Sentence examples for ballast system from inspiring English sources

This is not the first report of the Deepwater Horizon experiencing problems with its ballast system.

It was possible that the ship's ballast system was inadequate, and its narrow design may have contributed to its demise.

Should a diver need help beyond the reach of safety divers, a counter ballast system is activated, bringing the plate and diver to the surface.

The mechanical problems discovered by investigators found problems with the rig's ballast system that they said could directly affect the stability of the ship.

They indicate that there were problems with the Deepwater Horizon's ballast system that was responsible for keeping the rig afloat and stable.

They are characterized by a superstructure consisting of railway tracks sitting directly on steel plate girders without any ballast system.

In a 2009 audit, Mr. Bertone said, BP ordered the rig to go to the shipyard by early 2011 for work on its engines, ballast systems, thrusters and drilling equipment.

Between the ship's sheer heft and its ballast systems, it doesn't roll untowardly, but it's enough for Prine to occasionally end up singing further away from his microphone than he intended.

The company's audit identified problems with the rig's engines, ballast systems, thrusters and drilling equipment, and as a result, BP scheduled the rig for a shipyard visit in early 2011.

This paper reports the step-by-step procedures for identification of the rail-sleeper-ballast system with the use of the measured vibration data of an in situ sleeper on an existing ballasted track.

Based on the field test data and the modified modeling method, this study puts forward the time-domain Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC -based Bayesian MCMC -baseding and model class selection method for identification of the rail-sleeper-Bayesiansystemodel