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Flats boat with poling platform. Flats boats are a category of boat designed primarily for fishing in protected, shallow water areas [1] often referred to as "flats" by anglers. [2] While the name may be misconstrued to mean the boat hull is flat, this is not generally the case and include various v-hull designs. [3]
A typical requirement for indoor facilities is that they must provide 5 metres (16 ft) clearance above the highest diving board or platform, so that divers do not hit a ceiling structure. [1] The competitive sport of diving has included the 10-meter dive as an Olympic event since the 1904 Summer Olympics. By 1837, six indoor pools with diving ...
It was the use of these greenwood poles gave rise to the term "poling." Care must be taken to avoid removing too much of the oxygen from the anode copper, as this will cause other impurities to change from their oxide to metallic states and they will remain in solid solution in the copper, reduce its conductivity and change its physical properties.
Preston Poling won third place in the miniatures competition's "I Did it My Way" category at the 2024 state fair. The piece was later removed. His miniature piece won, then was removed from the fair.
Pole switching (also called "poling") Detail of a photo showing the poling pocket on the corner of a freight car in the 1930s A method of switching cars on adjacent tracks in which a pole is positioned between the locomotive and car, then the locomotive pushes the car using the pole. The pole is fitted into poling pockets on the locomotive and ...
Poling (piezoelectricity), applying a strong electric field across piezoelectric materials Poling (horse) , in equestrianism, hitting a horse on the legs to encourage it to clear a jump Poling System , rating system used to select college football national championship teams from 1924 to 1984
Installed in 1988, the total weight of the platform was 77,000 tons, of which the steel jacket comprises 49,375 tons. [2] At the time of its construction it was the third tallest freestanding structure ever built – shorter than only the CN Tower and the Ostankino Tower – and the tallest in the United States, being 6 ft (1.8 m) taller than ...
Baldpate is a 579.7 metres (1,902 ft) [1] offshore compliant tower oil platform near the coast of Louisiana, owned and operated by Hess Corporation. It was the first freestanding compliant tower to be built following the Lena platform which was a guyed compliant tower. It is the second tallest structure built in water after the Petronius (oil ...