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John Jay Pool and Recreation 77th St and Cherokee Pl (east of York Ave.); Daily 11am-7pm; 212-794-6566.
Main Pool 4 feet deep.
Separate Diving Pool.
No flotation devices except full-body flotation suits allowed.
Master locks required for lockers.
Adjacent playground with sprinklers.
CSX Train Q693-21 rounds the curve at the Mica Street Crossing at Quartz Corp's Plant #s 3 and 4 off Altapass Road along the CSX Blue Ridge Subdivision/ former Clinchfield South End. This spot was at one time known by the railroad as SE Flotation but the SE switch has since been taken out of service as Quatrz Corp no longer trades with the railroad at any of its Altapass Facilities.
The bridge deck has had its ply glued down and the cockpit lockers have been cut. The forard ones remain open, but have limber holes to self-drain onto the deck. The aft ones have 1/4 turn waterproof hatch fittings. The plans don't specify a floor for under the aft end of the seats; ie no locker, but I thought some reserve buoyancy up nice and high might be useful after a knock-down. The higher (relative to the hull weight) the flotation is, the more likely the hull is to remain upright I think. Quite a lot of useful space and air in there.
POHANG, South Korea- Crewmembers of Coast Guard Port Security Unit (PSU) 313 from Everett, Wash., conduct a pre-mission gear inspection of tactical flotation systems for use during a Combined Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore Exercise (CJLOTS), April 16, 2013. PSU’s deploy to conduct port security and defense operations in support of combatant commands by providing waterborne and land-based anti-terrorism force protection. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Etta Smith/Released)
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Pararescuemen and Combat Rescue Officers with the New York Air National Guard's 103rd Rescue Squadron, 106th Rescue Wing, supported by the Hawaii Air National Guard's 154th Wing, 204th Airlift Squadron, conduct personnel recovery training in order to test the new "Front Porch" flotation device for NASA's Orion Crew Module.
This training was conducted alongside NASA personnel at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii during Exercise SENTRY ALOHA March 7, 2017. A major element of this two week TDY is to participate in a joint NASA and Defense Department mission to evaluate recovery techniques and gear that will be used to recover NASA's Orion spacecraft, the next generation of American space vehicle.
US Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Muncy
Ed, my fellow Bluejacket builder, obtained Styrofoam material left over from a roofing job. As usual he worked a great $ deal.
Sun 27 June 2010 - Margate Raft Race from Nayland Rock to Harbour. - The Bay, Margate Main Sands. - Although The Madhouse Bar raft broke up and capsized they managed to save their team mascot.
S67-49423 (9 Nov. 1967) --- The Apollo Spacecraft 017 Command Module, with flotation collar still attached, is hoisted aboard the USS Bennington, prime recovery ship for the Apollo 4 (Spacecraft 017/Saturn 501) unmanned, Earth-orbital space mission. The Command Module splashed down at 3:37 p.m. (EST), Nov. 9, 1967, 934 nautical miles northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, in the mid-Pacific Ocean. Note charred heat shield caused by extreme heat of reentry.
3110. The Sea King could carry four Mk44 or Mk45 torpedoes. The big helicopter's marine-shaped under-carriage and flotation tanks are seen to advantage here.
Looking at this photo, and the preceding one of the same aircraft indistress, one can see that in the earlier image it is already sitting quite deep in the water.
Photo: RAN Official, it appears in Ross Gillett's book 'Wings Across the Sea' [Aerospace Publications, Canberra 1988] p107.
One of the two Blackburn Swift aircraft purchased by the U.S. Navy from Breat Britain pictured in flight near NAS San Diego.
"In search for a capable torpedo aircraft following World War I, the Navy procured an array of aircraft to fulfill this mission. Among them were two examples of the British-built Blackburn Swift. A single-seat aircraft with the pilot sitting in a humped cockpit, the aircraft featured wheels that could be released in the event of an emergency, flotation bags, and folding wings."
