Ballast Island, also known as Barasu Island (Japanese: バラス島, romanized: Barasu-shima), is a small uninhabited coral island or cay in the Yaeyama chain...

Ballast Island may refer to: Ballast Island (Lake Erie) Ballast Island (Japan) Ballast Island (Seattle) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

Iriomote Island (西表島, Iriomote-jima, Yaeyama: Irïmutii; Iriomote: Irimutii; Okinawan: Iriumuti) is the largest of the Yaeyama Islands of Japan, and the...

expansions continued until 1934. The fill may have been acquired from the ballast of ships, as well as material excavated from the first line of the New...

International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (Ballast Water Management Convention or BWM Convention) is a 2004...

maintenance vehicles stabled along sidings outside Kyoto station Tamping machine Ballast cleaner Overhead line replacement vehicle Loading vehicle The Shinkansen...

Nagato (Japanese: 長門, named after the ancient Nagato Province) was a super-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Completed...

Indies (now Indonesia), Philippines and Wake Island. The Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 assigned Japan a tonnage allocation with which it was dissatisfied...

catchment systems or brought to Nauru as ballast on ships returning for loads of phosphate. Fauna is sparse on the island because of a lack of vegetation and...

enjoys substantial tax privileges has contributed to the growing emissions. Ballast water discharges by ships can have a negative impact on the marine environment...

her hull girders reinforced and ballast installed during a refit from 17 May to 20 July 1934 after the top-heavy Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru capsized...

Ocean from Japan to North America by fast, high-altitude air currents, today known as the jet stream, and used a sophisticated sandbag ballast system to...

ships that take on water ballast to allow the load—usually another vessel—to be floated over the deck, whereupon the ballast is jettisoned and the ship's...

Roberts from Dubai to Newport, Rhode Island. The ship was built in 1983 by Oshima Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in Ōshima, Japan, for Dutch shipping firm Wijsmuller...

manipulator arm on the starboard side of the pressure hull, a system to drop ballast, and a cluster of five, fixed direction, ducted propeller, marine thrusters...

Ranger, describing a broken portlight (a porthole window) and water in the ballast control room, with discussions on how best to repair the damage. Ocean...

Kure Naval Arsenal for modifications that strengthened her keel and added ballast and shallow torpedo bulges to improve her stability. Her funnels were moved...

the island and a corresponding 50-centimeter (20 in) narrowing on the starboard side and the addition of 100 metric tons (98 long tons) of ballast on the...

transaction between Rapanui fishermen at Easter Island who were using the head (approx 1m height) as ballast for a boat. The Memorial Park has no plans for...

1960, with Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard on board. Iron shot was used for ballast, with gasoline for buoyancy. The onboard systems indicated a depth of 37...

got underway for her first war patrol, to Midway Island to help repel the expected attack by the Japanese fleet. At 07:55, 4 June, while approaching the...

demonstration for some VIP civilian visitors, Greeneville performed an emergency ballast blow surfacing maneuver. As the submarine shot to the surface, she struck...

Shinano (Japanese: 信濃, named after the ancient Shinano Province) was an aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II...

of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade. It enables trains to move...

On the next try, she grounded again, but came free after adjusting the ballast. On the final attempt, HA. 19 was depth charged, which disabled her ability...

Service, transporting Japanese military and civilian personnel from former Japanese territories back to the Japanese home islands. She made a total of...

500 lb (3,856 kg) of ballast. The boat has a draft of 4.83 ft (1.47 m) with the standard keel. The boat is fitted with a Japanese Yanmar diesel engine...

(in Japanese). Kodansha. ISBN 978-4062923071. Miyata, Noboru [in Japanese] (2002). 妖怪の民俗学 (in Japanese). Chikuma shobo. ISBN 978-4480086990. Ballaster, Ros...

as planktonic larvae in ballast water carried by commercial vessels sailing from where the species is native, such as Japan. They prefer a slightly cold...

of Tonkin and the sea around Hainan Island. In Japan, dugongs have been traditionally hunted in the Ryukyu Islands since prehistoric times. Carved ribs...