1.   From here I watch a patrol of pelicans skim the ocean surface while waves crash against the rocks.

2.   The discovery of the Titanic, twenty miles below the ocean surface, rekindled interest in the ship.

3.   Once waves have been generated, gravity is the force that drives them in a continual attempt to restore the ocean surface to a flat plain.

4.   An important component in determining the risk of flooding is the distance and time that the wind will flow over the ocean surface.

5.   Anything that can sleep floating on the ocean surface so curled up that its head rests comfortably on its own belly is a cat.

6.   A scant breeze put scarcely a ripple on the ocean surface.

7.   During El Nino, the warm ocean surface sends towers of water vapor rising all along the Equator, he said.

8.   He was an expert in the use of imaging radar to produce an image of the ocean surface and detect processes that affect weather patterns on a continental scale.

9.   Laysan albatrosses, however, feed heavily on squid, which rise to the ocean surface at night.

10.   Once aloft, the platforms would beam back reams of data each day on everything from solar radiation to the growth of plankton beneath ocean surfaces.