Robert L. Lawson Photograph Collection, Naval Aviation Museum
To replace various helicopters in service at the time, namely the SH-34 Seahorse, the US Navy awarded Sikorsky a contract to develop a helicopter that would combine several roles into one airframe: hunter/killer antisubmarine warfare, cargo transport, and search and rescue. It would also have to be capable of amphibious operations and had to be able to operate from smaller ships as well as aircraft carriers. Sikorsky’s HSS-2 Sea King was the response, and it first flew in March 1959. The HSS-2 had a distinctive “boat” hull for water landings, including flotation bags in the sponsons, good visibility from the cockpit, and a folding tail section for stowage. In the antisubmarine role, the HSS-2 was equipped with a dipping sonar unreeled from the forward hull, 21 sonobuoys, and a MAD “bird” capable of being deployed from the port sponson. In 1962, the type’s designation was changed to SH-3A.
The SH-3 would remain in US Navy service for the next 50 years. During Vietnam, it operated in plane guard duties for carriers, the first aircraft to launch and the last to recover; it also served in SAR duties from the carriers and smaller ships, flying over water and often over land to rescue downed pilots. In this role, the SH-3 is probably responsible for the rescue of more people than any other aircraft type. Dedicated SAR helicopters often were equipped with heavy or light machine guns. Other versions were converted to UH-3 utility helicopters (for vertical replenishment and light cargo duties) and VH-3 VIP transports. The latter were the last Sea Kings in US service.
The US Navy began replacing the aging SH-3 following the First Gulf War, with ASW/SAR SH-3s mostly gone from fleet service by 1997. Cargo and utility variants remained in service until 2006. Besides its service in the US armed forces, Sea Kings were heavily exported to 17 air forces, including license-built versions made by Westland (Sea Kings), United Aircraft of Canada (CH-124), Agusta (AS-61), and Mitsubishi (HSS-2); foreign variants are used both in traditional roles for the Sea King, as well as antishipping duties, troop transports, minesweeping, and even airborne early warning. It remains in service worldwide.
When I noticed the side number of this SH-3 and the squadron--66 and HS-4--I got pretty excited: HS-4 (now HSC-4, "Black Knights") was assigned to my dad's carrier, USS Yorktown (CVS-10) from 1960 to 1968, and "Fetch 66," as it was known, was part of the recovery team for Apollo 8. Dad rode briefly in Fetch 66 while being transferred temporarily to a destroyer. If this was the same helicopter, it would be an amazing coincidence to photograph it 50 years after Dad rode in it.
However, this is not the "real" Fetch 66, which handled recovery duties for all the Apollo missions, and HS-4 was assigned to USS Hornet when the Yorktown transferred to the East Coast. The real helicopter, Bureau Number 152711, crashed in the Pacific Ocean in 1975 with the loss of the pilot, though the rest of the crew was rescued. This "SH-3" is actually 149006, a UH-3H utility helicopter repainted to look like a SH-3D.
Whatever its origin, it has been particularly well restored as Fetch 66, and is shown recovering a mockup Apollo capsule. It carries the standard US Navy Vietnam-era color scheme for SH-3s, with white over light gray (a reverse of combat aircraft). The "Abandon Chute" legend on the bottom is an instruction for downed pilots to cut away their parachutes, so they would not fill with water or be dragged by the downwash from the rotors.
S65-18528 (23 March 1965) --- The USS Intrepid pulls up alongside the Gemini-3 spacecraft during recovery operations following the successful Gemini-Titan 3 flight. Navy swimmers stand on the spacecraft's flotation collar waiting to hook a hoist line to the Gemini-3.
U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers with the 1051st Transportation Company, South Carolina National Guard, conduct water survival training April 10, 2022, at Parris Island, South Carolina. The Soldiers were instructed on flotation and swim techniques, and survival skills to increase floatation, with the goal being to help Soldiers stay afloat for at least five minutes. (U.S. Army National Guard Courtesy Photo)
Designers: Jesse Zachery & Jeffery Grothe
Title: Torque: The Superhero From Trash
Materials: Old bike tires, found helmet, foam bedding, old snowboard goggles and snow boots. Aluminum shavings, netting, and scrap. Blue inflatable intertube and used kitchen gloves. Red netting, old hip flotation foam, subwoofer, shoe strings, old kids football shoulder pads. Ductape, LED touchlight, paper.
