Sentences with phrase «ran aground»

I have held countless open houses and never ran aground because I always maintained client confidentiality, and performed to the absolute best of my ability.

(Columbus is just a metaphor though, I won't be taking the Santa Maria [which ran aground off Haiti on Christmas Day 1492] or any other galleon.

Emergency teams have been called into action to rescue passengers missing after their cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, ran aground off the coast of Italy, near the island of Giglio.

That's what happened when the Empress of the North, operating by Majestic America Line of Seattle, ran aground southwest of Juneau Alaska in 2007 (although the reports of passenger care and was far different than those coming from the passengers of the Costa Concordia).

After the vessel allegedly ran aground, the start - up company made multiple insurance claims.

In January, a Moldovan cargo ship ran aground near the popular beach resort of Kilyos, spilling 96 tons of fuel oil and 25 tons of diesel oil into the area's bays and out to sea.

The tanker Exxon Valdez, captained by the now infamous Joseph Hazelwood, ran aground on Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, spilling more than 10.8 million US gallons (40.9 million liters) of crude oil into the sensitive natural coastline.

Since the Rena, a Liberian ship, ran aground on a reef off the coast of New Zealand 10 days ago, an environmental catastrophe has been brewing.

The risk of transporting volatile materials via barge was made evident on April 4, 2017, when a vessel carrying 60,000 barrels of gasoline ran aground on the river's west side just offshore the Village of Catskill.

Apparently the Aurora Australis broke mooring during a blizzard and ran aground (on ice?)

«The U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Dutch Shell were fighting 70 mile - per - hour winds and 40 - foot swells as they tried to assess damage to a floating oil drilling ship that ran aground on a remote Alaskan island.»

Despite these triumphs, the floating sector is still ploughing through choppy waters, with notable projects having been delayed in recent weeks, as Scotland's 50MW Kincardine project ran aground due to a disagreement between partners, and 10MW Dounreay Tri, fell afoul of a funding gap.

Gladstone is a cyclone - exposed city on the edge of the Great Barrier Reef, where a Chinese coal ship ran aground in 2010.

Instead, the iceberg ran aground and stalled out.

IMO took over responsibility for this treaty in 1959, but it was not until 1967, when the tanker Torrey Canyon ran aground off the coast of the United Kingdom and spilled more than 120,000 tons of oil into the sea, that the shipping world realized just how serious the pollution threat was.

He sent me a link to an article he wrote for the then fledgling BBC News website back in 1999, a few years after the oil tanker Sea Empress ran aground on the coast of Wales, spilling more than 72,000 tonnes of crude along a coastline that's a favourite for ramblers and nature enthusiasts, not to mention the fishing grounds.

1990: The first climate - related shareholder resolution at Exxon came a year after the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in Alaska's Prince William Sound, creating what was then the nation's largest oil spill and most notorious human - caused environmental disaster.

Four years after the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, herring stocks collapsed and a marked decline was seen in salmon populations.

On Dec. 4 the ship ran aground and began leaking fuel.

Things were very different in 1972, when the Explorer, then owned by Lindblad Expeditions, the company that built it in 1969, had to be evacuated after it ran aground on rocks in a storm in the same region.

The small cruise ship that ran aground along the Antarctic Peninsula last week and spilled some fuel was hauled off the rocks by a Chilean Navy tug boat, according to the Associated Press and Jon Bowermaster, who's in the region on another vessel.

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.

While the Whitney's history has been characterised by a certain wanderlust (the Piano building will mark its fourth location in a little over 80 years), the decision to leave Breuer's celebrated 1966 design has been a difficult one, as is suggested by the six expansion plans for the site that the museum had previously authorised, each of which subsequently ran aground.

Go for a stroll along the cliff top or follow winding beach trails at this beautiful wild and windy spot.At Loch Ard Gorge, hear how this dramatic landscape has a tragic side, as you listen to the tale of the British ship Loch Ard that ran aground near Muttonbird Island in 1878.

It then ran aground in a hurricane in the late 1920s.

The valley, beach, and trail all take their name from the S.S. Tennessee, which overshot the San Francisco Bay and ran aground here in 1853.

The beach features a rusted and partially overturned ship that ran aground in a small, beautiful cove during 1983.

The four speakers will discuss the industry which was marred by tragedy in January this year when the Costa Concordia ran aground off the coast of Italy, killing 32 crew and passengers.

The flight to Cooktown is over reefs and cays, see Endeavour Reef where Captain Cook ran aground in 1770.

During the 1 - hour boat ride, you will also see the shipwrecks of the Callie, a steel schooner built in 1900 that ran aground 100 yards off the coast of Grand Cayman in 1944, and the Balboa, a 375 foot freighter that sank in George Town harbor in 1932 during a hurricane.

Track at the eastern end of the carpark leads to Halladale Point the site where the Falls of Halladale (1886 - 1908) ran aground in 1908.

Mermaid Guest House's name is derived from the Dutch slave ship Meermin which suffered from a mutiny by its slave passengers and eventually ran aground off the coast of Struisbaai in 1766.

This flight takes a specially designed route along the continental shelf adjacent to the Ribbon Reefs where you have a birds eye view of the dive sites, plus views of Endeavour Reef (where Captain Cook ran aground) and the Emily (a shipwreck sitting on top of the reef).

After fumbling blindly through the seas, the side - wheeler ran aground off Anacapa Island and sank.

Some say the rodents arrived after the paddle steamer Winfield Scott ran aground between Middle and East Anacapa islands in 1853.

This small island southeast of the Bali mainland has several favourite breaks; one of them is nicknamed and marked by a ship that ran aground on its northwestern reefs.

Surrounded by steep cliff edges and only reachable via boat, Navagio owes its reputation to a wrecked smugglers» ship that ran aground in the early 20th century and now sits on its pristine sandy shore.

The beach is home to the hull of the ship, SS Dicky, which ran aground during heavy seas in 1893.

Earlier the same day, the mail steamship SS Cuba ran aground nearby.

On the evening of September 8, 1923, seven destroyers, while traveling at 20 knots (37 km / h), ran aground at Honda Point, a few miles from the northern side of the Santa Barbara Channel off Point Arguello on the coast in Santa Barbara County, California.

[33] Upon encountering a heavy fog, Blunt slowed the ship down to 10 knots, but did not realize the current had taken the ship to the west, and the Winfield Scott ran aground off the shores of Anacapa Island.

It ran aground in 1981 after a chase by the Greek navy, which suspected it of smuggling contraband (cigarettes, and maybe also wine and women).

In 1919, a ship, Ethie, ran aground off the Canadian coast and it is said that Tang, a Newfoundland dog, saved the entire crew.

Almost a decade ago, Hurricane Katrina ran aground in the Gulf Coast, whipsawing a great American city and leaving hundreds of communities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama in shambles.

Unlucky fishermen were blown off course and ran aground.

On the voyage home in 1864, her ship ran aground off the coast of North Carolina.

Thor star Chris Hemsworth and his family were rescued by coastguards after their catamaran ran aground close to the Canary Islands on Sunday...

But the project soon ran aground: reportedly, Condon and Mort clashed loudly and publicly (with Mort also apparently feuding with star Keaton as well), and HBO ultimately sided with the director.

In those earliest days, most scientists were tackling small - scale reef damage caused by dropped anchors or boats that ran aground, Vaughan explains.

The icebergs then ran aground, melted and dropped their rocky burdens on the seabed, where subsequent uplift raised them above the waves.