Sentence examples for shipping accident from inspiring English sources

Whether he is writing about one man's painful divorce or the loss of an entire family in a shipping accident, Petterson's investigations of human grief are tender, powerful and, paradoxically, uplifting.

Best practices caused Exxon to work harder convincing us that the Valdez shipping accident could never happen again than explaining why the company had started and then shut down Office Systems.

A cost model that incorporates all costs of a shipping accident has been established and oil tanker spill accidents have been further elaborated as a special case of such accidents.

Ebbesmeyer spent his lifetime studying ocean currents, including the aftermath of a shipping accident involving thousands of Nike runners being discharged into the Pacific during a storm.

The researchers hope to use acoustics to better track the animals and save them from shipping accidents.

It serves our environmental interests, given that Australian mariners are familiar with our coasts and that all major shipping accidents that have damaged the environment in recent years have involved foreign vessels.

It is threatened by climate change (which increases coral bleaching), pollution from onshore floods, overfishing, shipping accidents (many commercial vessels prefer to go through the reef rather than round it), dumping of coal dredge spoil, cyclones, coral disease and, not least, oil spills.

The loss of Arctic sea ice cover, due to climate change, has spurred a sharp rise in shipping traffic – as well as coast guard rescue missions – and increased the risks of oil spills, shipping accidents, and pollution, much to the apprehension of native communities who make their living on the ice.

The government is required on its implementation of the plan to report to Unesco's World Heritage Centre in less than two weeks and appears to have done nothing on the increasing risk from shipping accidents, said Ariane Wilkinson, a lawyer at Environmental Justice Australia.

It is the latest in a series of fatal shipping accidents involving migrants seeking a better life in Europe.

It is well reported in the literature that more than 80% of shipping accidents are attributed to Human/organisational Error.