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The koch's hull was protected by a belt of ice-floe resistant flush skin-planking along the variable water-line, and had a false keel for on-ice portage. If a koch became squeezed by the ice-fields, its rounded bodylines below the water-line would allow for the ship to be pushed up out of the water and onto the ice with no damage. [5]
Icebreakers (ice hockey team), a charity hockey team of Swedish NHL players; Chesapeake Icebreakers, a defunct American minor-league hockey team; Ice Breaker Road Race, an annual foot race in Great Falls, Montana, US; Ice Breaker Tournament, an annual American college ice hockey event
An icebreaker is a brief facilitation exercise intended to help members of a group begin the process of working together or forming a team.They are commonly presented as games to "warm up" a group by helping members get to know each other and often focus on sharing personal information such as names or hobbies.
This is a list of icebreakers and other special icebreaking vessels (except cargo ships and tankers) capable of operating independently in ice-covered waters. Ships known to be in service are presented in bold .
Polar-class icebreakers USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), USCGC Polar Sea (WAGB-11) are heavy icebreakers operated by the United States Coast Guard (USCG). These cutters, specifically designed for icebreaking, have reinforced hulls, special icebreaking bows, and a system that allows rapid shifting of ballast to increase the effectiveness of their icebreaking.
A ball woven out of line used to provide heft to heave the line to another location. The monkey fist and other heaving-line knots were sometimes weighted with lead (easily available in the form of foil used e.g. to seal tea chests from dampness) although Clifford W. Ashley notes that there was a "definite sporting limit" to the weight thus added.
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Slop or SLOP may refer to: Slop (clothing) AI slop, a derogatory term describing low-quality artificial intelligence-generated content or media; Slop is the common name for household food scraps; Strategic Lateral Offset Procedure, in aviation, a procedure for avoiding collisions; a popular term for Backlash (engineering)