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2. Pontoon bridge - Wikipedia

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   A pontoon bridge (or ponton bridge), also known as a floating bridge, uses floats or shallow- draft boats to support a continuous deck for pedestrian and vehicle travel. The buoyancy of the supports limits the maximum load that they can carry. Most pontoon bridges are temporary and used in wartime and civil emergencies.

3. Hood Canal Bridge - Wikipedia

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   Location in Washington. The Hood Canal Bridge (officially William A. Bugge Bridge) is a floating bridge in the northwest United States, located in western Washington. [2] It carries State Route 104 across Hood Canal in Puget Sound and connects the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas. At 7,869 feet (1.490 mi; 2.398 km) in length (floating portion ...

4. Very large floating structure - Wikipedia

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   Very large pontoon-type floating structures are often called ‘mega-floats'. As a rule, the mega-float is a floating structure having at least one length dimension greater than 60 metres (200 ft) Horizontally large floating structures can be from 500 to 5,000 metres (1,600 to 16,400 ft) in length and 100 to 1,000 metres (330 to 3,280 ft) in ...

5. List of pontoon bridges - Wikipedia

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   Completed 2008. Spans 5,153.277 feet (1,571 m). Located near New Amsterdam in Guyana. Demerara Harbour Bridge. Completed 1978. Spans 6,074 feet (1,851 m). Located immediately south of Georgetown, Guyana, it is constructed with steel pontoon units and is the fourth longest floating bridge in the world.

6. Shackled before grieving relatives, father, son face judge in ...

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   Family members watched Friday as Colt Gray, 14, and his father, Colin Gray, 54, appeared separately to hear their charges in a high school shooting.

7. Auxiliary floating drydock - Wikipedia

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   Auxiliary Floating Docks, Light (AFDL), also known as Auxiliary Floating Docks (AFD), were 288 ft (88 m) long, had a beam of 64 ft (20 m), and draft of 3 ft 3 in (0.99 m) empty and 31 ft 4 in (9.55 m) flooded to load a ship. A normal crew was 60 men. AFDL displacement was 1,200 tons and could lift 1,900 tons.