slack water

Slack water was due in an hour and a half.

It's slack water now, we can make our landing easy.

It was still an hour and a half before the time of slack water, too early yet for a diver to go down.

With two minutes of slack water remaining, we're off, steering toward Manhattan.

"It would have to be at slack water, around eleven tonight.

One could not go through at slack water on the oars, for the way was too narrow.

As the tide rises again there is a period of slack water when the levels are the same on either side.

The best time for small craft to enter the Rip is at slack water.

The slack water in her was as dangerous as explosives.

In dead slack water, you can always be sure."

Slack water would not come until early morning.

Slack water may also be misused to refer to a process in caves.

Their boat drifted past the patrol, just beyond the aura of light and in slack water.

"There is a bit of slack water in the angle of the cliff."

"Tell your mother to move the barge," Ransom called across the interval of slack water.

They were splashing together in the slack water of the river at the edge of the main current.

A final lurch as slack water shifted in the holds, then the plunge.

Before making the final effort, Dorian waited until slack water was at the bottom of the ebb.

This allowed approximately four hours until slack water.

Slack water usually occurs near high water and low water.

Lou beached two 3-pound blues before slack water arrived and we departed.

"You'll have about two hours of slack water.

You'd need a flat calm and slack water to put down a diver to that depth."

That was to be expected; blues are seldom taken during slack water at that location.

Ice sheets typically form along the shoreline and in slack water bays, where the lake is not as deep.