Sentences with phrase «ocean ship on»
Viking Cruises has aggressive expansion plans in both the ocean and river cruise categories, with a second ocean ship on order for delivery in 2016 and conditional orders and options for four more additional ocean vessels.
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In 2010 she hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on freighter ships to the United States, where she worked with the 5 Gyres Institute in California on the first ever comprehensive study of plastic in the world's oceans.
Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.
Two touched down on land, and the plan for the third was for it to settle back on an unmanned drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
When Saildrone can connect all of its data points, it will be able to predict natural disasters, provide real - time weather conditions on the ocean, and manage fishing areas and shipping lanes.
The mission will launch using a Falcon 9 rocket, which will return to land on the SpaceX autonomous ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 minutes after liftoff.
The Seawalk is a glass walkway on the starboard side of the ship 40 metres above sea level, where you can see straight down to the ocean below.
STEP 5 Sometimes the cable is left to sink to the ocean floor and rest on the sandy bottom, but for the best protection from ship anchors, fishing nets and shark attacks, a sea plow or remotely operated vehicle may be used to bury cable between 1.5 and 3 metres below the bottom.
The ship has spent most of its life in dock, but has been deployed on several disaster relief missions in the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and floods in 2010 and 2011.
This is in contrast to other, sunnier reports on Arctic melt, which detail the possible «good» this melt will have — opening up shipping lanes, increasing fishing, and even allowing us to access minerals, natural gas, and oil in the ocean bed.
This photo shows the used, roughly 140 - foot - tall Falcon 9 rocket booster landing on a drone ship in the ocean.
During that mission, a Dragon resupply ship will launch toward the station, and SpaceX will also attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on an «autonomous spaceport drone ship» in the Atlantic Ocean.
The reused rocket was also the first to successfully land on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship, which was sailing across the Atlantic Ocean.
John Newton a captain on a slave ship, transformed by prayer and prayer alone mid ocean in the very act of transporting human cargo.
But I never forget they had the courage to build that ship, to sail out on the oceans, and to face a New World.
And the ship was suddenly unable to move, which is called «trouble,» particularly when you're on the ocean.
All four stayed on the ship's new course to the bottom of the ocean and gave their lives so others might live.
It's basically a 5 - star resort on a ship, in the middle of the ocean.
Two crews of Italian videographers were aboard the ship and the one that was shooting a television nature documentary put on heavy - duty wetsuits to brave the freezing ocean, while getting up - close and personal with the aquatic birds.
The Quincentenary race marked the first ocean crossing for most of the crew members — certainly their first one on a sailing ship — and the voyage was filled with delightful surprises.
However every night, we could count on a cruise compass to be left on our bed (a booklet with all the ship's activities for the next day and also the day's activities for Adventure Ocean — the kid portion of the ship) which was a great way to plan the next day's adventures.
Optical sensors installed on ships, for instance, can determine ocean water color that reflects the activity of micro-algae at the bottom of the food chain and, when examined alongside satellite color observations, can support extrapolations about what's happening in a given area of ocean.
A 9.0 - magnitude earthquake off the coast of the Aleutian Islands triggered the mighty wave, which left behind up to nine shipping containers worth of ocean sediment in a sinkhole on the island of Kauai.
So you have these ships on the open ocean basically burning the nastiest stuff on Earth as they come into port — ports like the Port of Los Angeles, where you have the strong westerly wind and huge amounts of port traffic, [and] all this burning bunker fuel comes inland.
Looking at the locations of 1.5 billion lightning strokes from 2005 to 2016, the team found nearly twice as many lightning strokes on average over major routes ships take across the northern Indian Ocean, through the Strait of Malacca and into the South China Sea, compared to adjacent areas of the ocean that have similar climOcean, through the Strait of Malacca and into the South China Sea, compared to adjacent areas of the ocean that have similar climocean that have similar climates.
JANUARY 1910 WAVE VS. SHIP — «Was it a last despairing protest of Old Ocean, when he lifted his giant hand in the blackness of night on January 10, and smote the Cunard liner «Lusitania» a blow which racked and splintered her lofty bridge and pilot house, 75 feet above the sea, and crushed down her forecastle deck and decks beneath, giving them a permanent depression of several inches?
Instead, the team proposes, soot and other particles in the ships» exhaust create large numbers of cloud droplets that are, on average, smaller than those forming around natural dust particles in the air elsewhere over the ocean.
Asahiko Taira, a JAMSTEC executive director, says that with their high fixed costs, «reductions will come out of pure research - related money,» though they will try to minimize the impact on the drill ship Chikyu, Japan's contribution to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.
The biggest impact is expected to be on cruise ships plying the Southern Ocean.
Malakoff (p. 1502) takes on ocean noise, which is increasing because of ever - expanding ship traffic.
