Sentences with phrase «with ocean shipping»

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In 2010 she hitchhiked across the Pacific Ocean on freighter ships to the United States, where she worked with the 5 Gyres Institute in California on the first ever comprehensive study of plastic in the world's oceans.

The M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is no longer reserved for bombarding the bejesus out of ISIS militants in Syria from the cover of the war - torn country's rolling deserts: Marine Corps officials are experimenting with firing the guided artillery system from the deck of an amphibious ship in the middle of the ocean.

Rolls - Royce envisions a future shipping command center, equipped with a highly advanced AI system that can manage all freight ships in the ocean.

Two crews of Italian videographers were aboard the ship and the one that was shooting a television nature documentary put on heavy - duty wetsuits to brave the freezing ocean, while getting up - close and personal with the aquatic birds.

Ocean Beauty was faced with the Seafood Processing industry in Alaska's unique requirements when it comes to boxing and shipping the fish.

The Quincentenary race marked the first ocean crossing for most of the crew members — certainly their first one on a sailing ship — and the voyage was filled with delightful surprises.

However every night, we could count on a cruise compass to be left on our bed (a booklet with all the ship's activities for the next day and also the day's activities for Adventure Ocean — the kid portion of the ship) which was a great way to plan the next day's adventures.

Currently all shipping and naval activity in the world takes place with the implicit consent of the US navy (in that it is capable of dominating any areas of the ocean it wishes to).

Besides at its height, the dangerous region was very large as the speed boats usually docked with ocean - going support ships instead of the land ports; extending the effective range (and requiring a greater capital investment by the pirates to pay off).

With 50 ships traveling through the canal daily, swapping around 10 million tons of ballast water annually between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, it's no surprise the Suez is a hotbed for species invasion.

Sato et al. (p. 1395, published online 19 May) describe the huge displacements from ocean bottom transponders — previously placed directly above the earthquake's hypocenter — communicating with Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers aboard a ship.

Unusually, they occurred along two straight lines in the open ocean, which coincided with two of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.

The ship is equipped with a SeaBeam system, which bounces a sonar signal off the ocean floor while tracing a back - and - forth swath over the area like a lawnmower.

NoMelt's ocean bottom seismometer array, with the assistance of Lamont's seismic research ship the Marcus G. Langseth, recorded data from earthquakes and other seismic sources from the middle of the plate over the span of a year.

In all likelihood, each of these crossed at least one ocean within the dark confines of a container measuring 8 by 8.5 by 20 feet, stacked with as many as 10,999 others aboard one of the 4,500 container ships in use around the world.

HEU is affiliated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and is the main base for talents cultivation in the fields of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application and scientific research.

With the melting of Arctic Ocean ice, the fabled waterway between Europe and Asia has been open to shipping the past two summers — or has it?

HEU has formed a well - structured curriculum that is characterized by the main subjects of ship industry, ocean equipment and exploration, and nuclear application as well as distinctive, related disciplines with matching support and reasonable structural layout: 12 first - degree doctoral stations, 27 first - degree master stations, 56 under graduate majors, 13 post-doctoral mobile stations (research station), 1 national key discipline of the first - degree subjects, 1 national key discipline of the second - degree subjects, 11 defense featured subjects, 7 special defense majors, 4 characteristic profession stations of the Ministry of Education, 1Heilongjiang provincial key discipline group, 11 first - degree subjects.

In recent years, buoy - based measurements, thought to be more accurate as buoy sensors are in direct contact with the ocean surface, have grown in frequency, while ship - based measurements have become less common.

The team from Imperial College London, Southampton and Liverpool universities, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC), were collecting ocean - bottom seismometers aboard the NERC research ship R.R.S. James Cook as part of a larger experiment when they were alerted to the volcano erupting.

The coastline was barely recognizable; what had been one of the most beautiful and regular harbors in Asia now was an obstacle course, littered with masses of black pumice stone, tree trunks burnt and splintered as if by lightning, and the prows of previously sunken ships which the ocean had thrown onto land.

Furthermore, the lifeboats that got away stayed away until after the ship had filled with enough water for her stern to soar into the heavens and the hull to split into two gigantic pieces before plunging two miles down to the ocean floor.

Asahiko Taira, a JAMSTEC executive director, says that with their high fixed costs, «reductions will come out of pure research - related money,» though they will try to minimize the impact on the drill ship Chikyu, Japan's contribution to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.

For ocean scientists who have worked with the U.S. military, today's news that Chinese forces seized an oceanographic glider launched by an unarmed U.S. Navy research ship working in the South China Sea has a familiar ring.

The albatross's ability to fly for thousands of kilometres over oceans with barely a flap of its wings has inspired the concept of a diminutive, ship - launched spotter plane that flies great distances by employing some of the bird's lift - generating techniques.

For example, the use of spatial zoning to reduce the overlap of fisheries, oil rigs and shipping lanes with areas of the ocean used by penguins; the use of appropriate fishing methods to reduce the accidental bycatch of penguins and other species; and, the use of ecologically based fisheries harvesting rules to limit the allowable catches taken by fishermen, particularly where they target species that are also food for penguins.»

