Sentences with phrase «of airguns»

The proposed seismic surveys will use arrays of airguns towed behind ships as they explore for oil and gas deposits beneath the ocean floor.

BASC has announced it is hosting a joint conference with the RSPCA to examine issues around the misuse of airguns

Not exact matches

With each pair of mechanics having only one airgun between them, pit stops have become a lot slower in DTM - and it's all the better for it

BASC Scotland today welcomed official figures which show the number of offences involving airguns has dropped from 427 in 2009/10 to 233 in 2010/11.

BASC also outlined its investment in a national network of highly - qualified airgun and shotgun coaches who provide tens of thousands of adults, children and young people with shooting opportunities they may not otherwise enjoy.

The vast majority of people who use airguns do so lawfully and there are already sufficient powers available to deal with the small minority who break the law.

Legal requirement for airguns to be stored out of the reach of children.

A group of schoolchildren from Sheffield have been learning about airguns, gundogs and conservation with BASC this month.

Airguns are a vital part of target shooting and pest control in Scotland and the overwhelming majority are used sensibly, lawfully and responsibly.»

The SNP committed to increase the number of police on the street, restrict access to all firearms, including airguns, and clamp down on the sale of drink to under 18s in a bid to prevent anti-social behaviour.

BASC, the UK's largest shooting organisation, and the RSPCA are establishing a working group on airgun crime following the success of a ground - breaking joint conference in London.

BASC will tell the Home Office that no further restrictions are needed on airguns following the launch of a consultation to consider future regulation

Two teams of volunteer observers on geographically separated Queensland Sunshine Coast beaches tracked the whales» movements before airguns began firing, while guns were going off, and for an hour after.

The cacophony produced by the airguns is likely to disrupt the whales» vital behavior, with the resulting stress causing negative impacts on the health of individual animals.

After the Thompson returned to Guam and Wiens flew back to St. Louis to resume his less romantic duties as chair of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the research vessel Marcus G. Langseth began to sail transects above the matrix of seismometers, firing the 36 - airgun array on its back deck.

His past work includes computational noise models for seismic airguns, marine pile driving, survey sonars, marine shipping, and full - wave propagation of impulses.

While military sonar systems and seismic airguns used in oil / gas exploration and scientific research have received considerable attention in the overall issue of noise impacts on marine life, less intense but far more widespread and chronically - present noise sources, particularly large commercial ships, have only recently begun to be specifically considered.

«On a daily basis we hear and witness instances where cats suffer unimaginable pain and suffering — from being the unintended victim of a snare, being peppered with shots from airguns or trying to survive without food or shelter as an unwanted and abandoned stray on the streets.

Despite this, Prime Minister Dean Barrow and the government of Belize have decided to move forward with a plan that, according to the World Wildlife Fund, «involves using airguns to blast shock waves through the water that are powerful enough to penetrate the seafloor» less than one mile from the UNESCO Heritage site of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System.

Oil India Ltd has proposed an oil exploration plan that would involve seismic surveying using explosives and airguns along the bed of the Brahmaputra.

Seismic airgun surveys are the first step toward offshore drilling, of course, but under the current five - year Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas leasing program adopted by the Obama Administration, the Atlantic can not be considered for drilling.

Companies searching for oil also use seismic airguns, which typically produce blasts of underwater sound comparable to a jet engine every ten seconds.

A 2013 scientific review found that seismic airgun surveys can have negative impacts on marine mammals like narwhals in a number of ways.

Seismic airguns are being fired underwater off the east coast of Greenland to find new oil reserves in the Arctic Ocean.

The trial judge applied R. v. McManus, (2006), 214 O.A.C. 77, and required proof the airgun was a «weapon», as defined in s. 2 of the Criminal Code.

Further investigation determined that the handgun was a Crosman Pro77 airgun that fires.177 calibre spherical BBs propelled by means of compressed air from a canister.

R. v. Dunn (C.) 2013 ONCA 539 Criminal Law — Weapons — What constitutes a weapon The accused was found to be in possession of a Crosman Pro77 airgun that fired.177 calibre spherical BBs.