But they know far less about blue whales in the Northern Indian Ocean, where ships strike and kill some of the largest animals on Earth.
On board of this ship belonging to the Spanish Armada, and the Sarmiento de Gamboa ship belonging to the CSIC, researchers studied for nine months (seven aboard the Hespérides and two aboard the Sarmiento) the impact of the global change on the ocean ecosystem and explored its biodiversitOn board of this ship belonging to the Spanish Armada, and the Sarmiento de Gamboa ship belonging to the CSIC, researchers studied for nine months (seven aboard the Hespérides and two aboard the Sarmiento) the impact of the global change on the ocean ecosystem and explored its biodiversiton the ocean ecosystem and explored its biodiversity.
Using it, ships and airplanes can cross the oceans along «great circle routes» that look circuitous (when displayed on a flat map) but which in fact follow the straightest, quickest way across.
These are the conclusions of the first systematic analysis of the economic cost of Arctic melting, which delivers a sobering antidote to other, more upbeat assessments that say melting in this area would improve access to minerals on the ocean bed, increase fishing and create ice - free shipping lanes.
Crevice and pitting corrosion isn't the kind of widespread surface rusting you may see on the hulls of old ships exposed to the ocean.
«The AIS can become a vital tool in helping to protect whale and other marine mammal species, particularly in locations such as the Arctic where shipping is potentially on the increase,» said Dr. Howard Rosenbaum, Director of WCS's Ocean Giants Program.
When petroleum leaks from a ship or a deep - water drilling operation, «it tends to break up into tiny droplets that don't all end up on the surface of the ocean,» says Thomas Azwell, an environmental scientist at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who was not involved in the work.
As the LRAUVs move through the ocean, they collect information about water temperature, chemistry, and chlorophyll (an indicator of microscopic algae) and send this data to scientists on shore or on a nearby ship.
He has done similar work aboard ships, rocking and swaying high above hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, when he wasn't in the submersible itself, exploring the steaming depths.
The DynOPO (Dynamics of the Orkney Passage Outflow) expedition will travel to the Southern Ocean aboard the BAS research ship RRS James Clark Ross, departing Punta Arenas in Chile on Friday 17 March.
Ship by ship, voyage by voyage, ocean scientists will taste the pleasure that in January 2007 welcomed Julian Gutt of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany, as he sat on the Polarstern watching video images of the seafloor transmitted by a robot dangling from the ship: the joy of seeing what no one has seen befShip by ship, voyage by voyage, ocean scientists will taste the pleasure that in January 2007 welcomed Julian Gutt of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany, as he sat on the Polarstern watching video images of the seafloor transmitted by a robot dangling from the ship: the joy of seeing what no one has seen befship, voyage by voyage, ocean scientists will taste the pleasure that in January 2007 welcomed Julian Gutt of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany, as he sat on the Polarstern watching video images of the seafloor transmitted by a robot dangling from the ship: the joy of seeing what no one has seen befship: the joy of seeing what no one has seen before.
Bacteria and small organisms like crabs and mussels brought in on ships coming from warmer oceans could spread disease and compete with native species for resources.
Littler, a PhD student from University College London, was lucky enough to experience life on board the JOIDES Resolution, a retired oil exploration vessel now used as a research ship by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilOcean Drilling Program (IODP), an international partnership of research institutions that focuses on exploring Earth's structure and history through ocean drilocean drilling.
Its expedition staff must have been annoyed to find our ship, the Ocean Princess, already there, because their 75 passengers would not welcome sharing the beach with our 400 (though we allowed only 100 on shore at any one time).
In the ocean, however, fishing continued to rely on sailing ships clustered in small slivers of near - shore water.
But the box had to be built more strongly when it was decided to move it on ships where you have a lot of motion and it has to be attached firmly to the ship and it has to be stronger to be lifted and bear the ocean motion.
The clearest example yet of humanity's influence on atmospheric electrostatic discharges, however, surfaced recently when researchers discovered dense trails of lightning in the soot - filled skies over two of the world's busiest shipping routes in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.
A review just published by PML Applications Ltd (the wholly - owned subsidiary of Plymouth Marine Laboratory, PML) and the University of Plymouth, brings together and updates evidence on invasive species for the NE and SW Atlantic Ocean, in order to assess the risk represented by the shipping trade between these two regions.
And on 4 July, India's science minister Ashwani Kumar announced that the country planned to mine rare - earth minerals from the sea bed of the Central Indian Ocean Basin, using up to four specially commissioned ships.
Jeanine Ash, a new Rice postdoctoral researcher and recipient of a Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C - DEBI) fellowship, is the focus of a video about her duties as a member of the science party on the JOIDES Resolution, a research ship and part of the National Science Foundation - supported International Ocean Discovery Program.