Sentence examples for navigation hazard from inspiring English sources

Muscle Shoals, section of the Tennessee River, in Colbert and Lauderdale counties, northwestern Alabama, U.S.; it was formerly a navigation hazard but is now submerged by dams.

The shallow waters on the Atlantic side of the islands have long been a navigation hazard, especially Diamond Shoals to the southeast of Cape Hatteras.

A similar line corresponding to a second bearing will intersect the first and fix the position of the vessel relative to the navigation hazard, as shown in the figure.

In total, the Curiosity rover has 17 cameras, which are used for navigation, hazard avoidance and scientific analysis.

The roadmaps for the procurement of technologies required for the first mission elements of the above strategy have been elaborated through their main building blocks, i.e. Visual navigation, Hazard detection and avoidance; Sample acquisition, processing and containment system; Surface mobility elements; Tele-robotic and autonomous control systems; and Storable propulsion modules and equipment.

She did not suffer any ill effects as a result of this incident however, which is mentioned in journals of the time only for its noteworthiness as a navigation hazard to other shipping.

Most are old cargo vessels and barges that sank or were illegally scuttled by owners and are now navigation hazards.

To avoid any navigation hazards marked on the charts, a mariner needs to know the vessel's exact position.

The main port, called Um Qasr, is about 30 miles south of the Basra city center and is connected to the Persian Gulf by a waterway littered with nearly 300 sunken navigation hazards, including 82 large ships, said Michael J. McCormick, the transportation attaché at the United States Embassy in Baghdad, who was along on the trip.

"Thousands of these anchors are in our waterways," creating navigation hazards, Hahn said.

Additional man-made navigation hazards encountered once within the lagoon included lines that have been fixed between some of the patch reefs in the southern region of the lagoon, possibly to discourage unauthorized boat access to the larger lagoon.