Sentence examples for thick bunker from inspiring English sources

The oil tanker sank last Friday, with some 2m litres of thick bunker fuel on board.

The oil tanker sank last Friday, with about 2m litres of thick bunker fuel on board.

They included a thick bunker coat, a mask, an emergency rope-and-pulley system, a hose and, on his back, a Scott air pack — 75 pounds of gear, on a sunny August day, in a burning building.

But T. L. Garrett, a vice president of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, said greenhouse gases created by distilling the thick bunker fuel into higher grades would probably exceed the amount kept from the atmosphere by reductions in emissions.

The environmental groups suggested two ways to cut ship-generated emissions: forcing ships to curb their speed and to change to a higher-grade fuel than the thick "bunker" fuel that is commonly used.

Two of the five fuel tanks on the ship began to leak fuel onto the beach, eventually spilling approximately 70000 USgal of thick "bunker C" fuel oil and diesel onto the beach and into the water.

Nicklaus realised at Muirfield in 1966 that the thick rough and deep bunkers meant precision, not his usual power game, was going to be the key.

Wind is one of the main defences of Open courses and controlling the ball in the breeze is crucial if you are to avoid the thick rough and deep bunkers.

Using bait-casting reels with forty-pound-test wire leaders and heavy-test monofilament backing, we tossed treble hooks baited with thick chunks of bunker into water about sixty feet deep.

Its walls were up to 7 m thick and the bunker's working levels descended 6 m below ground.

Both of the renovations were challenged by the bunkers' thick concrete walls.