DD or Duplex Drive tanks, nicknamed "Donald Duck tanks", were a type of amphibious swimming tank developed by the British during the Second World War. The phrase is mostly used for the Duplex Drive variant of the M4 Sherman medium tank, that was used by the Western Allies during and after the Normandy Landings in June 1944.
DD tanks worked by erecting a 'flotation screen' around the tank, which enabled it to float, and had a propeller powered by the tank's engine to drive them in the water.
The DD tanks were one of the many specialised assault vehicles, collectively known as Hobart's Funnies, devised to support the planned invasion of Europe.
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The Double D Pool is so called because it sits on Douglas and Degraw in Boerum Hill. It has both a large swimming pool and a good-sized kiddie pool that you can get in with your toddler or baby.
Douglas and DeGraw
Thomas Greene Playground
Third Avenue and Nevins Street
Setting: Outdoors
Type: Wading
(718) 625-3268
Dimensions: 24' x 24' x 1'
Douglas and DeGraw
Thomas Greene Playground
Third Avenue and Nevins Street
Setting: Outdoors
Type: Intermediate
(718) 625-3268
Dimensions: 75' x 60' x 3' 10"
No flotation devices except full-body flotation suits allowed.
Master locks required for lockers.
Only Towel, book, sunglasses, lotion allowed on Pool deck. No toys, no strollers, no phones. NYC Public outdoor pools open during public school summer vacation.
NYPD officer on duty.
SOUTH CHINA SEA (Nov. 13, 2015) A U.S. Marine with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit passes out flotation devices to Marines waiting to load an aircraft aboard the USS Essex (LHD 2). The 15th MEU is currently deployed in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region to promote regional stability and security in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Elize McKelvey/Released)
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There are several species known as cotton tree in Brazil, almost all belonging to the genus Ceiba (formerly Chorisia family Malvaceae (previously Bombacaceae)In all, the best known species is the cotton tree Ceiba speciosa (St.-Hill.) Ravenna, native forests of Brazil and Bolivia, initially described as Chorisia speciosa St. Hilaire 1828.FEATURES: -It is a tree with up to twenty feet tall, gray-green stem with grooves and photosynthetic strong blunt spines, very sharp in the younger branches.The trunk of Painswick has a good ability to synthesize chlorophyll (photosynthesis) and greenish to have when you have a good size, that helps growth even when the tree is bare of leaves, is also common Paineiras present a kind of enlargement on base of the stem, hence the nickname "paunchy". Detail of the trunk, with photosynthetic tissues (photographed in Portugal)The leaves are composed slaps and fall during flowering. The flowers are large, with five pink petals with red spots and white edges. There are a variety of less common, with white flowers. Paineira-white, less common variety, with white flowers in the park Ceret, in Sao Paulo, Brazil Their reproductive organs are united in a long androginóforo.The fruits are green capsules which, when ripe, burst (dehiscent), exposing the seeds wrapped in fine white fibers that aid in flotation and which are called kapok. From twenty years old, approximately (southeastern Brazil), the spines usually start to fall in the lower stem and gradually also fall in the higher parts of the tree, with thickening of the shell. It is said, in Brazil, this allows the tree to get birds' nests, which would be impossible to happen when it had long, sharp thorns, so flowers and fruits are no longer present, but the tree continues to give its contribution to Nature hosting the birds. This is not a rule for all Painswick, Painswick some with more than twenty meters, for example, still have very large thorns on the lower, probably as a defense of the local insects.
Há várias espécies conhecidas como paineira no Brasil, quase todas pertencendo ao gênero Ceiba (antes, Chorisia da família Malvaceae (antes, Bombacaceae)
De todas, a mais conhecida é a paineira da espécie Ceiba speciosa (St.-Hill.) Ravenna, nativa das florestas brasileiras e da Bolívia, inicialmente descrita como Chorisia speciosa St. Hilaire 1828.
CARACTERÍSTICAS:-
É uma árvore com até vinte metros de altura, tronco cinzento-esverdeado com estrias fotossintéticas e fortes acúleos rombudos, muito afiados nos ramos mais jovens.
O tronco das paineiras tem boa capacidade de sintetizar clorofila (fazer fotossíntese) e tem coloração esverdeada até quando tem um bom porte; isto auxilia o crescimento mesmo quando a árvore está despida de folhas; é comum, também, paineiras apresentarem uma espécie de alargamento na base do caule, daí o apelido "barriguda".
