Not exact matches
Now and in the future, Canada's Armed Forces will defend Canada and protect our borders; maintain sovereignty over our Northern
lands and
waters; fight alongside our allies to defend our interests; and respond to
emergencies within Canada and around the world.
With more than 200 locations in North America, Clean Harbors has the manpower, equipment and technical expertise to manage any size environmental
emergency on
land or
water.
We effectively handle any size release, and we provide
emergency response and response readiness for oil and chemical spills on
water and
land.
On
land or in
water, our Field Services teams perform everything from sump and tank pump - outs, to tank cleaning requiring confined space entry and vacuum services, to building or site decontamination, large remediation projects and
emergency response.
Clean Harbors is the North American leader in providing response services for environmental
emergencies of any scale on
land or
water — from the cleanup and removal of a single mercury bottle to a large - scale multiphase containment and cleanup of a coastal oil spill.
A chartered helicopter carrying professional wrestler Shane McMahon — son of WWE CEO Vince McMahon and Linda McMahon, head of the Small Business Administration in the Trump administration — and a pilot made an
emergency landing this morning in the
waters off Gilgo Beach.
NOAA, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are using
emergency supplemental funds provided by Congress to survey coastal
waters and shorelines, acquiring data that will update East Coast
land maps and nautical charts.
MARAD also seeks to ensure that the United States enjoys adequate shipbuilding and repair service, efficient ports, effective intermodal
water and
land transportation systems, and reserve shipping capacity in time of national
emergency.
The Night Strangers by Chris Bohjalian A pilot who has to make an
emergency landing on
water (think Sully) survives the crash.
By the second lap, millstones chase players down through tunnels and an aerial shortcut opens up mid-way... at risk of flying straight into a Thwomp, so you have to choose your path wisely: do you take the anti-gravity walls, take the risk and fly past the Thwomp, or make an
emergency landing into the surrounding
water?
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Thousands of new
water wells have been constructed on an
emergency basis over the past year, and skyrocketing rates of groundwater pumping have led to rapid
land subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley.
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In the case of US Airways Flight 1549, now known as the «Miracle on the Hudson», Captain Chelsey Sullenberger and his crew managed to avert disaster by affecting a
water landing; however, one outcome of that event was the fact that many passengers were ill equipped to handle an air
emergency.