Protected by air cover, she nosed against a reef, maintained her position with both propellers, and sent a boat ashore through breaking surf.

Once the view at the ocean end of Venice's streets was a sweep of sand and breaking surf.

For your first attempts you should not venture into breaking surf but instead practise 'hopping' off wind-blown chop.

However breaking surf prevented their landing party from getting ashore.

When it emerged again, they were within a mile of the beach, and could hear the sound of waves, then the crash of breaking surf.

The river itself seemed to heave from its bed with a roar like breaking surf.

He looked toward the nearest land, an island just over three miles away; he could just make out the line of breaking surf.

Shackleton later wrote: "We felt our boat lifted and flung forward like a cork in breaking surf".

Shifts of men trudged burdens through breaking surf.

The white curves of breaking surf were clear now.