Invasive species are entering the region with or without shipping, says Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado; warming of the Arctic Ocean's surface temperatures has already increased mixing with foreign waters and all the microbes they contain.

That same year a European probe that had traveled with Cassini plunged into the thick, foggy atmosphere of the moon Titan and — together with the mother ship's measurements from above — found evidence of an ocean of ammonia and water hidden beneath a stunning landscape of dunes, mountains, and rivers.

The spacecraft is equipped with a heat shield to survive the temperatures of re-entry, and the capsule is intended to be recovered by ship crews after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean.

Bacteria and small organisms like crabs and mussels brought in on ships coming from warmer oceans could spread disease and compete with native species for resources.

The research team ruled out places that would come into conflict with other human uses, such as high shipping zones and marine protected areas, and excluded ocean depths that exceed 200 meters, following current industry practice to keep their assessment economically realistic.

Its expedition staff must have been annoyed to find our ship, the Ocean Princess, already there, because their 75 passengers would not welcome sharing the beach with our 400 (though we allowed only 100 on shore at any one time).

«Whale sharks are under threat from human impacts of hunting and ship strike and it makes it much easier to plan for conservation if we only have to deal with neighbouring countries in each region rather than localities spread across the entire Indian Ocean.»

The largest discrepancies with existing data were discovered in the Southern Hemisphere, where historical records are as sparse as the shipping traffic that traditionally provided so much of the planet's ocean weather information.

The most important bias globally was the modification in measured sea surface temperatures associated with the change from ships throwing a bucket over the side, bringing some ocean water on deck, and putting a thermometer in it, to reading the thermometer in the engine coolant water intake.

Taking turns with his shipmates, Wiens swung bright - yellow ocean bottom seismometers and hydrophones off the fantail, and lowered them gently to the water's surface, as the ship laid out a matrix of instruments for a seismic survey on the trench.

The conferences have focused on international ocean affairs with topics ranging from arms control, and monitoring and surveillance in the oceans to management and conservation of marine resources; the feasibility of common shipping lines or on ocean development tax; and more recently on emerging issues and challenges presented by climate change, coastal cities and ocean related hazards.

I have been privileged to explore the world's deepest oceans alongside amazing teams of researchers, and with this new polar research ship they will be able to go further and discover more than ever before.

The ship «will provide the UK with the most advanced floating research fleet in the world and will help put the UK at the forefront of ocean research for years to come,» according to the site.

Microbiologist, Dr. Jason Sylvan, Assistant Professor of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, who samples microbes from the depths of ocean, measures microbial enzyme activity using the portable Spark ® microplate reader by Tecan that he carries with him on the ship.

At 22 - years - old, I was hiring and managing interns my own age, writing speeches, liaising with the Pentagon on behalf of Veterans in California, and I even flew in a Marine Corps helicopter to greet a ship in the Pacific Ocean that was returning from the Middle East.

They try to stop him in the courts, and when that fails, the race is on from Liverpool to New York, between Shaw's steam - powered ship and Gillespie's sail - driven former ship, with Mary aboard to look out for her father and Gillespie, and the future of ocean travel in the balance.

From above, they are one group, one people, covering the screen from corner to corner in their dark coats and hats — and then, with a deep rumble, the ship begins to pull away, an ocean opening between them.

The fourth film in the Ice Age franchise, Ice Age: Continental Drift, follows the main characters — Manny (Ray Romano), Diego (Denis Leary), Sid (John Leguizamo) and Scrat (Chris Wedge)-- as they embark across newly created oceans with an iceberg as their ship.

Several tense scenes underwater: A sunken ship falls to the ocean floor with two men trapped inside; a diver is almost hit by submarine; a man almost drowns to death; a man almost freezes to death underwater; a submarine is entangled with a diver's air cables and almost knocks the diver unconscious.

«The Patriot,» starring Ken Watanabe Like «Gladiator,» this version of «The Patriot» is mostly the same, but with a new backstory for the lead plus some racial tension: Watanabe plays a Japanese sailor whose ship was caught in a storm that sent it drifting across the Pacific Ocean, eventually reaching the California coast.

Owen butts heads with the ship's captain, George Pollard (Benjamin Walker from «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter») over how to command the crew and set the course of the vessel as they roam the Atlantic Ocean in search of their prey.

His final line, «Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships, because they knew death was better than bondage,» is just astounding in its impact, and it will go down in history.

Riffing off the fact that subs in World War II often acted as independent vessels, Silent Hunter gives you your own ship with your own crew and your own mission, and in simply allowing you to prowl the oceans like some phallic sea monster it ends up providing both incredible freedom and an overwhelmingly atmospheric vision of what life was like for all those sailors in WWII.

A dream - sequence reunion between Erik and his slain father (Sterling K. Brown) might count as the most affecting moment in MCU history — if not all of superhero cinema — were it not for Killmonger's final lines: «Throw me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped off the slave ships,» he says, «because they knew death was better than bondage.»