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  2. Police warn owners of damaged boats: Remove them from the ...

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    Police also promoted a program that helps boat owners remove their damaged vessels from the water at no cost.

  3. Yachts impacted by international sanctions following the ...

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    Following the arrest of the owner, the yacht was arrested by Croatian authorities in Split. On 1 December 2022 it was announced she was seized and set to be auctioned off by the Asset Recovery and Management Agency. An auction date is not announced as of 1 December 2022. [29] [2] [30] 1 December 2022: Seized Croatia TBA: Auction date Croatia TBA

  4. Marine salvage - Wikipedia

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    USS Regulus hard aground in 1971 due to a typhoon: after three weeks of effort, Naval salvors deemed it unsalvageable.. Marine salvage takes many forms, and may involve anything from refloating a ship that has gone aground or sunk as well as necessary work to prevent loss of the vessel, such as pumping water out of a ship—thereby keeping the ship afloat—extinguishing fires on board, to ...

  5. Stabilizer (ship) - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of retractable fin stabilizers on a ship. Ship stabilizers: a fixed fin stabilizer (foreground centre) and bilge keels (left background).. Ship stabilizers (or stabilisers) are fins or rotors mounted beneath the waterline and emerging laterally from the hull to reduce a ship's roll due to wind or waves.

  6. Anti-rolling gyro - Wikipedia

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    Effective ship installations require rotors having a weight of approximately 3% to 5% of a vessel's displacement. Unlike hydrodynamic roll stabilizing fins, the ship gyroscopic stabilizer can only produce a limited roll stabilizing moment that may be exceeded as the wave height increases.

  7. Screw extractor - Wikipedia

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    A screw extractor held in a tap wrench. A screw extractor is a tool for removing broken or seized screws.There are two types: one has a spiral flute structure, commonly called an easy out after the trademarked name EZ-Out; [clarification needed] the other has a straight flute structure.

  8. Rotor ship - Wikipedia

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    Rotor ship E-Ship 1. A rotor ship is a type of ship designed to use the Magnus effect for propulsion. The ship is propelled, at least in part, by large powered vertical rotors, sometimes known as rotor sails. German engineer Anton Flettner was the first to build a ship that attempted to tap this force for propulsion. "The idea worked, but the ...

  9. Will alligator seized in New York be reunited with owner ...

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    The home's owner built an addition and installed an in-ground swimming pool for the 34-year-old alligator and allowed people, including children, to get into the water with the reptile, according ...