Sentences with phrase «of sea vessels»

While cruise ships account for only a small percentage of the sea vessels that sink every year, it is believed that tens of thousands of boats sink each year.

In theory, this would involve using a fleet of sea vessels to churn up millions of tiny microbubbles on the ocean surface.

Not exact matches

THE Great Australian Bight off the Goldfields region of WA could become the next hydrocarbon province.This follows the recent completion of an extensive seismic survey conducted aboard the vessel MV Sea Challenger by GHD - Gardline, a joint venture compri

Moving with the flow, they often use the momentum and direction of moving air mass and sea waves to gently steer their vessels into narrow slips.

The prime ministers of Greece and Turkey worked late Tuesday to calm escalating tensions after a Greek coast guard vessel was damaged in a collision with a Turkish patrol boat in the Aegean Sea, the site of a boundary dispute.

Otherwise, after giving Ghusl, Hunut, Kafan and Namaz - e-Mayyit it should be lowered into the sea in a vessel of clay or with a weight tied to its feet.

Noah could NOT have made a sea - worthy vessel of that size given his tools, materials and seafaring technology of his day.

«16 Thus, Lindsell posits that the cock crowed six times for Peter (in order to harmonize the Gospel accounts); he concludes that «about 23,500» people died on a certain single day (in order to account for Numbers 25:9 citing 24,000 as the figure while Paul asserts in 1 Corinthians 10:8 that it was 23,000); and he hypothesizes that the «molten sea» described in 2 Chronicles 4 as being ten cubits in diameter and thirty cubits in circumference (although we know that C = BD, I. e., the circumference of something ten cubits in diameter is actually 31.4159 cubits) can be understood if the vessel is considered to have sides that are four inches thick, and if the measurement for diameter is taken from the outer edges while the measurement of circumference is taken from the inner edge.17

But while this vessel was out carrying out its decidedly mean - spirited plan, it ran into trouble on the high seas of the Mediterranean, off the coast of Libya.

Why a being with the power to create the universe have to wait for humans with navigation skills and sea worthy vessels to take the knowledge of his existence across the oceans?

Sea Harvest owns and operates a fleet of fishing vessels including single and twin trawlers and a factory freezer vessel, the Harvest Lindiwe.

The waves, however, carried it into the harbour, close to the vessel of a certain Saturninus, who had just arrived from Gaul; a tempest suddenly arose, and Saturninus, then asleep, had a vision that if he did not give burial to a body in the sea near his vessel, he would certainly perish.

«There is nothing more extreme than sea temperatures of 38 degrees, outside air temperatures in the 40's and 50's and suffocating heat and humidity deep in the hulls of live export vessels literally cooking animals alive.»

ROME (Reuters)- A Danish ship carrying some of Syria's most dangerous chemical agents transferred them on Wednesday to an American cargo vessel equipped with special gear to neutralise them at sea, officials said.

As a result, a stateless vessel «enjoys no protection whatever, for the freedom of navigation on the open sea is freedom for such vessels only as sail under the flag of a State».

What is the legal status, and possible legal consequences of being an unregistered vessel on international seas?

This is important to have in mind that the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and customary international law provide that, with a few notable exceptions, the flag state has exclusive jurisdiction over its vessels on the high seas.

The Harry Miller, a 50 - foot vessel that recently conducted surveys of the sea floor both in Gardiner's Bay and off the south shore of the Town of East Hampton, illustrates Deepwater Wind's engagement with stakeholders as the Rhode Island company...

The global refugee crisis and there are 65 million refugees across the world that crisis is a challenge, much of which is on the borders of Europe and that challenge can be met by co-ordinating with our European neighbours, both to crack down on the people smugglers who put men, women and children to sea in unseaworthy vessels.

In an affidavit in support of the suit deposed to by a staff of Sterling Bank, Mr Segun Akinsanya, the bank averred that on Oct. 8, 2012, it granted a lease / Cabotage Vessel Finance Facility (CVFF) to Sea Petroleum and Gas Company.

a vessel mv sea express laden with some 2,500 tones of crude impounded by joint task force in the niger delta, operation pulo shield at okuboto creek in bayelsa state.

But the court by its judgment reinforces NLNG's position that by the provisions of the applicable laws, the company was not subject to payment to NIMASA of the three percent gross freight as well as the Sea Protection Levy and that the two percent Cabotage Levy is inapplicable because NLNG's vessels are not involved in coastal trade or cabotage.

