Sentences with phrase «running the ship aground»

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Unlike aircraft, ships lack a back - up navigation system and if their GPS ceases to function, they risk running aground or colliding with other vessels.

Oh yeah, when Noah (being well over 500 years old) has his ship run aground on top of Ararat, how exactly does he then get all the marsupials back to Australia, all the grizzlies back to Western North America, all the polar bears back to the North Pole, all the anacondas back to South America, all the emperor penguins back to Antarctica, etc, etc, etc?

The massive cruise ship ran aground in a marine reserve off Italy's Giglio Island in January 2012, killing 32.

In 2012, 236 ships ran aground, damaging coral reef systems that can take thousands of years to heal.

The University of Nottingham and Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (RNoNA) are investigating how to prevent shipping Global Positioning Signals (GPS) being jammed in potential cyberattacks that may cause vessels to go off course and collide or run aground.

A tank landing ship run aground on Hatteras Island.

«After a few weeks, out of the blue, he tells me the ship he's working on has run aground and he needed $ 50,000 to get it floated, that he was desperate.

Classic Ealing comedy about the mayhem that ensues when a Scotch - laden ship runs aground off the coast of the Outer Hebrides.

You can always see Ray's brain - wheels turning, and it's enough to convince his fellow crewmates to listen to him and follow his unorthodox advice (essentially, to try and run the remaining piece of the ship aground and wait for rescue) even though he has no authority to set the course.

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

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

[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.

However, Delphy was actually several miles northeast of where they thought they were, and the error caused the ships to run aground on Honda Point.

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

At one point on the channel is Point Arguello, a headland near the city of Lompoc, and the site of the Honda Point disaster in 1923, in which seven US Navy destroyers run aground, in the largest peacetime loss of US Navy ships.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You soon awake to find that all hell broke loose on board the ship, and without going into any more detail your ship runs aground and you wake up on... wait for it....

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.

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.

Just over one year after the polar cruise ship MV Explorer sank off Antarctica, another such ship, the MV Ushuaia, has run aground on rocks in the same area.

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

Modern double hull oil tankers are not as susceptible to spills, but the many small ships (especially low budget, unlicensed ships) carrying goods of all types can and do run aground, causing smaller spills.

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.

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

«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.»

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.

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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.

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So when Dix nixed expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline that ships oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C., ostensibly because of environmental concerns (and to win back environmental New Democrats who were leaking — if not gushing — into the Green camp), his campaign may have run aground, and his comments may have angered members of the B.C. and Yukon Territories Building and Construction Trades Council, who were counting on the union jobs that the project would create.

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.

Helping you to keep the keel in the water and not allowing your ship to run aground.