Sentence examples for shipping hazards from inspiring English sources

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.

"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.

We believe we did drop in between 50 and 60 meters of water in a place where it is not a hazard to shipping and not a hazard to navigation".

The project, known as Ships for Seismic Hazards Investigation of Puget Sound, was carried out by the Geological Survey along with 10 other institutions, including the University of Washington, University of Texas at El Paso, Oregon State University and the Geological Survey of Canada.

The scenarios are based on a recently performed risk assessment of passenger ship evacuation and can be related to actual accident scenarios, covering the major hazards passenger ships are exposed to.