The SUNS system can determine positions underwater by the use of small buoys which broadcast the position and time references by sonar signals. |
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Her faith in my indestructibility is a fathomless ocean that buoys me upward. |
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Information is gathered from a multitude of sources including surface observation points, ships, buoys and aircraft. |
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This obviously buoys the market in good times and smooths its falls in recessions. |
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According to the plan, white buoys would designate coral reefs and sea preservative areas. |
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She thinks they must be restaurant reviews and this buoys her spirits since she imagines it must mean the food is good. |
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Accumulations of zebra mussels clog municipal water systems, and have even been known to sink navigational buoys by their combined weight alone. |
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Newry and Mourne Council are providing necessary navigation buoys in the Clanrye River estuary from Narrow Water to the Victoria. |
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Modern, well-equipped dive boats leave every day for different sites, all 60 of which have mooring buoys. |
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First, two experienced divers armed with buoys marked the reef and the area which needed to be cleaned. |
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The rescuers used breeches buoys and lifeboats to bring the crew and passengers to shore. |
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They particularly like buoys, pilings, wrecks, anchored boats, flotsam, etc., and will sometimes congregate around these objects. |
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They've navigated their way through narrow channels and around dangerous shoals using the same buoys and other navigational aids. |
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Because most revenues came from import duties, he had to fashion a customs service and build buoys, beacons, and lighthouses. |
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The harbour is a lighterage port where ships are worked in stream buoys by means of lighters and pontoons for loading and offloading cargo. |
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Two new navigation buoys will be provided in the channel and alterations are to be carried out on existing navigation lights. |
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It's important, too, to allow for flexibility within a workout, be it with fins, paddles or buoys. |
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Four anchored dan buoys with radar transponders provided navigational control for the greater part of the survey. |
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Their findings will be available within days enabling the lifebuoy committee to proceed with putting more buoys in place. |
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These sediments are melted and generate magma, which buoys up to earth's surface and erupts explosively at major island arc volcanic systems. |
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Currently the new route is marked with temporary buoys and is open to vessels with a draught of less than 10 metres. |
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To safely navigate a boat, one has to be able to see and identify day marks, buoys and the occasional sign for the restaurant we want to visit. |
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Training equipment such as kickboards, pull buoys, and fins help all swimmers to isolate or emphasize certain movements. |
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Recent climate changes and the beneficial habitat of the buoys favour the introduction of exotic cirripeds. |
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Three mooring buoys at her bow and stern make it easy to find your way up and down. |
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The Garavogue is a fast-flowing treacherous river and we can do without those vandals who steal the ring buoys. |
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He spent countless hours on the water listening to pounding surf and the constant warning of bell buoys. |
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Three of the six existing Pacific coast buoys have had malfunctions in recent months. |
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He offers to sell fishermen special marker buoys to help them identify their nets and fishing spots. |
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A rush of testosterone and adrenaline buoys you through to the last rep of the last set. |
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The band's subtly supportive rhythm section is a strong element that buoys each of their numbers. |
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The lines of supporting buoys have been adopted by cormorants, gulls, guillemots, eider ducks, oystercatchers and even the odd heron. |
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It is well known that large floating objects like buoys, logs or sargassum weed often attract large numbers of fish. |
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It's encouraging to see that there are only two other dive boats on the wall and the mooring buoys are well spaced out. |
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They rigged two mooring legs on the ship's fantail, consisting of anchors, chain and heavy cable attached to two buoys. |
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In the field and on the water, restricted area boundaries can be identified by means of signposts and buoys. |
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This includes beacons, buoys and other navigation aids as well as port information, repair shops and chandlerys. |
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Oysters cemented to strings attached to a longline maintained at the surface of the water by buoys. |
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Boundaries of relaying areas should be clearly identified by buoys, poles or other fixed means. |
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Ceto was the ancient Greek goddess of sea monsters, and Carnegie's particular monsters are buoys that resemble giant macaroons. |
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They came to a little restaurant adorned with knotted ropes and red-and-white life buoys and festoons of fishing net. |
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It shows three men playing with life buoys in pools of water in the rocky shoals of a piece of coastline that had once been a major slave port. |
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Onboard lifesaving equipment included lifejackets for 50 adults and five children, two life buoys, and a 50-person inflatable liferaft. |
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So, the first responsibility is to create a safety net and position life buoys around the teen. |
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Life-saving equipment: 3 inflatable life rafts for 60 passengers, 4 floating rafts for 60 passengers, 6 life buoys, 66 life jackets. |
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On Lake Müritz, navigation must be alongside the green buoys on the west flank of the lake. |
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Typically, the perimeter of the site must be marked with yellow cautionary buoys including each change in direction or corner of the site. |