The pioneering loggerhead sea turtle had been plucked from the ocean a few weeks earlier by a Coast Guard vessel and brought to the Aquarium of the Pacific for medical attention, but veterinarians soon decided that the turtle was healthy and could be released.

On the day of the earthquake, Japan's research vessel Chikyu, capable of drilling seven kilometres into the sea floor, was docked in Hachinohe, north of Sendai, preparing for a voyage to sample coal beds deep under the sea floor.

From one of the vessel's lower modules, they would be able to swim directly into the sea or ride an elevator down to 150 feet.

Battling rough seas, scientists aboard the Chinese research vessel Shiyan 3 last month deployed 33 broadband seismometers around the trench, at depths of up to 8137 meters (see map, below).

The 78 - meter - long vessel is «equipped with a remotely operated vehicle capable of diving to 4000 meters,» and it «can berth 40 scientists for up to a month at sea.

During the 12 - day at - sea experiment called GLAD (Grand Lagrangian Deployment), the research team deployed 300 GPS - equipped custom drifter soff the UM Rosenstiel School research vessel F.G. Walton Smith in a region where wind - driven continental shelf currents mix with buoyancy - driven Mississippi River outflow currents and deep eddy - driven currents in the Gulf of Mexico.

«They haven't been found before now because the sonar on the previous Marine National Facility (MNF) research vessel, Southern Surveyor, could only map the sea floor to 3,000 metres, which left half of Australia's ocean territory out of reach.»»

In the study, Kohlbach and her colleagues analysed the stomach contents of the fish — which they had caught directly under the sea ice in the course of a several - week - long expedition to the Arctic Ocean on board the research vessel Polarstern.

On board the new MNF vessel, Investigator, we have sonar that can map the sea floor to any depth, so all of Australia's vast ocean territory is now within reach, and that is enormously exciting,» Professor Arculus said.

After 965 years, the Sea Stallion — a replica of an 11th - century Viking vessel submerged off the coast of Denmark and built in Ireland — had finally come home.

Whistleblower crew members had supplied authorities with photographs and video footage of three ships dumping contaminants, such as sludge and oily waste, far out at sea, taken before the vessels underwent inspections along the coasts of New Jersey, Delaware and California.

Track of the vessel Nathaniel B. Palmer in the Weddell Sea, with the remnants of the Larsen - B Ice Shelf and Antarctic Peninsula in the background.

To find these vents, located two and a half miles below the sea surface in one of the most far - removed places in the world, the team used the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Jason and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Research Vessel Knorr.

No one really knows how many of the world's seas are being fished by commercial vessels — some scientists say nearly all of them.

«It is known in sea trials that these vessels are what we call «tender» in stability terms — they are very stable but have a quick rate of roll when the rudder is moved a few degrees.»

An expeditionary cruise aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute's (SOI) research vessel Falkor leaves on March 10 for open - ocean sea trials of MBARI's newly - designed LRAUVs.

«This isn't a surveillance system that monitors vessel movements across the oceans in real time, like radar tracking of aircraft in the sky; instead we have proposed a system which records images every time a satellite passes over specific points of the sea.

«Although this fleet of AUVs will never replace our need for a capable research vessel, it will provide much needed access to the sea and the collection of novel data sets that would not otherwise be possible,» said Karl.

Those finalists for the accuracy prize that survive Puget Sound will then be sent to sea on a research vessel and tasked with assessing pH at a depth of 3,000 meters, among other rigors.

Japan's half - billion - dollar deep - sea drilling vessel was also a casualty of the tsunami following the massive 11 March earthquake.

A nearby vessel sprays sea water near the surface of Q4000 to keep oil and fumes from interfering with operations.

This makes them attractive for long - range use at sea to stop vessels suspected of drug trafficking, for example.

Now Canadian research vessels sweep the seas in vain, finding not a single school of cod in what was once the world's richest fishery.

Exhaust fumes from oceangoing vessels lead to an almost doubling of lightning activity over shipping lanes compared to adjacent areas of the sea.

We have information on the drift characteristics of many different items, from people to 55 - gallon oil drums to various kinds of vessels, such as life rafts, sea kayaks, sailboats, skiffs and refugee rafts.

In 1985 a research vessel happened through a luminous part of the Arabian Sea and took samples.

A new type of deep - sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of U.S. engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana.

Captain Fitzroy's mission was to map the coastline of South America, well for the Admiralty an often perilous venture in the tempestuous waters of Tierra del Fuego where our little vessel nearly capsized in a storm at sea.