Sentence examples for maritime work from inspiring English sources
For the wider population there was little relief or improvement, and emigration from the islands became the norm: faced with the prospect of drought and starvation at home, the poorest Cabo Verdeans commonly traveled south to work as agricultural labourers picking bananas and cocoa beans in Sao Tome and Principe; others found maritime work on whaling ships.
The perilous marine environment poses the highest risk to all maritime work.
It is therefore imperative to reduce the risk associated with maritime work by using some analytical methods other than engineering techniques.
The present paper aims to illustrate a general criterion useful to correct wave forecast, i.e. to provide an engineering tool able to assess the safety of the temporal window needed to complete a specified maritime work.
However, within the frame of maritime work management it is necessary to forecast – with an acceptable probability of error – whether or not the significant wave height at a given location will exceed a prefixed threshold within a specified temporal window, so as to assess the safety of the specified temporal window with respect to the activity to be carried out.
Launch driving, and maritime work in general, consists of a very close-knit community.
Hydraulic filling is widely practiced in maritime works, and it has also been used for embankment dams.
Aided by the characteristics of the material they employed, the ancients constructed maritime works on a scale that is certainly remarkable to this day.
It is without doubt, a random collection; everything from French bronze dogs, quite a few maritime works and photographic prints by Sebastião Salgado.
It recently dusted off Longfellow's reputation after a half-century of neglect; it will sponsor a reading of maritime works July 17 at the South Street Seaport; and in September it will revive the writings of Dawn Powell, the urbane, underappreciated New York novelist whose prose packs Dorothy Parker pungency.
Wave forecasting may represent a useful tool for safety assessment of maritime works and activities.
