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1. “All thrusters reverse and acquiring exit buoy guidance signals
2. It was a large warning buoy about fifty metres to leeward
3. “That’s a buoy
4. The swim out to the buoy was arduous for them all
5. The buoy had steadily grown in size and now they could see the top of the Dawn riding in the shallow troughs as the waves broke over it
6. “This vessel is inbound towards the port of Charleston and we arrive at the sea buoy in twenty minutes
7. At Drake's Inlet, tied to a buoy, we were nourished, listened to, and doused with sympathy
8. buoy out in the bay
9. At the sea buoy, she veered in a sweeping turn, coming around towards the south
10. They examined some of the debris up close, and placed a marker buoy at the site, careful to match the velocity of the buoy with the wreckage, which still had its original momentum plus a few new ones
11. The surface buoy then radios the information to the PTWC via the
12. The buoy tender went aground off Michigan"s Keweenaw Point in the turbulent, icy waters of Lake Superior while servicing a navigational aid, and eventually sank
13. The names of many brave lighthouse keepers remain etched on the hulls of buoy tenders called, in their honor, Keeper Class cutters, built by the Marinette Marine Corporation of Marinette, Wisconsin
14. Steam cutters continued the missions begun by the sailing ships, including channel buoy placement, and the transportation of food, water and other supplies to lighthouses (Chapelle, pp
15. Midchannel buoy: buoy with red and white stripes which marks the middle of a channel
16. The former Coast Guard officer traced the history of the construction of “USCG buoy tenders at 3 Duluth shipyards during the 1940s: the Woodrush, Woodbine, Acacia, Firebush, and others” (“Fleischmann,” April 2005)
17. Several 180-foot buoy tenders were constructed in the shipyards of Duluth and Superior, and were operational in 1942-43
18. The buoy tenders (180s) performed domestic security and overseas combat operations during the war
19. The new Great Lakes Ice Breaker (GLIB) Mackinaw (WLBB-30), a 240-foot buoy tender/icebreaker, replaced the 60-year-old 290-foot cutter of the same name (Mosley, “The Newest Icebreaker…,” 2005)
20. The crew attempted to hook on to one of the three-ton ice-covered buoys to hoist it to the deck of the buoy tender
21. One buoy marked the point where lake carriers turned into the Duluth entry and sailed under the historic Aerial Lift Bridge in the Twin Ports Harbor
22. The second buoy marked a dangerous shallow area adjacent to a grain storage elevator
23. Each buoy had an estimated $10,000 replacement cost in the 1980s
24. The namesake of the new class of 16 seagoing buoy tenders was scheduled for duty on the East Coast
25. In addition to building the 225-foot Juniper Class buoy tenders, Marinette Marine received a federal contract to build the new Keeper Class shore and inland cutters
26. Coast Guard Buoy Tender Conference
27. The conference honored the 45th Anniversary of the five Great Lakes 108-foot buoy tenders constructed in Duluth during World War II by the Marine Iron and Ship Building Company and Zenith Dredge Company
28. The buoy tenders Acacia, Mariposa, and Mesquite from the Michigan ports of Grand Haven, Detroit, and Charlevoix, respectively, were led into the harbor by the Duluth-based USCGC Sundew
29. Some of the 180-foot buoy tenders served in the World War II Pacific, and provided access to islands eventually liberated from Japanese troops (Stodghill, “Reunion Will Buoy Former Cutter Crews,” 1994)
30. Louis district and command responsibility for 19 buoy tenders that patrolled the tributaries and main channels of the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers
31. In May 2004 the 60-year-old 180-foot buoy tender Sundew was decommissioned
32. Morgan was a World War II correspondent aboard the USCGC Balsam, a buoy tender built in Duluth in 1942
33. The Balsam crew rescued downed pilots and bomber crews in treacherous reefs and heavy surf and sea conditions (Morgan, “A Coast Guard Buoy Tender…,”
34. to grab the ring buoy
35. The ring buoy had always been perched
36. Cutters armed with M-60 machine guns included the 140-foot icebreaking tugs Katmai Bay, Mobile Bay, Bristol Bay, Neah Bay, and Biscayne Bay; and the newer icebreakers and buoy tenders Mackinaw, Alder and Hollyhock (Tasikas, “Rush-Bagot…,” 2006)
37. With the new weaponry on Coast Guard vessels, training aboard the cutters has expanded beyond traditional SAR, law enforcement, and buoy tending practice
38. “A Coast Guard Buoy Tender: A Mighty Midget
39. Why else make her the heir to the farm, why else the small secret account in her name? If all besides failed her she had the utter assurance of her father's love to buoy her up
40. To recognize one’s pots, there was a buoy attached by a line and marked with the license number of the boat
41. From our depth meter we would figure out how far the bottom was and measure out that much line so that the buoy would just be at the surface at high tide
42. When the crab pot was then dropped overboard it would carry the line with buoy attached down under water
43. The buoy would now be several feet below the surface and only visible if one knew where exactly to look in the crystal clear water
