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    A buoy (/ˈbɔɪ, buː.i/; boy, BOO-ee) is a floating device that can have many purposes. It can be anchored (stationary) or allowed to drift with ocean currents...
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    Null Island (redirect from Soul buoy)
    Guinea. A weather buoy, named the Soul buoy after the soul music genre, is permanently moored at the location. The nearest land to Null Island is a small...
    9 KB (939 words) - 17:19, 18 April 2024
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    Cardinal mark (redirect from Cardinal buoy)
    A cardinal mark is a sea mark (a buoy or other floating or fixed structure) commonly used in maritime pilotage to indicate the position of a hazard and...
    7 KB (937 words) - 23:41, 26 April 2024
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    The USCG seagoing buoy tender is a type of United States Coast Guard Cutter used to service aids to navigation throughout the waters of the United States...
    9 KB (837 words) - 16:00, 7 August 2022
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    Buoy is the official mascot for the Seattle Kraken, a National Hockey League (NHL) team based in Seattle. The process of finding a mascot took two years...
    10 KB (937 words) - 16:25, 11 April 2024
  • Look up buoy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A buoy is a floating device of many types and uses. Buoy(s) may also refer to: Buøy, Hundvåg, Stavanger...
    962 bytes (169 words) - 21:12, 14 January 2023
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    A breeches buoy is a rope-based rescue device used to extract people from wrecked vessels, or to transfer people from one place to another in situations...
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    Lifebuoy (redirect from Life buoy)
    A lifebuoy is a life-saving buoy designed to be thrown to a person in water to provide buoyancy and prevent drowning. Some modern lifebuoys are fitted...
    6 KB (732 words) - 09:34, 15 May 2024
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    A rescue buoy or rescue tube or torpedo buoy is a piece of lifesaving equipment used in water rescue. This flotation device can help support the victim's...
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    surface marker buoy, SMB, dive float or simply a blob is a buoy used by scuba divers, at the end of a line from the diver, intended to indicate the diver's...
    33 KB (4,363 words) - 03:20, 24 February 2024
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    a national loan to buoy up the national budget in which the Republic was trying to balance. The loan, worth 20 million pesos, was to be paid in 40 years...
    49 KB (4,557 words) - 19:51, 27 May 2024
  • A SLOT buoy (short for: "Submarine-Launched One-Way Transmitter Buoy" or "Submarine-Launched One-Way Tactical Buoy") is a buoy with an on-board radio...
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    Luftwaffe's rescue buoy (Rettungsboje) was designed to provide shelter for the pilots or crew of aircraft shot down or forced to make an emergency landing...
    7 KB (869 words) - 21:49, 4 April 2024
  • Steven Stayner (category Converts to Mormonism)
    ISBN 0-7860-1104-1 From Victim To Hero: The Untold Story of Steven Stayner, by Jim Laughter assisted by Sharon Carr Griffen. Buoy Up Press, Denton, Texas, 2010...
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    A Single buoy mooring (SrM) (also known as single-point mooring or SPM) is a loading buoy anchored offshore, that serves as a mooring point and interconnect...
    9 KB (1,284 words) - 15:46, 17 September 2023
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    Trinity Buoy Wharf is the site of a lighthouse, by the confluence of the River Thames and Bow Creek on the Leamouth Peninsula, Poplar. It lies within the...
    10 KB (885 words) - 04:46, 14 September 2023
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    founded in 1896, started up in Sandvigå in Stavanger and moved to Buøy in 1898. Rosenberg started making ships here and later moved on to building supertankers...
    4 KB (359 words) - 04:44, 10 January 2022
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    The Keeper class of coastal buoy tenders consists of fourteen ships built for and operated by the United States Coast Guard. The ships were launched between...
    36 KB (2,994 words) - 15:32, 26 December 2023
  • object, totally or partially immersed in a fluid or liquid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. Archimedes'...
    23 KB (3,620 words) - 07:27, 30 October 2023
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    Buoyancy (redirect from Buoyance)
    forces: Any object, wholly or partially immersed in a fluid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object —with the clarifications...
    28 KB (4,271 words) - 21:19, 9 May 2024
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