1.   On a crooked spit of land, soldiers in helmets cradled machine guns and scanned the pounding seas.

2.   He attributed the pounding seas to the El Nino water current, which has warmed the Pacific ocean and caused water turbulence to increase.

3.   His wife and children waded into the water to greet him as he struggled out of the pounding sea with television helicopters hovering overhead.

4.   Officials are worried that the Japanese-owned log carrier Jody F Millennium will break up under pounding seas spilling thousands of barrels of fuel oil onto pristine beaches.