Sentence examples for tow cables from inspiring English sources

The first tow cables snapped under the strain and the second attempt was aborted for fear of injury to the crews if they snapped again.

"The towfish collided with a mud volcano which rises 2,200 metres from the seafloor resulting in the vehicle's tow cable breaking.

A boat that capsized after turning into a tugboat's tow cable, killing two passengers on Saturday night, had apparently ignored the tugboat's warning blasts from its horn and its light shining on the cable, the Coast Guard said yesterday.

For a 180° turn and ship-turning radius less than the length of the tow cable, the vehicle never reached the steady-state turning depth.

The towed, bottom tending camera sled features a GigE Vision™ camera with a 1360 × 1024 pixel sensor that streams 16 MB/s of image data to the tow vessel over commercial off-the-shelf Gigabit Ethernet hardware and an armored fiber optic tow cable.

The destroyer attempted to tow Hyperion, but the tow cable broke twice and was ordered to sink her after Ilex took off the crew.

The array was tethered to the vessel by a single umbilical consisting of a c.17 mm diameter reinforced tow cable rated for 140 kg load, and incorporating 22 cores for power to the camera, lights and CTD, and to return the video and CTD data signals to the surface.

Marine compound mooring and towing cables are usually formed by cables, chains, buoys and underwater bodies.

They had done 20 when the towing cable came loose from the cart that carries the fuel.

As Adrian releases the towing cable, the engine noise of the 'tug' fades and the buffeting from its propellers stops.

In Paris, Jimmy Vicaut, the rising French sprinter, is using a machine with a towing cable that attaches to his waist and pulls him down the track during training.