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How do you compare the daytime range of the all-season buoy versus the summer buoys in the sector? |
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Embarked on a ferryboat, the public can thus closely follow the departure, the arrival and the passages of buoys of the challenging crews. |
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The containers were being used as buoys for the longline, braided polypropylene cording. |
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Parks Canada staff appreciate receiving reports of any lights out of operation or buoys off position. |
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The cords linking the buoys to the passive gear shall be of submersible material, or shall be weighted down. |
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The Government of Lebanon requested UNIFIL to install a line of buoys in conformity with international standards. |
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As the imaginary line between the two buoys got closer, the limit of approach to the shoal became more difficult to visualize and thus determine. |
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As an attempt was made to bring the vessel to a stop with the help of this navigation instrument, the lookout reported seeing buoys ahead. |
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Lease and licence corners and those sides not abutting the navigational corridor will be marked with cautionary yellow buoys. |
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It was the dam itself, and not the running of it, which was illegal and any buoys, signage or restriction to whitewater navigation was illegal. |
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You have to stay inside the dinky little waist-deep swimming areas, with their bobbing lines of white buoys. |
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The industry fears the weakness of the pound this summer will not last, as a run of good economic news buoys up its value. |
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McKay has done standup comedy, and there are moments when she seems merely wacky, but her musical facility buoys up even her lesser moments. |
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Archimedes' principle states that a fluid buoys up a completely immersed solid by an amount equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces. |
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There are also a number of telemeter coastal meteorological stations and several meteorological buoys in the northern Gulf of Mexico. |
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However within 2 months, British coastal authorities reported 16 ships for having ignored the lightships and buoys. |
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The operation lasted 18 months. During that time the area was signalled by 2 lightships and 14 lighted buoys. |
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The CCG also has begun to apply high-performance paint to buoys in conjunction with the solarization project. |
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In both regions, the buoyage systems divide buoys into Lateral, Cardinal, and associated classes. |
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Marie did not have knowledge about the buoyage system, and because he was not informed of the use of the buoys, he did not note the anomaly. |
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The charred garlic oil — slightly sour and boomingly earthy — buoys the meaty base and lifts the entirety into heady deliciousness. |
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The buoys are brought to the base on a five year rotational basis for a complete sandblasting and painting job. |
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The association is in the planning stages of setting up mooring buoys at the more visited sites like Pantai Merah, Padar Island, and Cannibal Rock. |
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Permanent mooring buoys are provided at all diving sites, and these are colour-coded to denote whether they are for use by local dive schools or by private boats. |
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The dive site is marked by mooring buoys in the bay before Cabo Cope. |
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Each door has a small round window and on the walls hang life buoys. |
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They were also reproached for not having pulled up the buoys in the presence of the other party. |
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In some regions, ships visit the buoys yearly to verify their position and remove marine growth and fouling. |
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The courses through this stretch are well marked by lighted ranges and buoys. |
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The harbour master of the public port was never informed about the placement of the new buoys. |
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The buoys are usually attached to large sea anchors, or drogues, to reduce the errors due to the effect of the wind on the buoy itself. |
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Logs and buoys were deployed by the local inhabitants to protect certain sites. |
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Observational studies of mixing often rely on the deployment of drifting buoys that mimic the movement of water parcels. |
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My wish at this point in time would be for mooring buoys to be maintained within my area. |
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Director General Michel Trudel announced that the markers and buoys have arrived and will soon be installed. |
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My job gives me a sense of pride because my team and I provide safety to these areas through buoys and lights. |
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Kagan had already been there, and the screen showed the list of navigation buoys whose signals they were receiving and their approximate distances. |
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But, only within recent history have sailors enjoyed the peace of mind provided by bell buoys sounding their distinct tones across Cape Cod's waters. |
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That afternoon and for most of the next day, we went in and out, alongside from every direction, picked up buoys, anchored, and entered and left marina berths. |
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Radio buoys at the positions and distances indicated by letters, continuously triangulated positions as the animal moved steadily away from the array, never to return. |
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Ice buoys in the U.S. are found in navigable waterways prone to freezing. |
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The twins had 42 lifeboats, 16 metal and 26 of wood with canvas, to accomadate 1686 people, 280 more than max allowed, also there were 24 life buoys with 2212 life jackets of which 150 were for children. |
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Lighthouses and buoys mark hazards to avoid, ice breakers facilitate international trade, and the great efforts of the coast guard in search and rescue have saved many lives. |
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Keep life jackets and roped life buoys near the pool. |
