Sentences with phrase «many crewmen»

Naval Special Warfare (NSW)- home to the Navy SEAL and SWCC (Special Warfare Combatant - Craft Crewmen) teams.

She became not one of the lost ones, like the hapless and anonymous crewmen accompanying Odysseus, but the hero of her own story.

His crewmen, on the other hand, scarcely individualized except by their failings, are so much flotsam and jetsam in the service of highlighting his eminence.

Precarious Perch on plunging bow of yawl Spray is taken by crewman who watches as hastily repaired genoa jib is rehoisted.

When not trimming the jib or working the running backstays, the two crewmen demanded by a 5.5 huddle in the bottom of a chest - high cockpit or pump out the gallons of spray that slosh dismally over the foredeck going upwind.

As if by magic, all three of her crewmen's injuries healed.

Berra Spetz, 27, one of the 13 permanent crewmen aboard the Radich, has a more novel approach to combating boredom at sea.

The story stayed the same for Team Penske in 2013 as yet another one of the Captain's crewmen finished second in the championship for a fourth straight time.

At 0925 hours Crewman Jonah of the starboard watch fell overboard and was eaten by a whale.

In eight solo RAAMs he overcame a range of bizarre misfortunes, including salmonella poisoning that he says he developed when one of his crewmen, a reptile breeder, brought along a pregnant iguana and kept it in the cooler with Gerry's water bottles.

And to prove the point he has built «Kialoa,» designed to win the forthcoming race by keeping its crewmen fat and happy

Then the real Needs of the navy kicked in Another boat going out the day of crew turnover lost a crewman to appendacitus.

We could not catch a break with the navy making him board a Greyhound COD to Jaxsonville and replacing one of five crewmen that were busted in a drug test going to sea the net morning out of Kings Bay.

The vessel had 12 crewmen while 16 men were on the barge.

Experts believe ice trapped the Erebus and the HMS Terror in 1846, dooming the 128 crewmen and their leader, explorer Sir John Franklin.

The oil spill began on 20 April when an uncontrolled release of oil and gas from an underwater well caused an explosion that engulfed the Deepwater Horizon rig, killing 11 crewmen on board.

From the deck, he could hear the shrill voices of four crewmen, who were being punished by Fitzroy with a total of 134 lashes for their Christmas escapades.

JFK rescued an injured crewman by swimming for 5 hours with the crewman in tow.

Native to the Caribbean, sand fleas infected crewmen sailing with Columbus on the Santa Maria after they were shipwrecked on Haiti.

The Castle Bravo blast contaminated the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon No. 5, with its 23 crewmen exposed to about 260 rads — a measurement of radiation absorbed by human tissue.

Mechanic / Drag racing pit Crewman..

Great story, feel that Russian Nuclear Submarine Sailors and Crewmen (KGB).

A group of Nazi naval officers and crewmen are stranded on Canadian soil (we have no sympathy for the castaways, inasmuch as we have just seen them refusing food and water to a group of torpedoed British seamen).

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

One of the most interesting crewmen is David (Michael Fassbender), an 8th generation android from Weyland Industries who has secrets of his own.

In fact, by the end of the film, I still didn't really understand who was doing what, nor their position relative to their fellow crewmen.

It's an old and trusted narrative device, as through Norman's eyes we can see how his fellow crewmen — Shia LaBeouf's Bible - quoting psychopath, Jon Bernthal's primal Southerner and Michael Pena's earthy Hispanic — have been moulded if not warped by what they've seen and done.

The real Jack Sparrow leads a daring rescue of his crewman.

«It also ignores the fact that by 1938, lascars — mostly from South Asia and East Africa — counted for one of four crewmen on British merchant vessels, and thus participated in large numbers in the evacuation.»

Of the 1196 crewmen, nearly 300 went down with the ship.

He launches a small rescue boat with only three additional crewmen and attempts to cross Cape Cod's Chatham bar while battling 60 foot waves, raging winds, freezing temperatures, and the loss of his compass!

A scene in which crewman on the Nimitz clasp their hands to their heads as they travel through a wormhole, juxtaposed with newsreel footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor, elicits genuine pathos, however intentional, at opportunities squandered and historical tragedies re-experienced.

Why, for instance, would one portray the death of a black conspirator on a slaver ship bound for Louisiana at the hand of a white crewman about to rape a sympathetic figure, when the document reveals this conspirator was taken by smallpox?

Unfortunately these conflicts result in the death of many crewmen who are run through with swords, stabbed with knives or shot at point - blank range.

Synopsis: After a near - fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he's caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp...

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces this epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived on a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII — only to be caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

Though it certainly preaches its case continuously, is talky, and on retrospect seems dated in parts, but its episodic description of stranded German U-boat crewmen and their violent foray into Canada is filled with chilling moments that intercuts with an invigorating ongoing debate on freedom versus totalitarianism.

The remaining crewmen must struggle to survive.

In what the screenwriters feel is a necessary subplot, one of crewmen (Affleck, Phantoms) is getting it on with his Stamper's daughter (Tyler, U Turn) and they will soon be married should the mission be successful.

Borrowing his boss's yacht and an extra crewman (Rainn Wilson), Dirk and Al head upstream to pursue the object.

His first crewman was a fridge salesman (Anders Baasmo Christianseen) his other three more experienced in the field, ethnographer Bengt (Gustav Skarsgard aka Vikings» Floki), navigator Torstein (Jakob Oftbro) and Knut (Tobias Santelmann) who would operate their only concession to their time, 1947, the radio.

Embarking from Oslo, Norway, the Christian Radich sets out across the Atlantic with a storm - tossed stop in Madeira, where New Year's festivities entice the young crewmen to enjoy Portuguese musical celebrations and heart racing rides in basket sleds down steep cobblestone streets.

And one of Louis» fellow crewmen offers a prayer of gratitude after they make a miraculous landing with a battered plane.

In this script a so - called predator hunted down crewmen on a 17th century sailing ship who has to fight back with inferior weaponry.

Crewman Grady Travis, for one, adheres to this callous sentiment.

Boasting expert special effects, a large cast of seamen (including Donald Crisp as a supportive mutineer), and a huge gathering of Tahitian extras for the Bounty's arrival at tropical paradise, Lloyd's skillful grasp of montage is particularly evident in the Bounty's departure from England; rapid cutting and elegant photography capture the excitement as sails are opened, tightened, and crewmen leap across the ship to ensure she makes a majestic impression upon the locals who have gathered in excited support.

Crewmen climb onto the team's golf cart and whiz away, and Kettler leaps on the back of the cart like an action hero, barely hanging on while it careens past a long row of race team trailers.

But when the team arrived at Le Mans in 1966, crewmen realized they wouldn't be visible at night, so they slathered them with white paint, then splashed them with red.

[119] Coinciding with the VY II models was the first four - door utility model dubbed the Holden Crewman.

The third generation architecture spawned the most body styles, with a new Holden utility launched in 2000 (now officially as the Holden Ute), reborn Monaro coupé in 2001, four - door Holden Crewman utility and all - wheel drive (AWD) Holden Adventra crossover in 2003.