Midocean

But even in midocean, I felt that manners mattered and it would be rude to refuse it. ❋ Roz Savage (2009)

The navy had tentatively offered to arrange a midocean rendezvous if they happened to have a ship in my part of the ocean while I was out there. ❋ Roz Savage (2009)

In midocean the ship collided with a sleeping whale. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

Any time the gas gauge on the car dropped below one-half she became as nervous as a fighter pilot sweating out a midocean aerial refueling. ❋ Astronaut Mike Mullane (2006)

Around midday, in midocean, we circle a solitary sea rock called Suanggi. ❋ David Quammen (2004)

When Africa split away from South America about 120 mya due to a possible superplume rising from within the earth, continental drift speeds increased and midocean ridges were lifted in the process. ❋ John Clayton Nils Jansma (2001)

A good layperson's introduction to the coastal geology of the Pacific Northwest, including a discussion of midocean ridges such as Juan de Fuca, can be found in Cycles of Rock and Water by K. A. ❋ Unknown (1999)

We set out, trusting in the blessing of Almighty Allah, and with a favoring breeze and the best conditions we salled from island to island and sea to sea till one day there arose against us a contrary wind and the captain cast out his anchors and brought the ship to a standstill, fearing lest she should founder in midocean. ❋ Naipaul, V.S. (1981)

He was likened to a sea captain who seizes the lifeboats on a distressed ship in midocean and, saving himself and crew, leaves the passengers to the mercies of the angry waves. ❋ William E. Dodd (N/A)

Sometimes the waves are in long windrows, but oftener they are short and choppy like the surface waves of midocean. ❋ Jewett Castello Gilson (N/A)

At length he thought that it was doubtless land, and we were much troubled supposing ourselves in midocean. ❋ Unknown (1920)

The ship was in midocean, and the young guardian, blaming her own inexperience, wept bitterly as preparations went on for the burial. ❋ Unknown (1905)