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There are about a dozen important species of sessile and pedunculate barnacles that foul ships and submerged portions of marine installations, such as pier pilings, oil platforms, floats, buoys, and mooring cables. |
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That's why researchers continue to study the tides with a network of gauges to chart their ebbs and flows. That's why they track every storm with a system of weather buoys out in the Atlantic. |
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The crew of the Coast Guard vessel provided invaluable service restoring and redeploying weather and navigational buoys destroyed or lost after the hurricane. |
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The vessel drifted in a north-easterly direction towards a line of yellow spar buoys demarcating a Department of National Defence firing range danger area that the vessel had crossed earlier. |
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Using the same buoys, these scientists first detected an unusual rise in temperature below the surface in the tropical Pacific early in 1997-first signs of an El Niño. |
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There were four life buoys, two of which were mounted on each side of the wheel-house. There were also three inflatable life rafts capable of accommodating 45 persons, stowed on top of the wheel-house. |
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Two methods that work are trolling blindly, with lipped plugs, and casting jigs around structure, buoys and tidelines. |
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Consistent with the earlier ships' reports, the Maria Desgagnés' bridge crew noticed that the sailboat El Tio was zigzagging in the channel, adjoining the green buoys. |
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The blast countermined the second and third buoys and, before they had time to escape, Captain W. H. Allison and three of the crew were killed in a detonation which demolished the upper works of the ship. |
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Spar buoys being shipped out by local contractor for placement. |
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The crane was used to lift and handle buoys and their moorings. |
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The buoys were of steel construction, spar-shaped and had a conical top. |
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Ships line up on the buoys to insure they do not stray from the shipping lane. |
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There is a need for the establishment of deep ocean buoys with ocean bottom pressure sensors and seismometers, specifically designed for tsunami monitoring. |
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It is yet to be decided exactly who will contribute what, but a network of high-tech buoys anchored to the ocean floor and linked to a regional communications centre will be needed. |
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These three authorities, which today operate a total of 1,100 lighthouses, lightships, buoys, and beacons, still share the pooled user charges, known as the General Lighthouse Fund, for the whole of the British Isles. |
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The new hovercraft will be used as navigational aids tender for the placement, maintenance and removal of buoys as well as to carry out navigational aid construction and maintenance work. |
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Today, solarized lighted buoys, higher quality synthetic mooring systems, and high performance epoxy-based coatings mean that buoys can be painted every six years, and moorings changed at sea every three years. |
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Boaters will also find a secure online store to purchase boat safety equipment and accessories such as life jackets, life buoys, EPIRB rescue beacons and compasses. |
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At the end there is a complicated appendix which seeks to lay down the law on the specifications for codends and even the exact size and shape of codend buoys. |
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There, he's surrounded by bobbing buoys and sea spray. |
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The full range of the systems and services being integrated into GOOS embraces tide-gauges, vertical probes launched by commercial ships, fixed and drifting buoys and floats, bottom seismometers, and satellites. |
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No placard was posted indicating the location of life jackets, life rafts or life buoys nor were general safety instructions posted for the information of passengers. |
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A light ship and 5 light buoys were added on site but on 27 February, the Greek vessel the Nikki, sailing from Dunkirk to Alexandria, ignored the warnings and collided with the submerged wrecks. |
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The drift of the IESM buoys may be followed remotely with a position detected 20 to 40 times per day according to whether the Argos signal is linked to a GPS position or not. |
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These days many thermometers are fixed to buoys. Climatologists across the world have been working hard to estimate and account for all these potential errors. |
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The big ocean going cargoes all use satellite positioning. They do not need the minister's small buoys that are much more useful for windsurfers than these supercargoes. |
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Once out on the night fishing run, when the nets are cast, with tea-tray sized cork buoys topped with diesel-lit, naked flames as markers, we drink warm, sugary chai as the sun sets over the Arabian Sea. |
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The group also began hauling around a wooden ark festooned with blue life buoys – accusing Scott of only making room for wealthy donors, while leaving ordinary Floridians at the mercy of rising seas. |
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The pilot lost his situational awareness in that he misidentified two buoys located 1.3 miles apart, most probably as a consequence of confusing the loom of the terminal lights. |
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A main course of lamb rump with spiced couscous and hummus is a departure from convention, the lamb arranged as a raft on a sea of moist couscous, with life buoys of well-made falafel to each side. |
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Changes in the standards and approach to checking and maintaining buoys could generate considerable savings without affecting the level of service. |
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Consolidated observations from aircraft, ships, space technology, data buoys and surface devices will be used in this project during cyclone periods. |
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Adam had his huge spotting scope with him, and we quickly picked off herring and great black-backed gulls on buoys downriver. |
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It is recommended that the characters be displayed on both sides of buoys. |
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The lease number or licence number must be displayed on these buoys. |
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It is that the government has seen that there may be some infrastructure investment in bridges, wharves, canals, navigation buoys, levees, dams, docks and other types of structures. |
