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Consequently we were drifting about on the stream and likely to be swept down by the ebb tide.
That evening, with the ebb tide, the ice slackened, and the order was given to steam ahead.
The ebb tide after noon was against us, and the wind being light, we were making no progress.
The ebb tide, however, was beginning to run and helped her across the shoals.
Flood tide and ebb tide, late dawns and early nights—these will occur whether the closing time is 36, 42, or 48 hours.
The behaviour occurred only with an ebb tide.
At ebb tide, water pressure decreases and water, moved by gravity, flows down.
A pronounced tidal asymmetry with an ebb tide lasting twice as long as the flood tide is characteristic of the area.
Progress southwards was complicated by silt in the water that impeded rowing, the ebb tide in the river, and the misty weather.
What is to happen at the ebb tide to those who came in at the flood?
I contend that there are opportunities for reversing the flow and encouraging the ebb tide.
The strong northerly wind had built up the raging sea so much that it completely discounted the ebb tide.
Those are the ebb tide hours.
I have seen fishing boats rushing out on an ebb tide going at an enormous speed—10 knots, because the tide was already going at four or five knots.
Tradesmen and shopkeepers of all kinds are alarmed because of falling receipts over the counters, and overall there is a general atmosphere of industrial ebb tide.
There was then an ebb tide.
When the tide is coming to the full, when the rising tide is flowing or an ebb tide is racing out, then the great currents run clearly.
Note the tidal bore takes place during the flood tide and never during the ebb tide.
In tidal zones, the current in rivers and streams may reverse on the flood tide before resuming on the ebb tide.
