Word: buoyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Cousins told Hazelwood by phone that he was starting to turn. But the ship's course recorder shows that the Valdez did not start to change direction until seven minutes later. Next, the lookout on duty ran into the ship's pilothouse to report that a flashing red buoy near Bligh Reef, which should have been visible on the port (left) side, had been spotted on the starboard (right) side...
...threat to local marine life quickly became apparent. As oil gushed out at the rate of 20,000 gal. an hour, emergency teams found ducks coated with crude and sea lions with flippers drenched in oil clinging to a buoy near the wreck. By the time the leak had slowed to a dribble a day later, an estimated 270,000 bbl. of oil had escaped, producing a slick 8 miles long and 4 miles wide. It appeared to be the largest spill, if not the worst in terms of ecological damage, in U.S. history...
Just offshore from the island, we took on a bearded man who had tied his boat to a buoy so we could land at the one-boat pier. He was there to work on the north tower's brick work; a group of workers were being put up in an "apartment" adjacent to the keeper's house...
Sailboarders, surfers and sailors know the sea can be dangerous, and yet they often sacrifice safety for style. After all, a bulky life preserver would ruin the look of a hang ten. In a new product called Aqua Buoy, which hides a flotation device in a wristband, function combines with form...
Made by Aqua Buoy of West Germany, the wristband contains a carbon-dioxide cartridge and a tightly folded nylon bag and 16-in. cord. When someone wearing it runs into trouble, he can flick a lever on the wristband, triggering the cartridge to inflate the pillow. Priced at $30, the 4-oz. device is selling briskly in sporting-goods stores...