Sentence examples for rig off from inspiring English sources

On one occasion, his pelvis was crushed by a crane on a rig off the California coast.

On April 20 a massive explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig off the Louisiana coast of the U.S. precipitated the largest oil spill in history.

Drawing on a nonfictional disaster in which an oil rig off Newfoundland capsized, killing eighty-four MooreMoore's novel captures the consequences of grief in one family.

The spill has also scrambled politics in Florida, where beaches may be fouled by the growing oil slick oozing from beneath the Deepwater Horizon rig off Louisiana.

The activists were on board Greenpeace's boat the Arctic Sunrise and were protesting against drilling at an oil rig off Russia's northern shores.

Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy said drilling was suspended at its Leiv Eiriksson rig off the coast of Greenland after 18 Greenpeace protesters breached a restricted area.

But it only took a confused trucker about an hour to wreck part of the cherished site taking his big rig off-roading into the desert, tearing over the Nazca Lines, and leaving "deep scars" on the historic artwork, NPR reports.

One afternoon, Burtynsky decided to photograph two disused oil rigs off Lagos Island.

If tourists don't like rigs off the coast of Florida, they can go fly fishing in Wyoming.

Up to 150 were feared dead.Troubled NigeriaNearly 100 expatriate oil-workers were held hostage by their local colleagues on oil rigs off the coast of Nigeria.

Over five to 15 years researchers surveyed marine life in the vicinity of 16 oil and gas rigs off the Californian coast.