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More than two thousand exhibitors from around the world displayed herring nets and salmon ladders, trout rods and eel spears, life buoys and lamprey baskets. |
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Various notices had been broadcast since 20 July 1994 to the effect that some buoys, including buoy K108, had been temporarily displaced 45 m outside the channel for dredging operations. |
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A second lightship and about 10 more buoys were added. |
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These drifters operate for about two years, after which time their batteries reach the end of their life expectancy or the buoys beach themselves on the coast. |
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At 1800 hours, it fired another shell in the direction of that same fishing vessel, which then was 30 metres north of the line of buoys and 420 yards off the coast. |
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The whaling craft consists of harpoons, lances, lines, and sealskin buoys, all of their own workmanship. |
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The presence of the buoys may affect fish, marine mammals, and birds as potential minor collision risk and roosting sites. |
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Sound models that were used to define the marine mammal safety zone were verified before seismic activity commenced and buoys for bioacoustic whale monitoring were also deployed. |
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The red and green steel spars buoys that hold these lights are allowed to freeze in place over the winter, and stick up approximately eight to nine feet above the ice. |
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At 12443 on 20 October 2008, the vessel departed Poplar River with a master and two deckhands. The vessel, with a yawl in tow,4 was headed to Berens River to de-commission navigation buoys. |
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Environmental effects are similar to those of point absorber buoys, with an additional concern that organisms could be pinched in the joints. |
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The fact that no note had been made on the chart or elsewhere to indicate to the bridge team the special status of buoys HD-8 and HD-9 created ambiguity and confusion at a critical moment. |
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The unlighted spar buoys marking the channel at the Laviolette bridge were in their charted positions and the racons marking the north and south sides were working properly. |
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However, the unlighted winter spar buoys were in their charted positions. |
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As regards the signs and signals of Annex 8 of the CEVNI, unlighted buoys and unlighted bank mark boards shall be covered with reflective material. |
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In areas of less severe ice conditions the unlighted buoys used in summer may be left in place or lighted buoys may be replaced by more rugged, but unlighted, winter buoys where navigation continues. |
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Consequently, an opportunity to seek clarification from PML with respect to the purpose of the buoys and the single buoy position as plotted on the sounding sheet was lost. |
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Consequently, when the sailboat began moving back upriver, off Anse aux Bardeaux, it travelled in the navigable channel along the port buoys on the side used by ships moving downstream. |
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Another method involves mooring to offshore buoys, such as a single point mooring, and making a cargo connection via underwater cargo hoses. |
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After this, two additional patrol ships and six more buoys were installed, including one with a Racon warning transponder. |
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Barrages of shallow nets floated by long buoys can be used to ward off algea drifts, depending on wave height and current. |
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After each of us had a chance to successfully deploy our buoys, we finished the dive by following a different excursion line to a gazebo located southeast of the habitat. |
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The race course consists of a starting line and two rounding buoys. |
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They cling to every available surface, including water-pipes, boat hulls, buoys, and animals like crayfish and clams, while smothering fish spawning grounds. |
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In the 1980s, drifting buoys were used in Antarctic waters for oceanographic and climate research. |
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The course has varied slightly with buoys tried at the Needles and a requirement to leave No Man's Land Fort to port. |
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They also retrieved and redeployed navigation buoys in the Gulf of Mexico and, during the return journey to home port, along the Atlantic seaboard. |
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Moreover, because the master was conning the vessel visually and could see the buoys leading to the channel entrance, he did not seek confirmation of the vessel's position in relation to the shoal. |
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Radar turning distances were not used as the vessel was being conned visually using leading lights, the lighted buoys, and by consulting the electronic chart. |
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Navaids come in different forms such as lighthouses, beacons and buoys. |
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These devices act similarly to point absorber buoys, with multiple floating segments connected to one another and are oriented perpendicular to incoming waves. |
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It could have been a good plan except I proved oddly adept at navigating my way between buoys while an instructor issued orders through a loud hailer. |
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Yesterday the stealth sub, skippered by Cmdr Andy Coles, spent 10 hours in full view of passers-by after sailing past simple buoys that warn sailors of shallow water. |
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Nor even the fact that a network of 3,175 bathythermograph buoys have found that the heat content of the ocean has been dropping for the last five years. |
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One of the most successful systems uses bottom pressure sensors, attached to buoys, which constantly monitor the pressure of the overlying water column. |
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He was useful to the man, for his sharp young eyes could pick up net or trawl buoys, white with a stripe of scarlet, far quicker than the rum-bleared eyes of his stepfather. |
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These buoys were subject to potential movement by storms or enemy action. |
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This new, second-generation Deep Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis system consists of pressure-sensitive tsunameters on the seafloor, and buoys on the ocean surface. |
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Blubbing Natalie moaned she felt 'faint' and 'dizzy' while trying to free 10 buoys from Slither River as snakes were released into the water around her. |
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