Sentences with phrase «emergency lifeboats»

However, given how unstable and debt - ridden fiat currencies are at the moment, it is more likely that digital currencies will serve as emergency lifeboats as the Titanic of government currencies goes down — in other words, far from orderly, very messy, but ultimately life - saving.

When a band of four Somali pirates fails in its bid to take over the container ship, it flees in the ship's emergency lifeboat, taking the eponymous Captain Phillips (Tom Hanks) as a hostage to ransom and drawing down the might of the U.S. Navy's anti-piracy task force operating around the Horn of Africa.

Not exact matches

Taylor survived the dunking by donning an Abercombie & Fitch duck - hunting suit that he had bought to meet just such an emergency and, except for the fact that the damn zipper snagged, he passed a comfortable 12 hours adrift in a lifeboat before being rescued by a passing freighter.

Soyuz also serves as the only «lifeboat» for the ISS crews to return them to Earth in an emergency.

In an emergency, KiraVan is equipped with its own «lifeboat» — a one - of - a-kind diesel motorcycle.

Wide access entrance doors mean it is easy to move around the boat and there are life jackets for all passengers and crew, coupled with eight lifeboats, each with a capacity of 25 passengers, enabling a total evacuation if there is an emergency.