Sentences with phrase «second narrows channel»

Tankers exiting Vancouver harbor must transit through the shallow Second Narrows channel during «high slack water» — a short tidal window of about 20 minutes that provides loaded tankers with less than two metres of under - keel clearance.

Every few days, tankers freshly laden with crude from Alberta's oil sands squeeze through the shallow Second Narrows channel in Burrard Inlet, make their way through swift currents in the southern Gulf Islands and on towards offshore markets.

• Kinder Morgan plans to dredge Second Narrows channel to allow larger Suezmax tankers that can carry 1 million barrels of crude — four times as much as spilled from the Exxon Valdez.

Not exact matches

With a narrow lead this time around, Brendan Rodgers's side may need to channel the strength of that second - half performance nearly a decade ago, but where are the heroes of Istanbul now?

As illustrated below, Genoa exposed themselves to 1 - v - 1's out wide, but the channels on the flanks were rather narrow in that the touchline functioned as a second defender (1 & 2).

This is university undergraduate degree level fluid dynamics [I came across it in my second year — it's an application of Bernoulli's equation: analogous to the way that river flow speeds up when it goes over rocks on the river floor that effectively narrow the river channel].