seawater

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That lasted until March, when the water was so cold, my face went numb and I started swallowing seawater because I couldn’t tell my mouth was open.

From The Wall Street Journal

Opened in 1971, it was the second Magnox power station in Wales after Trawsfynydd came online six years earlier, with seawater an ideal coolant due to its location on Anglesey's northern coast.

From BBC

Despite working for two weeks - baiting the ocean, taking samples of seawater to search for shark DNA and using underwater cameras - the researchers did not manage to find any animals to tag.

From BBC

The idea was that cold Scottish seawater would improve the efficiency of air-based cooling systems inside the device.

From BBC

Researchers examined lava material drilled from deep below the South Atlantic Ocean to measure how much CO2 becomes incorporated into these rocks through interactions between seawater and the cooling volcanic material.

From Science Daily