44. When the zinc was completely dissolved the loops of line which were held together by the zinc would be released and if everything worked out right, the buoy would now float on the surface and be readily visible when we came back to retrieve the pots
45. It was not always possible for us to get back when we knew that the buoy was going to be released either because of the weather or because we were working
46. They were either taken by poachers who passed by before we did or the line got tangled in some way and the buoy never made it to the surface
47. So I swam 500 meters out into the ocean, around a buoy and 500 meters back to the beach
48. And frustration paralyses the self and punctures the buoy of joy
49. Kim waited until the second buoy was being placed in the water where the Diving Platform had once stood, by the Oriental - and then sped away as fast as he could
50. The harbour master, a round, red buoy of a man with lank, shoulder-length hair that looked like it had tar in it, looked askance at the slight, nerdy looking figure before him
1. Buoyed by this, I go on
2. The easy initial victory had buoyed the villager’s spirits and, although Axel and his fellow officers knew that the victory was almost meaningless, they said nothing to hurt morale
3. He was buoyed along at the prospect of obtaining a new body
4. The troops had been buoyed up with the prospect of a stiff struggle at the end, and a chance of distinguishing themselves, and it seemed, by the abject surrender, that they had marched and endured for nothing
5. ” It was painful to see the thoroughly worn out condition of this fine regiment, a majority of which looked more fit for a hospital ward than anything else; but the thought of Old England, after their long sojourn abroad, buoyed them up, and they pluckily did their work till the end, though numbers were forced to give in each day
6. So few hospital supplies had been unloaded that before July 1st, when the army was buoyed against sickness by the prospect of the combat, the wounded from Guasimas alone overtaxed the hospital facilities
7. Reese put his hand on top of hers, and resolve surged back through her, buoyed by the tenderness and strength of his grasp
8. With buoyed hopes of success, she had sentenced herself to pass the day among the sharp rocks in the particular spot where she found herself
9. The adventure that I was having buoyed me beyond the concerns of any kind of readership possibilities, as I worked through my first and then into this, my second effort
10. While they were deciding the best way to proceed to his help, the impatient Ferrante decided to blunder ahead again against Percy, buoyed by the imminent arrival of the Holy League forces under Juan Francisco Gonzaga
11. the jaundice was tempered by optimism buoyed by the tireless work of two devoted
12. Buoyed with hope that all was well they ran to the yurt and
13. The fortune cookie I opened in a Chinese restaurant in Ithaca in 1975 reading, “Nothing seems impossible to you,” hardly buoyed my spirits
14. I was buoyed up by the experience
15. She doubted, but upon slipping two pennies into the hand of the wife she received smiles and bobbing that in turn buoyed her up
16. The thought buoyed him, but to be on the safe side Sebastian asked the pool guard if it was OK
17. ’ As if buoyed by the idea, John tucked into his food with renewed vigour
18. It also helps to prevent the sagging skin that usually follows weigh loss -- shrinking cells are buoyed by water which plumps the skin and leaves it clear, healthy and resilient
19. Buoyed by the reports, she wrote to swamiji requesting the reply be mailed to her friend’s address
20. Natalie nods her head as her face changes as a surge of cocaine makes her eyes flicker, buoyed by the confidence the chemical has just given her she stares back; �You can't blame the cocaine for that, she's just a right bitch in the morning!�
21. Buoyed by growing confidence, Stallman wore the button
22. The delicately buoyed cylinder began to rise rapidly
23. Once the water no longer buoyed them, they felt weak and sluggish
24. The next morning the city seemed new, the haze-clouded sun brighter, and his spirit buoyed by her lofty words
25. Buoyed by the events of the last 24 hours, it seems that the precedent set by the extremely high profile legal kicking the council has taken may have caused a seismic shift in the power balance
26. Buoyed by Sandhya’s commitment to their love and accompanied by Raju, Roopa called on her in-laws that evening
27. Buoyed by his resolve, he leaped up the steps, and as expected, he found Roopa alone in the sofa
28. Buoyed by that new found feeling, Roopa left the booking counter and rejoined the Raja Raos and Sathyam
29. Well, while the infectiousness of his youthful zest lifted our spirits, his affectionate manner buoyed our self-worth that freed our union from the self-imposed strain of yore
30. Hunter, buoyed up by recent success was thinking of something a little more effective
31. He kissed me, and I was so buoyed by the thrill of it being over, of not having to worry any more, that I kissed him back with all of the excess energy I had bubbling over me
