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English: Illustration of a tension leg mooring for a floating platform. Left-hand side: free-floating, cables (red) not under tension Right-hand side: cables have been tensioned ballasted floating structure (grey) underwater cables (red) connect seabed anchors (light grey) with lower legs
Water surface searches are procedures carried out on or over the surface of a body of water with the purpose of finding lost vessels, persons, or floating objects, which may use one or more of a variety of search patterns depending on the target of the search, as the direction and rate of drift vary depending on the characteristics of the target and the water and weather conditions at the time.
Diagram illustrating Proposition 8 of On Floating Bodies I.. In the first part of book one, Archimedes establishes various general principles, such as that a solid denser than a fluid will, when immersed in that fluid, be lighter (the "missing" weight found in the fluid it displaces).
A floating sheerleg (also: shearleg) is a floating water vessel with a crane built on shear legs. Unlike other types of crane vessel , it is not capable of rotating its crane independently of its hull.
Floating grounds can be dangerous if they are caused by failure to properly ground equipment that was designed to require grounding because the chassis can be at a very different potential from that of any nearby organisms, who then get an electric shock upon touching it. Live chassis TVs, also known as hot chassis, where the set's ground is ...
A-frame derrick. An A-frame derrick is one in which the boom is hinged from a cross member between the bottom ends of two upright members spread apart at the lower ends and joined at the top; the boom point secured to the junction of the side members, and the side members are braced or guyed from this junction point.
Salvinia natans (commonly known as floating fern, [4] floating watermoss, [5] floating moss, or commercially, water butterfly wings) [6] is an annual floating aquatic fern, which can appear superficially similar to moss.
The basic idea is to capture a 'floating' panel within a sturdy frame, as opposed to techniques used in making a slab solid wood cabinet door or drawer front, the door is constructed of several solid wood pieces running in a vertical or horizontal direction [1] with exposed endgrains. Usually, the panel is not glued to the frame but is left to ...