Sentences with phrase «on barges»

These occupations include offshore workers on drilling rigs, production platforms, workers who work on barges and workers who are traveling between land locations in connection with their work.

Google has also recently announced a possible plan to house their new data centers on barges anchored up to seven miles offshore.

At one time not too long ago New York and other east coast cities piled their MSW on barges that were towed out to sea and dumped into the open ocean.

The six - footers, with their bustling activity around canal locks, their lazy fishermen, and their horses towed on barges, are as full of incident — of «world,» one is tempted to say — as Bruegel's peasant scenes.

The company is also offering fleet - wide, per person (based on double occupancy) discounts on cabin rates on these barges, too.

The Schipperke really was important on the barges.

Bred as watchdogs and ratters in their native Belgium, the Schipperkes found plenty of work on the barges.

In the 1690s, the schipperke became popular on the barges and earned its name schipperke, meaning «little captain» in Flemish.

It's a charmingly wry narrative about a small community of people living on barges on the Thames in the 1960s, and if you have any preconceptions about what kinds of people live on barges, Fitzgerald will overturn them.

What meager employment is to be found is the high - risk work of boarding skiffs and laying siege on barges ten times their size, David and Goliath style.

A woman who has lived her whole life on barges, going about her duties with grim efficiency, she discovers her sexual identity and a different kind of feminine power.

Over the course of decades 58 shipments of nuclear waste would be loaded on barges at Indian Point for the 42 miles trip down the River, passing under the new Mario Cuomo Bridge and past New York City on the way to the seaport in New Jersey.

A dozen massive fermentation tanks slowly traveled on barges along a 225 - mile stretch of the Erie Canal before reaching Rochester last week.

More than 500 of these explosions occurred on soil, in space, on barges, or underwater.

The SpaceX team didn't attempt to land on a barge in the ocean from the get - go, they instead practiced with lighter rockets, on land first.

Romeo was the first device to be tested on a barge over open water instead of on a reef, as the US was quickly running out of islands upon which it could test nuclear weapons.

Startup Nautilus Data Technologies is trying to develop a floating data center on a barge that it believes would save companies money on their energy bills by providing easy access to seawater.

Composed of 18 parts and weighing 758 tons, the spire floated into Manhattan several months ago on a barge.

Elon Musk's company SpaceX tried landing a rocket on a barge called the Falcon 9.

The flash - frozen fish is then transported to Portland within a freezer container on a barge and stored locally until it is delivered to you.

I remember the carling cup, when he came on he barged into Arsenal players intentionally and again no blikin card.

Since the majority of our food came in on a barge from Seattle, most of the «fresh», exorbitantly - priced produce spoiled before it even hit the shelves of the grocery store, along with the milk and bread.

A life - sized Thomas the Tank Engine arrived at NYC's Brooklyn Bridge Park, on a barge last week, to celebrate the HIT Entertainment's DVD release of the Thomas & Friends Misty Island Rescue and to introduce the newest Thomas toys from Fisher - Price.

The other two were the Manhattan House of Detention, colorfully known as The Tombs, and the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, which is located on a barge docked across the East River from Rikers Island.

The victims» families, however, attributed the crash mainly to bad lighting on the barge.

«There are other things being done on the barge, the generators and other things... the manufacturers are also doing the final checks on the generators, once they are okay we will be ready to power the line and supply power to the grid,» he added.

The GRIDCO boss however said they are awaiting some mechanical works being carried out on the barge to enable final transmission.

The vessel had 12 crewmen while 16 men were on the barge.

As one woman from Rochdale put it, he «should be sat on a barge somewhere floating up and down».

When a winch on the barge Ready lowered Beebe and Barton toward a depth of 400 feet, they watched seawater seeped through the door of their chilly chamber.

SpaceX plans for the rocket booster to return after launch and land on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean.

«Close, but no cigar this time,» tweeted SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after his firm's Falcon 9 rocket was destroyed as it attempted to land on a barge at sea

Then, workers secured the magnet on a barge, which set sail down the Eastern Seaboard.

During this leg, Emmert International transported the electromagnet 10 miles down William Floyd Parkway to the Smith Point Marina, where it was loaded on a barge later in the day.

One of our coaches told us about a particularly nervous triathlete whom he coached through a panic attack, standing out on the barge in the middle of the Hudson River a few years ago.

Stars of «Transformers: The Last Knight» are set to walk a red carpet on a barge on the Chicago River Tuesday for the U.S. premiere of the film.

Director Michael Bay and cast members Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel and Anthony Hopkins are among those slated to walk the red carpet on a barge on the Chicago River behind the Lyric Opera's Civic Opera House Tuesday evening.

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The centerpiece of the film is Mailer's increasingly debauched wake, set in a replica of the author's Brooklyn home floating on a barge in the East River.

McGregor plays Joe (not Adam), a struggling writer who takes a job working on a barge for a cold and deadpan couple played by Peter Mullan and Tilda Swinton, neither of whom are called Adam.

The setup is straight out of a sitcom pilot, the characterizations broad, the results unsurprising: reawakened joie de vivre, a stiff upper lip relaxed via contact high, and an unlikely late - in - life romance, which comes by way of Bif's grumbly, pot - smoking fix - it man and occasional dance partner, Charlie (Spall), who lives on a barge.

The winning concepts included a school on a barge in the wetlands of New Orleans, where students will learn about coastal restoration and urban planning; a school located in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Public Museum; another focusing on homeless and foster children that will include physical sites, online learning, and mobile resource units that travel to the students; and a lab school in Brooklyn that will aim to give students career experience through partnerships with nonprofits, cultural institutions, businesses, and universities.

The teacher found numerous SMEs at a local volunteer coalition involved in various aspects of cleaning the river, including one group developing a work of consciousness - raising art to be floated on a barge.

AFC Blog: Louisiana's high school on a barge wins $ 10 million in «Super School» competition http://bit.ly/2cjWAr6

USA Today: Louisiana high school on a barge will tackle coastal erosion problem http://usat.ly/2lGcxMv

So i had a really weird thing happen to me the other day... I shipped my car on a barge to to our neighboring island here in Hawaii and when it arrived, «Young Brothers» had to fork lift my vehicle...

I felt like I was on a barge on the Nile in ancient Egypt.

In these cases, tourists can reach the beach on a barge that can also accommodate a four - wheel drive.

In the past, it was unusual to find children or teens on barge trips because the voyages were largely geared to adults.

In all actuality, in the 4 days I spent on the barge, ever meal was delightful, and my mouth waters thinking about the fresh seafood dishes that were offered at both lunch and dinner!