32. Buoyed by this success, the RATE radiocarbon research next checked for
33. I grinned, buoyed up by her excitement and my own
34. The Chief Of Police was buoyed by these Facebook revelations, and was certain now that a breakthrough was imminent The investigation contrary to The Police Headquarters’ opinion had not stalled, and was in fact revealing something new every day
35. Buoyed by the beauty of the plains, the relative ease of the rest of the journey, and the prospect of a warm bath and a hot meal, the weary travellers found renewed energy in their legs
36. Modern suburban amenities had quietly appeared along its narrow corridor, Wal-Mart and McDonald’s and other fast food joints, as if buoyed by their geographical position in town – southernmost -- and hence, their greater relative proximity to the Kansas City area, the way branches of a plant strain toward sunlight
37. The captain's undaunted serenity buoyed them all up against despondency
38. All this was a distant eight or nine months! The cloud nine squared elation would have plummeted to below earth level but the thought that Thursday was just two days away, plus the endorphin renaissance, buoyed the emotional high
39. With unemployment hovering in double digits, the people of Britain are defeatist and cynical, a far cry from the plucky can-do spirit that buoyed Great Britain in World War II
40. Rosemary had been proud to be working as a “counselor” at the camp, where her self-esteem was buoyed by the perception of responsibility
41. “Thanks,” I said, so buoyed by his words that my throat constricted with emotion
42. “Hi,” I said, pausing before him, feeling buoyed to see a familiar face, even if it was his
43. I seemed to float the four miles to the little parking area near the head of the Eagle Creek Trail, buoyed by a pure, unadulterated emotion that can only be described as joy
44. He was halfway to becoming the badass doc, buoyed up by grainy nighttime videotape of gurneys coming out of the house, bathed in flashing red light
45. Merriwether had said, For a moment, her self-justification buoyed her up but still she looked about the hall and there were long intervals when no one came to their corner and Scarlett had
46. I held back from painting, like a diver on the water's edge; once in I found myself buoyed and exhilarated
47. This company's business was buoyed in 2013 by the influx of new money from Asia, but the stock hit its head on the ceiling during that year's last quarter
48. In some curious and indefinable way the enthusiasm that had buoyed up everybody and had seemed ready to continue for ever suddenly drains away
49. Rahim Buoyed by Rahim Khan's note, I grabbed the story and hurried downstairs to the foyer Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner where Ali and Hassan were sleeping on a mattress
50. It was Mrs Frith who now buoyed them up, as she had depressed them in the earlier days
1. White Feathers's supply of ice blocks was nearly exhausted before the last week of August, which prompted discussion of an alternative plan to the tedium of retrieving the blocks from beneath their scattered holding buoys in the lake
2. He and George excavated a deep cellar and after sealing it against leaks then further insulating bins within it to receive the next summer's supply, decided they would also reuse the initial method as well, though with fewer buoys
3. several lighthouses and numerous buoys marked out the safe channels
4. stations were linked with the marker buoys that tracked through space with the point
5. In the silence that descended, Amaranthe heard the breeze bumping the buoys hanging on the outside walls
6. “Did that destroyer leave any marker buoys on the wreckage?” he asked the flight computer
7. And as if there weren’t enough there to overwhelm him, additional clusters were tied to buoys at either side
8. It was difficult not to notice an old tug moving a log barge into the harbor that the cutter passed between channel buoys
9. A string of buoys were positioned around the Pacific ‘Rim of Fire
10. These buoys transmit detailed information about tsunamis while they are still far offshore
11. tables, chairs, drum cans, fishing nets, buoys, and tonnes of garbage littered the mud-
12. It was only as the tanker was finally tied to the mooring buoys that the pipe was ready to go
13. The thin wires that were attached to the terminals extended into the deep blue water and emerged on one of the buoys that held the tanker in position
14. Besides vessels, they constructed buoys and other navigation aids
15. The USCG gradually replaced on-station lightships with large navigational buoys (LNB), also called “lanbys,”
16. In 1976 weather patrol cutters were replaced by electronic buoys and satellites
17. Aground: resting on or touching the ground or the bottom of a river or other body of water Aids to navigation: devices which assist navigation; markers, lights, bell, buoys, fog horns, radio and other electronic transmissions, loran stations
18. waters, having been replaced by buoys or other structures
19. Red, right returning: Reminderto navigators and helmsmen that red buoys are on the right hand of channel when returning to port from a seaward direction
