Nylon is a strong, but elastic rope, used for mooring lines and anchor warps as it resists shock loads.
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Using an acoustic transponder, they will release the mooring from the anchor which will be left on the bottom.
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In port, the watch focuses on duties such as cargo operations, fire and security watches, monitoring communications and the anchor or mooring lines.
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Los Angeles'Mayor Norris Poulson promptly set about converting Walter's anchor to windward into a permanent mooring.
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The entire mooring string is held to its anchor by something called an acoustic release that releases the trap from its anchor when it receives an acoustic command from a deck box aboard the ship.
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A kedge anchor is a light anchor used for kedging, or more commonly on yachts for mooring quickly or in benign conditions.
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This involved the placement of mooring lines and four massive anchors, at the end of about 800m of anchor chain, to secure the barge next to the Rena.
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We anchor for the night in Parekura Bay and while the boat gently swings to and fro on its mooring people congregate at the bar for a pre-dinner drink.
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First anchor it in the sea floor, and then up about several hundred feet with the mooring line, the riser pipe would come up to just below the surface, and there would be a buoy above it.