A boom or a chain (also boom defence, harbour chain, river chain, chain boom, boom chain or variants) is an obstacle strung across a navigable stretch...

contain an oil spill Boom (navigational barrier), an obstacle used to control or block marine navigation Boom (sailing), a sailboat part Boom (windsurfing),...

sensitive estuary, an arrangement of booms with a decelerator is needed. Boom (navigational barrier) Log boom "Boom (containment), in IncidentNews.gov Glossary"...

targeted enemy booms with arms and explosives. Boom (navigational barrier) Timber rafting "The Susquehanna Log Boom, Williamsport, PA, 1890". ExplorePAHistory...

The Shoeburyness Boom (also known as the Sheerness Boom, Thames Boom or Thames Estuary Boom) refers to two successive defensive barriers across most of...

control. (An example of a passive method would be a containment boom.) The pneumatic barrier consists of a perforated pipe and a compressed air source. Air...

bubbles in a deliberate arrangement in water. It is also called pneumatic barrier. The technique is based on bubbles of air (gas) being let out under the...

incorporated solar-powered monitoring and navigation systems, including GPS, cameras, lanterns and AIS. The barrier and the screen were produced by an Austrian...

Quiet Supersonic Technology demonstrator to reduce sonic boom noise and damage, to allow "low-boom" supersonic transports to be supersonic over populated...

becoming moribund. Two projects were started, Project Beacon on new navigational systems and air traffic control, and Project Horizon on advanced civil...

steadily emerged as a major economic force in the north woods. However, as a barrier to commerce Grandfather Falls ceased to become an issue. In 1938 Wisconsin...

The 2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill occurred on 3 April 2010, when the Chinese bulk coal carrier, MV Shen Neng 1 ran aground east of Rockhampton in...

deck, placing bridge concrete barrier guardrails which also act as wind barriers, placing bridge deck and navigational lighting, constructing the Borden-Carleton...

viewed as the last remaining open-space barrier against a future "San Angeles" composed of Southern California boom and sprawl from Santa Barbara to the...

aids to navigation (AtoN) system is fairly dense, and growing rapidly. The MSA Beihai Navigational Security Center's Tianjin Aids to Navigation Office...

The de Havilland DH.110 Sea Vixen is a British twin-engine, twin boom-tailed, two-seat, carrier-based fleet air-defence fighter flown by the Royal Navy's...

and Mercat Press (1990 reprint). ISBN 0-901824-25-9 Boom defences are barriers to obstruct navigation, such as a chain or bar across a waterway. Wenham...

headed north on the river. In 1776 a chain and boom were built across the river to provide a physical barrier to ships, in addition to the combined firepower...

Spanish Americas. For the Dutch, despite attaining their long sought-after Barrier Treaty, the war is seen as marking the beginning of their decline as a...

in the United States, both crossings in the circle are equipped with boom barriers. In Kassel, Germany, Lines 4 and 8 pass through the centre of the roundabout...

ascent exists to a low pass allowing easier wagon-era travel among the barrier mountains of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians giving access into north-central...

March 2020. "Harbour Map and Navigational Chart. From Netherlands Government chart, 1977". Retrieved 4 March 2020. "Navigation Waypoints referencing to "Bucuti...

journalist Derek B Derek Bolland 1965–2009 British rapper Eric B. Louis Eric Barrier 1963– American rapper (Eric B. & Rakim) Jazzie B Trevor Beresford Romeo...

have doomed NASA chopper - The sandy landscape offered few points of navigational reference for Ingenuity". Space.com. Archived from the original on 31...

spill. The PCG started using floating barriers and siphoning using water buckets to clean up the oil slick. Booms, including those made from coconut husks...

by the large number of vessels frequenting the harbor during the whaling boom of the late 1700s and early 1800s. The original Edgartown Light was a wooden...

hood like covering over a small hatchway on a ship. boom 1.  A floating barrier to control navigation into and out of rivers and harbors. 2.  A spar attached...

Chain-boat navigation or chain-ship navigation is a little-known chapter in the history of shipping on European rivers. From around the middle of the...

ultimately successfully defended the Spanish Netherlands, established a barrier there, and their troops proved central to the alliance which halted French...

circuits and city courses, but also on gravel surfaces and ice. However, the F1 boom led to a change to a full-fledged racing series. The futuristic car designs...