Barry Docks of leads to the dock basin entrance. The channel has a least depth of , with a depth of at spring tides and at neap tides. At high-water spring tides the depth of water at the entrance to the basin is . At high-water neap tides it is . There are several moorings for yachts and small craft on the west of the tidal basin. The original entrance to the docks is wide, with two wrought-iron gates operated by direct acting hydraulic cylinders. This sea entrance leads into the Basin, (rarely called No.3 dock), that is and covers . At
Poland's Wedding to the Sea a merger of Wielka Wies and Hallerowo. In the early spring of 1945, a number of symbolic Weddings to the Sea took place along the Baltic Sea coast. The most well-known such ceremonies were on March 17, 1945, at the town of Mrzeżyno (Regamünde), and on March 18 at Kołobrzeg (Kolberg). This is what Polish historian Hieronim Kroczynski wrote in his book "Polskie Polskie tradycje morskie 967-1945" ("Polish Naval Traditions 967 - 1945"): "In early 1945, the First Polish Army, formed in the Soviet Union, and subordinated to the Soviet 1st Belorussian Front, reached Pomerania, the ancient land of the