The Buoys

McKenzy Espy Drowning is a very serious and scary thing. No one wants to go through or know someone who's gone through it. Unfortunately I had to go through this situation. When I was 10 years old my uncle drowned in a lake in Eatonville. He was only 21 years old when he drowned. It was during summer time when he was with a bunch of his friends and they decided they wanted to go for a swim. My Uncle was an amazing swimmer, one of the best I knew. For awhile, after it happened I could never

cyclone activity is the National Hurricane Center (NHC) and they cover the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific basins throughout North America. To start it begins with visual observations of the hurricane using reconnaissance airplanes, satellites, ships, buoys, radars, and an assortment of land-based equipment. Likewise, most of the storm’s projected path and

Viorst described eight types of friends that women have in their lives, and it widened my understanding of variety types of friends. Also, she encouraged us to make friends and be happy. As old saying goes, “A friend is what the heart needs all the time”, it means that friends are very important to us. Why friends are important? Here are the benefits of making friends. First of all, friends are standing behind and supporting you all the time. Once you have trouble, they will give advice and encourage

Pi embraces all aspects of the three religions to give direction to his unorthodox life. Pi states, “A germ of religion exaltation, …, was sown in me and left to germinate. It has never stopped growing since that day (Martel 47).” Pi’s dedication towards three religion keeps on growing each day. Regardless of what the three devout religious figures complain about the weakness of each religion, Pi stayed true to his belief and claims he only wants to love God in spite of the difference between the

In chapter 11, “Miigwan’s Coming to Story” by The Marrow Thieves, author Cherie Dimeline uses Miigwan’s Coming to Story to reveal how trust leads to betrayal. Earlier in this chapter, Miig and his husband Isaac find some indigenous people alone in the woods who seem to need help. Miig is suspicious of these people, but his husband disagrees and insists on helping indigenous people in need. Miig continues to explain “I walked out into the hallway half-lit by the moonlight falling in through the small

Hurricanes happen when the ocean has been warmed for the summer months but most of the hurricanes happen during fall. There are effects on the land by the Hurricanes affect people's lives because they can do so much damage. Winds can damage houses, trees, and any outdoor property. Hurricanes can cause major flooding and destroy housing and many more things. During a hurricane, houses can be ripped into pieces and destroyed badly. People will have to come back and rebuild houses and other things that

the planet. NASA GISS's monthly temperature analysis report explains, “The monthly analysis by the GISS team is assembled from publicly available data acquired by about 6,300 cooperative weather meteorological stations around the world, ships- and buoy-based instruments measuring sea surface temperature, and Antarctic research stations.” (2017) It’s easy to notice from NASA's charts where it was hot in July compared to the 1951-1980 average and the extreme warming around Antarctica. The global map

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ensure they learn from other unit’s misfortunes, discussing lessons learned. After assuming command, he has continually sought out ways to make every evolution as safe as possible. For example, he designed a new chain stopper for recovering smaller buoys and purchased new more efficient tools for the crew. Senior Chief Petty Officer Seymour and his crew completed the Unit Safety Assessment Tool. Subsequent to completing this assessment, he had a meeting with his crew to create a work list to correct

back to camp knowing that the wind is only going to increase and we cannot hold Sting down much longer. We get the ok from the safety boat and start heading toward our buoy. All five of us are hiking out as hard as we can, both the jib and the mainsails are all the way out to reduce speed and power. We get 50 feet away from our buoy and hit a massive puff, we try so hard to keep the boat from capsizing, but the five of us strictly don't have enough weight. I yell out to my crew that we are capsizing