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  2. Shoring - Wikipedia

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    Shoring is the process of temporarily supporting a building, vessel, structure, or trench with shores (props) when in danger of collapse or during repairs or alterations. Shoring comes from shore , a timber or metal prop. [ 1 ]

  3. Damage control (maritime) - Wikipedia

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    locking off the damaged area from other ship's compartments; blocking the damaged area by wedging a box around a tear in the ship's hull, putting a band of thin sheet steel around a tear in a pipe, bound on by clamps. More complicated measures may be needed if a repair must take the pressure of the ship moving through the water. For example:

  4. Trench shoring - Wikipedia

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    Trench shoring is the process of bracing the walls of a trench to prevent collapse and cave-ins. The phrase can also be used as a noun to refer to the materials used in the process. The phrase can also be used as a noun to refer to the materials used in the process.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Caisson (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Schematic cross section of a pressurized caisson. In geotechnical engineering, a caisson (/ ˈ k eɪ s ən,-s ɒ n /; borrowed from French caisson 'box', from Italian cassone 'large box', an augmentative of cassa) is a watertight retaining structure [1] used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, [2] or for the repair of ships.

  7. Ship grounding - Wikipedia

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    Ship grounding or ship stranding is the impact of a ship on seabed or waterway side. [1] It may be intentional, as in beaching to land crew or cargo, and careening , for maintenance or repair, or unintentional, as in a marine accident.

  8. French aircraft carrier stages combat drills with Filipinos ...

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    The French carrier engaged with security allies for contingency readiness and to promote regional security, including with Filipino forces, navy ships and fighter jets. They held anti-submarine warfare drills and aerial combat training on Friday in the South China Sea, Philippine and French officials said.

  9. Glossary of nautical terms (A–L) - Wikipedia

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    AAW An acronym for anti-aircraft warfare. aback (of a sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward.On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can be braced round to be aback, the purpose of which may be to reduce speed (such as when a ship-of-the-line is keeping station with others), to heave to, or to assist moving the ship's head ...