Sentences with phrase «off of a sinking ship»

«When people ask me if I miss it, I tell them «I feel as if I jumped off of a sinking ship.»»

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In 2007, one of their ships, carrying 154 passengers and crew, hit an iceberg and sank off Antarctica.

In January, the swingin» captain of the Costa Concordia, obviously frustrated that he never made it as... whatever the cool job is for boat captains, decided to show off his stunt driving ability, crashing into a reef and sinking his craft before abandoning ship.

Just like you can seal off a damaged or leaky section in a ship to prevent it from sinking, you need to isolate the different parts of your life — your business, your relationships, or your finances — so that they don't spill into each other.

Then he launched a barrage of trial balloons, like flares flying off a sinking ship, to test how just how «tough» he dared to be.

The ivory combs recovered from the wreckage in the hole are identical to combs found in the remains of El Matancero, a Spanish merchant ship that sank off Mexico in 1742, but none of the 16 different crucifixes and religious medals recovered from the hole is like any of the 120 different crucifixes and medals found on the Matancero.

In 1780, a Japanese ship foundered off the coast of a remote Aleutian island, and the Norway rats in the hold lived up to their reputation by fleeing the sinking ship.

By pure happenstance I was there last November one day after Thanksgiving when the first tourist ship sank of [off] the coast of the peninsula.

Editor's Note: Veteran science journalist Philip Hilts is working with a team of archeologists, engineers and divers off the shore of Antikythera, a remote Greek island, where a treasure ship by the same name sank in 70 B.C.

Editor's Note: Veteran science journalist Philip Hilts is working and diving with a team of archeologists, engineers and divers off the shore of Antikythera, a remote Greek island, where a treasure ship by the same name sank in 70 B.C.

Before the MS Explorer sank off the coast of Antarctica seven years ago, passengers fled the ship in inflatable lifeboats in a scene reminiscent of the Titanic disaster.

Getting the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew off the ship as quickly as possible was imperative because the ship was in danger of shifting and sinking.

In October 2009 the government of Italy announced that a wreck discovered off the southwestern tip of the country is the Catania, a passenger vessel sunk during World War I — and not the Cunski, a cargo ship loaded with radioactive waste, as alleged by district authorities from nearby Calabria.

Combine this with glitches galore and a plot with more holes in it than the sinking ship the game starts off on, and it's hard to recommend Riptide to all but the most naïve of zombie enthusiasts.

Synopsis: Tintin and his friends discover directions to a sunken ship commanded by Capt. Haddock's ancestor and go off... Continue reading ««THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN» IS THE MOST FUN A SPIELBERG MOVIE HAS LOOKED IN A WHILE»

Who: Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost What: Tintin and Captain Haddock set off on a quest to find the sunken remains of the Unicorn ship and notorious pirate Red Rackham's treasure.

Whenever a ship has all of its» length spaces checked off they must announce to their opponent that he / she has sunk their ship.

A gripping chapter dedicated to plotting out the ship's collision and sinking is where such attention to detail pays off — having come to know and care about the people on board in a new way makes the poignancy of losing them fresh again.

My dad Morty was a survivor of the 2000 MV Treasure oil spill, when a ship sank six miles off the coast of South Africa and oiled nearly 20,000 penguins.

El Frio El Frio is a cargo ship which sunk, approximately 7 miles off the coast of Isla Mujeres.

The exhibit features a 6 - foot model of the steamer to allow visitors to observe how the ship appeared prior to sinking off San Miguel Island and a corresponding diorama of how the shipwreck appears today underwater.

Our boat The Haleiwa Queens has 4 large glass bottom viewing stations on deck where you will experience the underwater world of Hawaii, from coral formations to old sunken ship hulls with schools of Local Hawaiian tropical fish living on the reef and within the old sunken hulls just off Oahu's Waikiki coast.

At Isla Uvita, just offshore of Limon, are tropical fish, sea fans, and a coral reef, plus the wreck of the Fenix, a cargo ship that sank about a mile off the island years ago.

Roughly 30 minutes later, at about 8:40 a.m., the ship issued a distress call and quickly sank in high winds and rough sea off the coast of the beach town of Punta Leona.

According to historical records, the Seabelle was among the first ships to sink off the coast of Fraser Island since there is very little documentation about it.

For reasons still a mystery, the ship went thousands of miles south off course and sunk in the shallow waters of the Java Sea off Indonesia.

Thomas Hirschhorn's Concordia, Concordia, shown in 2012 at Gladstone Gallery in New York, was a helter - skelter room - size assemblage of replicas of objects from the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that sank off the coast of Italy earlier that year.

Although not solely a tourist ship, the Argentine Navy supply ship Bahia Paraiso carrying up to 82 paying tourists ran aground and sank off of Palmer Station on Jan 28, 1989.

Early Sunday morning, Shell's Noble Discoverer drill ship sank a bit into the Burger Prospect, about 70 miles off the Alaska coast, the beginning of a 1,400 - foot pilot hole that will form the basis for a mile - deep exploration well.

What's more, it's suspected there are 32 more vessels waiting to be found: The ship was discovered after a former member of the «Ndrangheta organized crime organization tipped off police — the informant was personally responsible for sinking this ship and two others.

But this time around, they say the added pressures of a tanking economy and firm layoffs will flood the market with even more partners looking for new homes, or for quick escape routes off sinking ships.

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