The participants in Dr Bolli's study were 23 unfortunates who had each had at least one heart attack in the past, and were thus lined up for coronary-bypass surgery, in which the furred-up blood supply to the heart is replaced with an alternative artery crafted from a blood vessel taken from elsewhere usually the leg.
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Jordan was with friends on board the ferry when he leapt from the vessel.
Ian Clayton from the RNLI said there were concerns about possible environmental damage if oil started leaking from the vessel.
Four inflatable Zodiacs dart back and forth from the vessel, bringing tourists to shore to see the penguins up close.
It was a historic location, with a commanding view of the strait that separates Europe from Asia, and the site drew awe from any vessel passing by.
Officials said that so far there's no sign the hull of the Kulluk has been breached or that oil has spilled from the vessel.
This is a large calcite crystal recovered from a vessel that went down off the coast of Alderney, in the Channel Islands, in Elizabethan times.
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Mr Clayton said there were concerns about possible environmental damage if oil started leaking from the vessel, but there have been no reports of any leaks.
Gliders, moreover, give a continuous view of what is going on, rather than the series of snapshots yielded by equipment lowered from a vessel at the surface.
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From our vessel, which is part of a 40-watercraft flotilla of paddleboards, pleasure craft and dinghies, we watch 35-foot waves crash and clatter, mixing sea spray with diesel fumes.
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Mr. Gillespie said he raised the money from public contributions and chartered a research vessel from the University of Hawaii for the voyage.
There's a rare ritual wine vessel from the Shang Dynasty some 3, 000 years old.
It took authorities about three days to recover the rest of the drugs from the sunken vessel.
The Seahouses Lifeboat Station received a distress call from the cargo vessel Danio in the early hours of Saturday.
News of the operation came after a US captain made an unsuccessful overnight bid to escape from another seized vessel off Somalia.
The main tow line was attached from a towing vessel earlier in the day in preparation for the refloating when ocean conditions were favorable.
This and other evidence has convinced the researchers that the cannon came from a British vessel sunk at the Battle of Cape Passaro in 1718.
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Argentine and Chilean ships rescued 770 survivors from the sunken vessel.
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Happy Feet was released from the research vessel Tangaroa on 4 September into the Southern Ocean about 50 miles (80km) north of the remote Campbell Island.
Documents quoted by the paper are said to show that Mr Abbas bought the vessel from its former owners, a Lebanese shipping company, on 31 August last year.
While we are there, a call comes in from a merchant vessel, very concerned about a fishing boat towing a "skiff, " a slim, fast speedboat favoured by the pirates.
The Plastiki's name is wordplay off the "Kon-Tiki, " a balsa raft made famous by Norwegian Thor Heyerdahl, who in 1947 sailed the vessel from Peru to the Polynesian islands.
Staff from the Sea Launch company, which organised the launch, direct all missions from a support vessel that sits at a safe distance of about 6.5km uprange of the platform.
As many as 1, 500 residents of the northern Illinois city of Marseilles were evacuated after seven barges broke free from a towing vessel and struck a dam on the Illinois River.
There is an image of a courier vessel from 1926 on the 53p stamp, and an RNLI lifeboat, from the present day, is shown off the coast of Corbelets Bay on the 69p stamp.
One lighter moment came when the BBC's venerable agriculture correspondent, Archie McPhee, who also doubled as fisheries correspondent, landed in Iceland from a British vessel, without taking the precaution of checking in with immigration.
Armed commandos boarded the target vessel simultaneously from a boat and helicopter in a meticulously timed exercise.
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Hours before the scheduled departure time, she received an email from Carnival stating the vessel would leave late because of a propulsion problem.
The activists travelled by inflatable speedboats from a nearby Greenpeace vessel and used ropes and ladders to climb up mooring lines, the group said in a statement.
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But ever since a preliminary investigation of the Cheonan's salvaged stern concluded that the blast did not come from on board the vessel, suspicions have turned towards North Korea.
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