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Remaining storms could be avoided by moving a floating anchor platform.

This has become the era of floating anchors.

Treasure ships also used floating anchors cast off the sides of the ship in order to increase stability.

One outstretched hand touched the floating anchor cable as if it wished to climb aboard.

Another recent notable attraction was an animated floating anchored illuminated musical fountain located just off the Spit.

One of the officers in the Command Room spoke from a screen on the panel being operated by the soldier floating anchored to a pipe fitting just in front of him.

In Chapter 3, Floating Anchors, Crabb briefly describes the views of Sigmund Freud, "Ego Psychology", Carl Rogers, B.F. Skinner, and "Existentialism" (Victor Frankl) on the causes and structure of mental problems, and he finds each wanting.

I dragged anchor into the brush and fooled the doctors.

Germany, once the dragging anchor of Europe, also expanded 0.6 percent in the quarter.

In spite of their efforts, she continued to drag anchor toward shoal water.

A sudden Force 10 squall caused the ship to drag anchor.

Our dragging anchor was making better headway than your motor."

"They must have put out the drag anchor."

Their boats are unattended and if they drag anchor and hit someone, it's no big deal.

Some leaks are caused by boats that drag anchors over the cables, the utilities said.

Also damage from dragging anchors is highly likely.

Boats transporting tourists to the reef may damage it by dragging anchors.

Germany remains, as ever, the dragging anchor.

Dragging anchor is what has saved me.

"Yes, got tired of dragging anchors, I suppose," the Captain said.

Drag anchors were thrown over the sides.

So I dragged anchor once more, and now I am working for the co-operative commonwealth.

However, before the day ended, Arthur Middleton herself ran aground after dragging anchor.

I am much more afraid of losing my luggage, for example, or of dragging anchor in a northeasterly blow.

The ship dragged anchor and sank.

While lost in the fog she heard talking and realised that a barge had dragged anchor and was coming down river with the tide.

Rough weather during the first night of the voyage forced Voyager to drag anchor and run aground, but she was pulled off soon thereafter.

On 21 October, during a storm, the Prince Rupert dragged anchor and drifted out to sea.

The three-masted schooner Emma Utter dragged anchor and was smashed ashore.

Liable to drag anchor.

Dragging anchor, LCI-814 fouled the net layer's bow at 1855.

I keep telling Brant,' he said, 'that it must be an accident--maybe a dragging anchor.

The repairs included fixing two underwater pipelines linking it to shore that had been crushed by a drifting anchor.

A sea anchor (also known as a drift anchor, drift sock, para-anchor or boat brake) is a device used to stabilize a boat in heavy weather.

Often sold as drift anchors or drift socks, sea anchors are used in fishing vessels to hold them stationary relative to the water to allow a certain area to be fished, without having to use the motor.

There are other times when you might want to ride to a sea anchor.

She had dropped a sea anchor to maintain her position.

When I was up, he showed me the sea anchor rope.

I ought to get away from the house and throw out a sea anchor, he thought.

There was no time to pull in the lines to the sea anchors.

In that case my only course would be to take all sail off her and lie to a sea anchor.

"Maybe I could rig some kind of sea anchor," he said.

The sailing master had been lost when he attempted to put out a sea anchor.

The sea anchors did their job well-in fact, nearly too well.

"We must put out a sea anchor in case the engine stops.

The crew used sea anchors to keep the three lifeboats close together.

The first, and probably most well known use, of the sea anchor is to aid vessels in heavy weather.

Even with sea anchors and bare poles we were sure to be driven.

The sea anchor remained just under the surface of the ocean in a perpendicular position.

They dropped their sea anchor at the location and everyone donned his gear.

At daybreak I try this with quarter-inch line from the sea anchor.

"We're bringing up material to rig a sea anchor," the captain said.

And an insistence on government control of major industries serves as a sea anchor slowing economic growth.

Sea anchors also reduce the speed at which a vessel will drift with the wind.

The two teenagers carefully dropped a sea anchor into the water and then adjusted their gear.

"I was lost in the storm, and he was my sea anchor.

The skiff rocked gently in the water, pulling on its sea anchor.

The length and type of the line, or rode, used to attach the sea anchor to the bow is also important.

We'll heave to, rig a sea anchor, and ride out the weather.

The bag will act like a sea anchor.

For this reason, most occur in shallow and sheltered coastal waters anchored in sand or mud bottoms.

He was appointed to see "Every ship drawing eight feet of water anchoring at Shackleford Banks to charge three shillings six pence per foot".

For much of his tenure with the network, Waters anchored CNN Today with Natalie Allen.

Like all autotrophic plants, seagrasses photosynthesize so are limited to growing in the submerged photic zone, and most occur in shallow and sheltered coastal waters anchored in sand or mud bottoms.