Next, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park offers spectacular hiking and, if you are lucky, a chance to watch live lava flow into the sea.

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More importantly, some scientists are concerned that the flow of desalinated water into the sea could disrupt the Gulf Stream, which could change weather patterns.

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At low tide, water would flow from the lagoon into the sea, and from the sea into the lagoon at high tide.

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At 8:20 p.m. on the day of the explosion the pressure data suggest there was a constant flow of sea water being pumped into the drill pipe that was displacing the heavier mud system which was the primary pressure control for the well.

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The flow from the source of the Pearl River, which empties into the South China Sea near Hong Kong and Macau, has been reduced to a trickle from a waterfall.

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