Sentence examples for floating pack from inspiring English sources

While weather forecasts were used in oil rig operations, they were not yet being used to forecast the motion of floating pack ice and icebergs.

Nimrod, under her own power, proceeded southward into the floating pack ice, heading for the Barrier Inlet where six years earlier Discovery had paused to allow Scott and Shackleton to take experimental balloon flights.

With data collected over a two-month period in 2008, Durner and his colleagues chronicled the bear's eastward journey along the Alaska coast, during which she made that incredible nine-day, 426-mile swim from land to floating pack ice over the sea's deep waters.

Often referred to as Bolger boxes, many were criticized as being out-and-out ugly — "They looked like floating packing crates," Dan Segal, a boating writer, said — and Mr. Bolger acknowledged as much.

The hydrodynamic behavior and denitrification capacity of a downflow self-cleaning moving bed bioreactor (MBBR) using floating packed-bed carriers were investigated.

The northern polar region consists mainly of floating and pack ice, 7 10 feet (2 3 m) thick, floating on the Arctic Ocean and surrounded by land masses.

You aren't walking on land where the path is set but on a floating ice pack, which constantly moves in unpredictable ways, often taking you in the opposite direction to the one you had planned.

She can keep floating above the pack indefinitely as the celebrity star of a full-time reality show where she gets to call all the shots.

The fragile material is captured floating in a pack, mid-burst, and as a shower of multicolored droplets.

BioShock Infinite, a deep first-person shooter game set in a floating city and packed with cultural references, is in large part the brainchild of Irrational's creative director, Ken Levine.

Past efforts by South Korea to send religious material to the North have included the floating of balloons packed with biblical passages across the border.