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    Gaff rig is a sailing rig (configuration of sails, mast and stays) in which the sail is four-cornered, fore-and-aft rigged, controlled at its peak and...
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  • drilling rig owned by Transocean and operated by BP. On 20 April 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, a blowout caused an explosion on the rig that...
    48 KB (4,121 words) - 03:20, 20 May 2024
  • The Rig is a British supernatural thriller television series created by David Macpherson for Amazon Prime Video. The series is directed by John Strickland...
    19 KB (1,122 words) - 20:49, 15 April 2024
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    Rigveda (redirect from Rig-veda)
    The Rigveda or Rig Veda (Sanskrit: ऋग्वेद, IAST: ṛgveda, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns...
    115 KB (12,607 words) - 15:55, 29 April 2024
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    Carolina rig is a fishing rig similar to the Texas rig, but with the sinker weight fixed above the hook instead of sliding down to it. The Carolina rig is suitable...
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    Lateen (redirect from Lateen rig)
    latin-rig is a triangular sail set on a long yard mounted at an angle on the mast, and running in a fore-and-aft direction. The settee can be considered to...
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    Byford Dolphin (category Drilling rigs)
    Byford Dolphin was a semi-submersible, column-stabilised drilling rig operated by Dolphin Drilling, a Fred Olsen Energy subsidiary. It drilled seasonally...
    19 KB (1,868 words) - 21:07, 19 May 2024
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    rig owned by Transocean and built in South Korea. The platform was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to 8...
    71 KB (7,082 words) - 21:15, 20 April 2024
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    Jury rigging (redirect from Jerry-rig)
    Look up jury-rig in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In maritime transport and sailing, jury rigging is making temporary makeshift running repairs with...
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    full-rigged ship or fully rigged ship is a sailing vessel with a sail plan of three or more masts, all of them square-rigged. Such a vessel is said to have...
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  • Megalodon (2004 film) (category Articles to be expanded from November 2017)
    Megalodon is a 2004 American horror film. It takes place out on a deep-sea oil rig. When a deep sea drilling platform penetrates the sea bed in Greenland...
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    Schooner (redirect from Schooner rig)
    (/ˈskuːnər/ SKOO-nər) is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner...
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    The Texas rig is a fishing rig used for angling with soft plastic lures. It comprises a bullet weight or similar sliding fishing sinker, an offset worm...
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  • small, allowing bass of all sizes to take the bait. Unlike the Texas rig and Carolina rig, both sides of the wacky rig flutter, creating a more natural...
    5 KB (669 words) - 13:38, 8 September 2023
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    The junk rig, also known as the Chinese lugsail, Chinese balanced lug sail, or sampan rig, is a type of sail rig in which rigid members, called battens...
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    sailing vessel's rig is its arrangement of masts, sails and rigging. Examples include a schooner rig, cutter rig, junk rig, etc. A rig may be broadly categorized...
    34 KB (4,281 words) - 04:39, 23 May 2024
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    A jackup rig or a self-elevating unit is a type of mobile platform that consists of a buoyant hull fitted with a number of movable legs, capable of raising...
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    mast, mainmast and additional masts rigged square and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-masted barques) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen...
    16 KB (1,807 words) - 20:42, 12 May 2024
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    Yawl (redirect from Dandy rig)
    apply to the rig (or sailplan), to the hull type or to the use which the vessel is put. As a rig, a yawl is a two masted, fore and aft rigged sailing...
    16 KB (2,177 words) - 17:04, 27 March 2024
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    Run rig, or runrig, also known as rig-a-rendal, was a system of land tenure practised in Scotland, particularly in the Highlands and Islands. It was used...
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