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...For waterfront and estuary dwellers, the Iguana negates the need for a towing or launching vehicle, meaning you can climb in, turn it on and drive down directly to the water’s edge....
...Evergreen Marine, which operates the Ever Given under a Panamanian flag, told the Financial Times in an email that the ship was “suspected to have met with a sudden gust of strong wind, which caused the...
...The five-day operation in Macquarie Harbour, a remote inlet 170km from Hobart, continued on Friday with hopes a further 12 to 20 pilot whales could be rescued by towing them out to deep water....
...Nick Sloane, of US marine salvage firm Resolve Marine, has suggested towing an iceberg across the 1,000 nautical miles of ocean separating Cape Town from the edge of Antarctica....
...The night before our meeting, he gave a talk at the Plymouth Aquarium and met the city’s mayor to discuss marine protection zones....
...“Things have changed profoundly,” says Damon Stanwell-Smith, a marine biologist who first visited Antarctica more than 25 years ago....
...He is constantly on the move, towing around other vessels and the material needed for civil engineering projects — including wind farm construction....
...Then, this year, regulators prevented Shell from drilling two wells close to each other simultaneously, because of concerns about the effect on marine life....
...The Swell was built in 1912 in Victoria, 20 miles south of here, and spent the next 90 years towing gravel barges, pulling clippers and hauling steel, first as a coal-fired steam tug, then under diesel power...
...Thomas Fremantle’s ship, he writes to his beloved Betsey, is given the melancholy honour of towing the Victory home after Trafalgar, pausing only in Gibraltar to re-pickle Nelson’s body in fresh brandy....
...Much of the Coast Guard report focuses on the decisions taken on board the Aiviq, the tug towing the rig, which was owned by Edison Chouest Offshore, a marine transport company....
...This figure could rise however if the government seeks compensation for damages to the seabed and marine life caused by the wreck in a maritime reserve....
...Both proposals involve floating the wreck and towing it away, rather than cutting it up where it rests, half-submerged, in a marine sanctuary off the island of Giglio....
...We fin slowly out to sea, Spencer towing the SMB. Below is a sandy, weedy bottom. At about 3m depth, he suspends a weighted wooden target fish from the SMB....
...speed (6.4 knots), as well as the precise location of every shoal, sandbar, buoy and rock ledge, not to mention the constantly shifting position of other ships, barges, fishing boats, floating debris, marine...
...Suddenly the cars became decidedly less interesting and the next time I rented a 9-5 it felt like I was towing a trailer of timber....
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