Sentence examples for shipping hazard from inspiring English sources

"It must be the biggest shipping hazard in the Gulf".

He had a great ambition, for instance, to be the first to surf an infamous shipping hazard known as the Potato Patch, several miles off the Golden Gate.

Across the Gate, which is a magnificent stretch of water running from the Pacific Ocean into San Francisco Bay, giant waves were breaking in a shipping hazard known as the Potato Patch.

The accident of elevation marks the difference between its existence as an unclaimable seamount — no more than a shipping hazard — and as a potentially hotly contested piece of actual, dry-land real estate.

Recent LNG marine shipping hazard studies have discounted BLEVE hazards associated with LNG vessels.

A northeast wind, called the bora, causes rough seas and creates shipping hazards in the gulf.

These numbers take into account limitations like environmental concerns and the need to avoid shipping hazards, Mr. Helweg-Larsen said.

Pilgrim felt his feet transparent on the deck, a sailor treading uplands sixty fathoms back; saw nettled deer tracks pooling, inch by sodden inch, into a whaler's channel; inlands islanded and highlands turned to shipping hazards, fellsides lessened to a knuckled string; the sly brine loosing peat from longbones, locking snails into the bedrock.

Such ships are at hazard from groundings and explosions, but their sinking from collisions is very rare.

The history of Highway 140 begins in May 1966, when the St . Lawrence Seaway Authorityreceived Federal approval for the Welland Bypass, a 13.4 km channel that would serve to bypass the canal through downtown Welland, where several crossings proved to be a hazard for shipping traffic and the shipping traffic an impediment to pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

And it is still a hazard to shipping.