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A moon pool is an equipment deployment and retrieval feature used by marine drilling platforms, drillships, diving support vessels, fishing vessels, marine research and underwater exploration or research vessels, and underwater habitats. [1] It is also known as a wet porch. [2]
April 24, 2000. ( 2000-04-24) The first victim is found dead in a room with candles that draw the symbol of "DEEP BLUE". Everybody tries to escape from the order of Kindaichi. 129. "Murderous Deep Blue File 4". Transliteration: " Satsuriku no Dīpuburū Fairu 4 " ( Japanese: 「殺戮のディープブルー」ファイル4) May 1, 2000.
Routine use of dry docks is for the "graving" i.e. the cleaning, removal of barnacles and rust, and re-painting of ships' hulls. Some fine-tuning of the ship's position can be done by divers while there is still some water left to manoeuvre it about.
Cross section of a vessel with a single ballast tank at the bottom. A ballast tank is a compartment within a boat, ship or other floating structure that holds water, which is used as ballast to provide hydrostatic stability for a vessel, to reduce or control buoyancy, as in a submarine, to correct trim or list, to provide a more even load distribution along the hull to reduce structural ...
The guys' assignment to clean out the warehouse turns into an all-day ping-pong tournament when they uncover an old table among the junk. Phil takes John Luke and Cole fishing and tries to get some insight into the teenage mind.
Ballard Locks. / 47.66556°N 122.39722°W / 47.66556; -122.39722. The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, or Ballard Locks, is a complex of locks at the west end of Salmon Bay in Seattle, Washington's Lake Washington Ship Canal, between the neighborhoods of Ballard to the north and Magnolia to the south. [2] : 2 [3] [4] : 6.
Indonesia's coral reefs are located in the heart of the Coral Triangle and have fallen victim to destructive fishing, tourism and bleaching. Data from LIPI in 1998 found that only 7 percent is in excellent condition, 24 percent is in good condition and approximately 69 percent is in poor-to-fair condition.
Crews set off a chain of carefully placed explosives Monday to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, and with a boom and a splash, the ...
A diving support vessel is a ship that is used as a floating base for professional diving projects. [1] Basic requirements are the ability to keep station accurately and reliably throughout a diving operation, often in close proximity to drilling or production platforms, for positioning to degrade slowly enough in deteriorating conditions to ...
Shiplift. A shiplift is a modern alternative for a slipway, a floating dry dock or a graving dry dock. A shiplift is used to dry dock and launch ships. It consists of a structural platform that is lifted and lowered exactly vertically, synchronously by a number of hoists. First, the platform is lowered underwater, then the ship is floated above ...