"We know there is a tremendous amount of debris, and the possibility that the waterways surrounding this area contain human remains," Mr. Barbour said.
"When I came to the surface, there was nothing except a tremendous amount of debris and many, many people swimming in the water.
"It would have been easier to cut it up in sections, but it'd have produced a tremendous amount of debris," said Joseph Farrell Jr., chief executive of Resolve Marine Group, based in the United States, which had also bid to salvage the Costa Concordia.
Although the floodwaters have retreated in most places, they have left a tremendous amount of debris and mud in their wake.
Currently, a tremendous amount of space debris in Earth's orbit imperils operational spacecraft.
And stars are exploding more frequently than elsewhere, the supernovas emitting tremendous shock waves and a blizzard of debris.
This was the "black rain" that formed as a mix of irradiated debris from the fires whipped together by the tremendous heat and air currents fueled by these raging firestorms throughout the city.
Debris of all sorts flew through the air at tremendous speeds.
However, under extreme conditions, the river always has the characteristics of tremendous variation of flow discharge, high sediment concentration, large quantity of floating debris, and so on, which make the traditional river discharge measurement methods and instruments difficult to implement.
Landslides, debris avalanches and flows are common events in mountainous regions, causing tremendous damages to people and infrastructures.
