Sentence examples for anchor damage from inspiring English sources

"If we protect reefs from overfishing, anchor damage, coastal development, and other more manageable effects, there is diversity out there that will help [corals] hold on," he says.

Even though the anchor damage has been caused by steel failure, a decrease in shear capacity was observed with the lower strength concrete.

Physical damage to coral colonies consistent with anchor damage or other evidence of anthropogenic activity was also recorded by site.

The intention of the PSSA proposal is to protect the benthic habitat on Saba Bank from anchor damage.

More directly, MPAs could prevent destructive fishing practices, anchor damage, and terrestrial run-off if they include a terrestrial component that reduces sedimentation and nutrient pollution.

Gorgonian octocorals are vulnerable to anchor damage, and they are common and conspicuous in shallow water (15 50 m) around the banks.

At the end of October 1914 she was struck by her sister which jammed her kedge anchor, damaged her hull and delayed her trials to late November 1914.

As if that weren't enough, pollution, over-fishing and boat-anchor damage also destroys reefs.

The existing scaffold anchors damage the surrounding insulation layers subsequently decreases the stability of scaffold anchors.

"The anchoring damages the sea grass, but there is a group who ignore the ban," responded a spokesman for the Maddalena archipelago national park, which manages the islands.

Robin Waite and Yap Films, Inc. are thanked for providing images of anchor chain damage.