Sentences with phrase «of ocean ships»
The company also today announced that it has placed an order with Fincantieri for three additional sister ships, which will bring Viking's total number of ocean ships to six by 2020.
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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.
The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is no longer reserved for bombarding the bejesus out of ISIS militants in Syria from the cover of the war - torn country's rolling deserts: Marine Corps officials are experimenting with firing the guided artillery system from the deck of an amphibious ship in the middle of the ocean.
The Navy is also renovating hangers and infrastructure in Iceland as part of a project to house P - 8s there for patrols over the Greenland - Iceland - UK gap, a choke point for ships moving between the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans — though those plans don't necessarily include reestablishing a permanent presence there.
COSCO Shipping is a product of a state - driven merger between China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company and China Shipping Group, previously ranked sixth and seventh largest respectively in terms of the world's largest container shipping fleets.
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.
Ships, buoys, and satellites are still necessary, but Saildrone gives researchers an expanded view of the remote corners of the world's oceans.
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.
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.
Not only can cruise ships generate the same amount of sulfur dioxide fumes as 13.1 million cars in a day, but they also dump boatloads of noxious bilge water into the ocean.
Once the pressure in and outside the ship match, the hatch will lift off open, and they can swim out of a fully filled chamber into open 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.
Horizons Ventures Jason Wong said, «Ship activity across the oceans fuels the global economy but is one of the last analog arenas.
It's like raising the tide of the ocean, every ship going to rise as well.
John Newton a captain on a slave ship, transformed by prayer and prayer alone mid ocean in the very act of transporting human cargo.
Just as an anchor plunges deep to the ocean floor to secure a ship, the scriptures pull people's minds deep into the core of their being to experience focused prayer.
Mostly, folks in other parts of the world are too busy working and taking care of their own families to feel any sense of guilt for not shipping dollars across the ocean to folks whom they have never met.
Maybe it's just me, but I find it odd that people blindly believe all of the stories in the bible, considering they were written / created by people who thought the world was flat and sea monsters swallowed ships in 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.
Only one torpedo hit, but it struck a deathblow - killing scores instantly and resetting the ship's course to the bottom of the ocean.
Who had taken their freedom from them and cast them in chains to be shipped across the ocean in the foul - smelling, dank, hot hold of a ship?
According to the Cruise Lines International Association's (CLIA) 2017 State of the Industry Report, 80 new ocean ships are projected between 2017 and 2026, creating growth opportunities for support business.
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.
Of all the threats facing our oceans — from pollution from shipping to agricultural run - off and fishmeal production — one stands out as the worst.
The largest ship to homeport year - round in Miami, Norwegian Getaway boasts 28 dining options, including seafood restaurant Ocean Blue by famed New York Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian and a branch of Carlo's Bake Shop by Buddy Valastro, star of the TLC series «Cake Boss.»
I will tell this story backwards, because the first act of this story, condensed into a single image, is a rocket ship full of manhole covers at 25,000 feet and falling, its engines burning and whipping it into a tailspin and toward the ocean of a cursed, deserted Earth.
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.
Some also use local fabric and materials, enabling you to cut the impact of shipping across the ocean from your diapers» environmental lifecycle, and others, like Mommy's Touch, are manufactured solely by work - at - home moms.
There were a lot of other fun rides the boys enjoyed like «Joe Cool's Dodgem Driving School» bumper cars, «Ocean Motion» the rocking ship, and the «Tiki Twirl» spinning ride.
Currently all shipping and naval activity in the world takes place with the implicit consent of the US navy (in that it is capable of dominating any areas of the ocean it wishes to).
Besides at its height, the dangerous region was very large as the speed boats usually docked with ocean - going support ships instead of the land ports; extending the effective range (and requiring a greater capital investment by the pirates to pay off).
With 50 ships traveling through the canal daily, swapping around 10 million tons of ballast water annually between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, it's no surprise the Suez is a hotbed for species invasion.
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.
Unusually, they occurred along two straight lines in the open ocean, which coincided with two of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
Every year, tens of thousands of cargo ships crisscross the ocean, hauling everything from cars to coffee.
Professor Damon Teagle, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and a veteran of numerous scientific ocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper maOcean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and a veteran of numerous scientific ocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper maocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper mantle.
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.
For instance, next year the ship JOIDES Resolution is scheduled to drill into the floor of the Pacific Ocean to extract rock cores that will span the period from about 53 million to 18 million years ago, a time of vast climate change.
To measure the impact, people go out in ships and drill holes in the ocean floor, where shells of marine organisms have settled throughout geologic history.
NoMelt's ocean bottom seismometer array, with the assistance of Lamont's seismic research ship the Marcus G. Langseth, recorded data from earthquakes and other seismic sources from the middle of the plate over the span of a year.
In all likelihood, each of these crossed at least one ocean within the dark confines of a container measuring 8 by 8.5 by 20 feet, stacked with as many as 10,999 others aboard one of the 4,500 container ships in use around the world.
HEU is affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is the main base for talents cultivation in the fields of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application and scientific research.
With the melting of Arctic Ocean ice, the fabled waterway between Europe and Asia has been open to shipping the past two summers — or has it?
While the shipping industry — which now has easy northern access between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — may be cheering this «natural» development, scientists worry about the impact of the resulting rise in sea levels around the world.
Hybrid Tug Tugboats may look like something out of another era, but they play an essential role in ocean shipping as they push, pull, and prod large vessels into (and back out of) the tight quarters of a port.
Given that ocean observations for climate provide a wide range of benefits to the agricultural, shipping, fishing, insurance, and energy - supply industries, the committee that wrote the report suggested that efforts could be made to draw support for ocean observing from the commercial sector.