Detalhe do tronco, com tecidos fotossintéticos (fotografada em Portugal)
As folhas são compostas palmadas e caem na época da floração. As flores são grandes, com cinco pétalas rosadas com pintas vermelhas e bordas brancas. Há uma variedade menos comum, com flores brancas.
Paineira-branca, variedade menos comum, com flores brancas, no parque Ceret, em São Paulo, no Brasil
Seus órgãos reprodutivos encontram-se unidos em um longo androginóforo.
Os frutos são cápsulas verdes, que, quando maduras, rebentam (deiscentes), expondo as sementes envoltas em fibras finas e brancas que auxiliam na flutuação e que são chamadas paina.
A partir dos vinte anos de idade, aproximadamente (sudeste brasileiro), os espinhos costumam começar a cair na parte baixa do caule e, gradualmente, também caem nas partes mais altas da árvore, com o engrossamento da casca. Diz-se, no Brasil, que isto permite à árvore receber ninhos de pássaros, o que seria impossível de acontecer quando esta tinha espinhos longos e pontiagudos; assim, flores e frutos já não estão presentes, mas a árvore continua a dar sua contribuição à natureza hospedando os passarinhos. Esta não é uma regra para todas as paineiras; algumas paineiras com mais de vinte metros, por exemplo, continuam com espinhos muito grandes na parte baixa, provavelmente como defesa de insetos do local.
Park Ranger Dean Austin, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, demonstrates the use of an inflatable personal flotation device to West Cheatham Elementary School Students May 3, 2013 on Environmental Awareness Day at Ashland City, Tenn. He explained that they are only for adult use but suggested they share the information with their parents. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts)
Sun 27 June 2010 - Margate Raft Race from Nayland Rock to Harbour. - The Bay, Margate Main Sands. - First time participants Hartsdown Techical College team, 4th finishers and 2nd in Class B finished. - Exhasted but elated.
1" radius fillet, then 6" wide biaxial tape for the inside of the stitch and glue joint to the bottom panel. 6 mm shims brought the width at B#5 in a bit. This smoothed the curve of the inside seat panel, and looked better.
I did not put the vent holes in the seat bulkheads as designed. This way there are 4 separate compartments per side, and one leaking hatch does not lose all flotation. I usually get in trouble changing the design, so it remains to be seen if this is a problem.
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON -- Soldiers from the 4th Quartermaster Detachment conduct combat water survival training at Buckner Physical Fitness Center, JBER-Richardson, Sept. 1. Training included treading water for 5 minutes, completion of two separate 25 meter swims, one with rucksack and then M-4 Carbine, making of flotation devices from the Army Combat Uniforms, and finally a 3-meter platform dive and 25-meter swim with their weapons. (U.S. Air Force/Percy G. Jones)
S69-21036 (26 May 1969) --- A Navy helicopter arrives to recover the Apollo 10 astronauts, seen entering a life raft, as their spacecraft floats in the South Pacific immediately after touchdown. U.S. Navy underwater demolition team swimmers assist in the recovery operations. Already in the life raft are astronauts Thomas P. Stafford (left), commander, and John W. Young (right), command module pilot. Splashdown occurred at 11:53 a.m., May 26, 1969, about 400 miles east of American Samoa and about four miles from the recovery ship to conclude a successful eight-day lunar orbit mission. Note that in this photo the divers have attached a flotation collar to the spacecraft.
Pararescuemen and Combat Rescue Officers with the New York Air National Guard's 103rd Rescue Squadron, 106th Rescue Wing, supported by the Hawaii Air National Guard's 154th Wing, 204th Airlift Squadron, conduct personnel recovery training in order to test the new "Front Porch" flotation device for NASA's Orion Crew Module.
This training was conducted alongside NASA personnel at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii during Exercise SENTRY ALOHA March 6, 2017. A major element of this two week TDY is to participate in a joint NASA and Defense Department mission to evaluate recovery techniques and gear that will be used to recover NASA's Orion spacecraft, the next generation of American space vehicle.