20. Red buoys are on the right as a vessel ascends rivers and other bodies of water, and green buoys are on the left
21. Conversely, as a vessel descends a river or body of water the green buoys are on the right and red buoys are on the left
22. Buoys are secured in place by concrete anchors and chains
23. Captain Larson noted that in his experience the buoys extended out of the water about 10 feet in height
24. Coast Guard historian and author Dennis Noble traced the role of the lighthouse tenders that maintained aids to navigation: supplied the lighthouses with mail, equipment, and supplies; removed and returned keepers to their stations; brought lighthouse inspectors on board; serviced buoys; and sometimes went aground in the process
25. In January of 1983 the 180-foot Sundew was cutting through one-foot-thick ice, picking up the last two lighted buoys in the harbor of Duluth-Superior
26. The crew attempted to hook on to one of the three-ton ice-covered buoys to hoist it to the deck of the buoy tender
27. The removal of the harbor buoys ended the previous shipping season
28. The lighted buoys were among the total of 358 ATN in the harbor and on Lake Superior
29. The buoys were scheduled for maintenance over the winter months, as was the Sundew after a season of aiding mariners and a downed pilot in distress, collecting ecological samples, stocking fish, and icebreaking
30. Maintaining and monitoring the large ATN buoys on the Lake is just one of the responsibilities of the cutter crews on the Inland Seas (“The USCGC Woodrush,” ca
31. The lightly armed cutter survived several Japanese bombing raids as it laid channel markers and buoys for Allied warships and escorted cargo vessels and fuel tankers
32. Kim made the Minister give him the fullest details as to how Hu Lyang intended to blow up the diving bells and how he had intended to “dress” the scene with the “Sasol” Overalls-clad bodies of the Kanes and the Russian and the final finishing touch of the “Sasol” Logo-bearing buoys
33. kayak out past the buoys in the sea and then just taken
34. The older man ran his hand along his scruffy, gray beard, glancing at the boat that was rocking softly against the buoys
35. There were white sailed yachts skittering across the ruffled waters on the brisk breeze nearer the shore, while, on the other side of the launch, further out, a small float plane left a creamy wake as it took off from the watery runway, marked out with orange buoys
36. Guardians rose up and floated upon the surface of the water, as if they were buoys
37. They threaded a route between buoys and mooring ropes
38. Both had been beacons and buoys of safety for him in a sea of frothing familial
39. But tires, buoys, splintered hulls, bottles and cans, rope, and
40. Another time in warm weather out in a boat, to lift the lobster-pots where they are sunk with heavy stones, (I know the buoys,)
41. just before sunrise toward the buoys,
42. Again among the tiers of shipping, in and out, avoiding rusty chain-cables frayed hempen hawsers and bobbing buoys, sinking for the moment floating broken baskets, scattering floating chips of wood and shaving, cleaving floating scum of coal, in and out, under the figure-head of the John of Sunderland making a speech to the winds (as is done by many Johns), and the Betsy of Yarmouth with a firm formality of bosom and her knobby eyes starting two inches out of her head; in and out, hammers going in ship-builders' yards, saws going at timber, clashing engines going at things unknown, pumps going in leaky ships, capstans going, ships going out to sea, and unintelligible sea-creatures roaring curses over the bulwarks at respondent lightermen, in and out,—out at last upon the clearer river, where the ships' boys might take their fenders in, no longer fishing in troubled waters with them over the side, and where the festooned sails might fly out to the wind
43. It was like my own marsh country, flat and monotonous, and with a dim horizon; while the winding river turned and turned, and the great floating buoys upon it turned and turned, and everything else seemed stranded and still
44. The information they had suggested there were nasty shoals around Symov, and the Harchongians had removed the navigation buoys when the Imperial Charisian Navy retook Claw Island from the Dohlarans
45. The Harchongians had removed all of the Shweimouth buoys as soon as Earl Sharpfield’s light cruisers started raiding their shipping in the Gulf of Dohlar
46. Others had temporarily anchored themselves, marking shallows and mudbanks in place of the navigation buoys the Harchongians had removed once they realized the squadron was coming
47. It was the widest and safest of Crescent Bay’s four entrances, which was a non-trivial consideration, given the general unreliability of Harchongese charts and the absence of any buoys
48. For Hope is as a floating Spar to a drowning Man; it buoys him up yet a little longer, and puts him above the Waves when he might well be under ’em!)
49. LIFE PRESERVERS AND BUOYS
50. In the Shore Whaling, on soundings, among the Bays of New Zealand, when a Right Whale gives token of sinking, they fasten buoys to him, with plenty of rope; so that when the body has gone down, they know where to look for it when it shall have ascended again