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One of the piles of debris left over after demolition of the Bay Meadows racetrack. Taken from a passing Caltrain train in March 2009.. After the track failed to acquire a two-year extension of the deadline to replace its dirt oval with an artificial surface for the safety of the horses from the California Horse Racing Board, it was announced that Bay Meadows intended to close November 4, 2006 ...
Recurrent airway obstruction, also known as broken wind, heaves, wind-broke horse, or sometimes by the term usually reserved for humans, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or disorder (COPD) – it is a respiratory disease or chronic condition of horses involving an allergic bronchitis characterised by wheezing, coughing and laboured breathing.
Panorama at the mouth of Seal Slough (2022); road bridges are in the background and construction cranes on the left are being used during the reconstruction of the city wastewater treatment plant. According to the City of San Mateo, Seal Slough properly refers to just the outlet, where it experiences a tidal exchange with San Francisco Bay on ...
A film based on her life, Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken, was released in 1991 and was based on her memoir A Girl and Five Brave Horses. [3] In Lake George, New York, the Magic Forest theme park hosted a diving horse feature beginning in 1977, originally featuring a horse named Rex, later replaced by a gelding named Lightning. The manager stated ...
Doing it Right: The Fundamentals of Better Diving. Global Underwater Explorers. ISBN 0-9713267-0-3. Steven M. Barsky (2007). Diving in High-Risk Environments (4th ed.). Hammerhead Press, Ventura, CA. ISBN 978-0-9674305-7-7. NOAA Diving Manual (4th ed.). CD-ROM prepared and distributed by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS)in ...
The disorders are caused by breathing gas at the high pressures encountered at the depth of the water and divers will often breathe a gas mixture different from air to mitigate these effects. Nitrox , which contains more oxygen and less nitrogen , is commonly used as a breathing gas to reduce the risk of decompression sickness at recreational ...
San Mateo Creek, San Andreas Creek, Adobe Gulch, Laguna Creek, Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct: Primary outflows: San Mateo Creek: Catchment area: 29.4 sq mi (76 km 2) Basin countries: United States: Managing agency: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission: Surface area: 1,323 acres (535 ha) Water volume: 57,910 acre⋅ft (71,430,000 m 3) Surface ...
Training for Olympic diving competition requires 10-meter diving facilities, which are scant in some parts of the world. For example, the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, built in 1979 as a YMCA facility, is one of only two Olympic-sized pools in Wisconsin that can host large events, and it is the only facility in the southeast Wisconsin region ...