It was far too dense for the ship to break through and, as the authorities would discover in the coming days, also too dense for even bigger icebreakers.
This signal is powerful enough to transmit through parking garage and tunnel walls, dense foliage, and ship containers, but police cars, airplanes, and helicopters must be equipped with special computer equipment to track the signal.
In such cases, options for shipping a dense form of sugars include (1) pretreated biomass with enzyme addition, (2) lignocellulosic sugar syrup, and (3) lignocellulosic sugar solid.
Just before Christmas Day, strong south-easterly winds began pushing the sea ice towards the Antarctic coastline, quickly forming a dense mass around the ship and pinning us in place.
For example, engineers from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries have recently developed an air lubrication system that separates water from the surface of ships to reduce drag up to 80%; gas is not as dense as water, so the ships has less friction and glides more easily.
Icebreakers were trying to free the ship but the dense ice floes have proved too difficult to get through for both Chinese and Australian vessels that were sent to help.
Fourteen local, state and federal agencies are now involved with the investigation, recovery and cleanup of the tanker's payload, consisting of diesel fuel and dense oil used to power ships.
Vargas Llosa's sympathetic portrait is dense with historical detail — no ship or hotel goes unnamed — but skates over major turning points in a sentence or two, as when Casement first meets one of his mentors: "Afterward they both would say this meeting had been the most important of their lives".
Bad weather is still hampering efforts to reach a scientific mission ship trapped in dense pack ice in the Antarctic.
A Chinese icebreaker is expected to reach a scientific mission ship trapped in dense pack ice off East Antarctica since Christmas Day.
