Sentence examples for vessel strike from inspiring English sources

Charne, who raised the alarm after he felt the vessel strike ice, said: "I thought the ship was going down.

Vessel strike and fishing gear trauma has been documented in bowheads, but at a much lower rate than in right whales.

Vessel strikes are one of the leading human-related causes of whale deaths.

Around midnight, the vessel struck a reef, releasing roughly 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound over several days.

Continued threats to Yangtze finless porpoises include bycatch in unregulated and unselective fishing, habitat degradation through dredging, pollution and noise, vessel strikes and water development.

The Chinese ship that freed dozens of people from a Russian vessel stricken in the Antarctic has itself become trapped by ice.

The report examined a wide range of potential threats to the species, including coastal development, environmental contaminants, disease, man-made ocean noise, net entanglement and vessel strikes.

How do the subtle changes in behavior that I am studying stack up against the tangible threats of vessel strikes and entanglement?

While the Western Arctic bowhead population has been recovering steadily in recent decades, North Atlantic right whales remain highly endangered because of persistent lethal and sublethal vessel strikes and frequent entanglement in commercial fishing gear.

The witness was on a tugboat and said he saw Captain Gansas running across the top of the ferry -- from the Manhattan pilothouse to the Staten Island pilothouse -- after the vessel struck the pier.

Creating mandatory regulation to protect whales from vessel strikes would require either the Coast Guard or NOAA Fisheries to draft a proposed rule and shepherd it through an interagency approval process.