which humans would continue to live and thrive and yet not disturb the ecosystems around them that support human life.
		Cleaning up the Southern California Bight will take a considerable amount of education, money, and effort but in the long run it will all be worth it so that our shimmering coast and ocean will once again be as great as it used to be.
	darwin.bio.uci.edu /~sustain/suscoasts/nwilliams.html (4910 words)

	Bight'98 Benthic Lab Manual
		This document describes laboratory procedures to be followed in the analysis of infaunal samples collected for the Southern California Bight 1998 Regional Marine Monitoring Survey (Bight'98).
		All (and only) taxonomists involved in the Bight 98 survey will be members of the list.
		The procedures for sample re-analysis are based upon those developed and employed in the Southern California Bight Pilot Project (Montagne and Bergen 1997).
	www.sccwrp.org /regional/98bight/benthic/benpln.htm (5204 words)

	BC Parks - Robson Bight (Michael Biggs) Ecological Reserve, British Columbia
		Robson Bight (Michael Biggs) Ecological Reserve, 20 kms south of Telegraph Cove in Johnstone Strait, provides ocean adventures with a sure thing when it comes to whale watching.
		The marine portion of Robson Bight Ecological Reserve was established in 1982 in recognition of the importance of this area to killer whales.
		Robson Bight (Michael Bigg) Ecological Reserve is located 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Port McNeill, on the northeastern shore of Vancouver Island, and incorporates Mt. Derby, Mt. Sir John and the Tsitika Mountain.
	www.britishcolumbia.com /ParksAndTrails/Parks/details/?ID=349 (742 words)

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