Mr. Schettino dropped anchors on one side of the ship, forcing the massive vessel to make an abrupt 180-degree turn that brought it to rest on a shoal.
First, once the ship has been stabilized, an underwater platform will be built and watertight boxes, or caissons, fixed to the side of the ship that is above water.
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So he's nearly lined up now - he'll be looking to see daylight down the side of the ship so as he can go ahead safely to get through the passageway.
The next it was the humpbacks again, as two detached themselves from the main pod to give us the once over, drifting first down one side of the ship, then the other, and finally surfacing right under the bow as we watched with increasing incredulity.
The pair struggled to the other side of the tilting ship, but fell into a flooded chasm and drowned.
Then the white barrels, the wooded hills on the far bank of the river, and beyond the hills the other side of Connecticut, the trip to the whaling ship at Mystic Seaport, somewhere out there Cape Cod, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa.
When the ship is upright, caissons will be fixed to the other side of the hull to stabilize it.
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Born in Milan in 1936, Berlusconi gave notice early on of his showman side by working as a lounge room crooner aboard a cruise ship to help fund his university tuition -- he studied law.
The cargo ship was headed for Jamaica when it ran aground on the northern side of the island in bad weather.
But Pettini (87no) steadied the ship, guiding his side to 277-7 at the close, a deficit of 34 runs.
The usual cargo was wine, but on this trip the ship carried more than 100 passengers hoping to start a new life on the other side of the Atlantic.
His job is to keep the ship on the straight and narrow, avoiding the twin dangers of inflation on the one side and recession on the other.
Helicopters hovered overhead, possibly delivering more supplies to the 3, 143 passengers and 1, 086 crew members trapped on the ship since the fire Sunday off the coast of Mexico left the vessel listing to the side and drifting in Gulf of Mexico currents.
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