US Air National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Christopher S. Muncy
This is the biggest in the Europe body of waste deposits flotation after copper ore belonging to KGHM Polska Miedz. Why the biggest?
- total area: 1400 ha
- current capacity: 340 000 000 m3
- projected capacity: 1 100 000 000 m3
- lenght of body's barrier: 14,3 km
- height of barrier: 20 - 45 m
- area of "beach": 770 ha
- area of basin: 624 ha
Podstawowe funkcje zbiornika wiążą się z gospodarką wodno-szlamową 3-ch Zakładów Wzbogacania Rud, które prowadzą wzbogacanie urobku górniczego rud miedzi metodą flotacji. Koncentraty miedzi uzyskane w wyniku wzbogacania stanowią jedynie około 4-6 % wagi urobku. Większość wydobytej skały jest odpadem, który zostaje zagospodarowywany na powierzchni.
Proces flotacji wymaga użycia dużej ilości wody – 4-5 m3/t nadawy rudy do flotacji. Odpady z flotacji są szlamem w stanie płynnym, w którym części stałe zajmują 6,5-8,7% objętości. Odpady są transportowane rurociągami na składowisko Żelazny Most. W składowisku następuje sedymentacja fazy stałej, a woda sklarowana jest ujmowana i ponownie kierowana do ZWR-ów. Woda cyrkuluje stale w obiegu pomiędzy ZWR-ami i składowiskiem.
Roczna wielkość deponowanych odpadów z flotacji waha się od 20 do 26 mln ton, z czego prawie 75 % wykorzystywanych jest do dalszej nadbudowy, a jedynie 25 % podlega procesowi unieszkodliwiania. Składowisko „Żelazny Most” jest obecnie jedynym miejscem deponowania odpadu z flotacji dla wszystkich kopalń, co powoduje, że stanowi ono kluczowe ogniwo technologiczne, bez którego produkcja koncentratu miedziowego byłaby niemożliwa.
Obok podstawowej funkcji, jaką jest utylizacja odpadów, akwen utworzony w centralnej części składowiska „Żelazny Most” pełni jednocześnie funkcję osadnika klarującego wody nadosadowe użytkowane w obiegu flotacji, a ze względu na dużą pojemność również zbiornika retencyjno-dozujacego nadmiar wody kopalniano-technologicznej w obiegu. Od 1978 r., metodą hydrotechniczną (okresowo), nadmiar wody odprowadzany jest do Odry.
Źródłem uciążliwości ze strony składowiska „Żelazny Most” były unoszone okresowo, przy sprzyjających warunkach wietrznych, pyły z przesuszonych powierzchni zbiornika. Już w 1984 r. podjęto działania zapobiegające pyleniu. Wprowadzono „kurtyny wodne” – systemy rurociągów ze zraszaczami, zabezpieczanie plaż roztworami wodnymi emulsji asfaltowej przy użyciu śmigłowców i specjalistycznych pojazdów oraz systematyczne obudowy biologiczne zapory.
Składowisko „Żelazny Most” jest zasadniczym elementem zamkniętego obiegu technologicznego wód mineralizowanych KGHM, ich nadmiar kierowany jest do rzeki Odry. System oczyszczalni skutecznie chroni przed zanieczyszczeniem zawiesiną i metalami ciężkimi, a rurociągi umieszczone w dnie rzeki umożliwiają równomierne wymieszanie wód. Na bieżąco prowadzone są obserwacje i badania monitorujące zanieczyszczenie powietrza atmosferycznego, gleb i roślin, wód powierzchniowych i podziemnych oraz stanu zdrowotnego zwierząt gospodarskich, co stanowi podstawę do prowadzenia programów działań zmierzających do poprawy stanu środowiska.
First place, Animals in Nature, by Kelsey Aasness.
Local amateur photographers submitted 101 photographs for an interagency contest during the 21st Annual Sportsmen’s & Outdoor Recreation Show in Roseburg. Ten photographers received the top awards as voted by people attending the outdoor show.
The contest included five categories – “Scenery”, “People Enjoying Nature”, “Animals in Nature”, “Flat Smokey in the Photo”, and “Selfies in the Woods” – and one “Best in Show” category.
Abigail McEnroe of Roseburg earned the “Best in Show” award, having received the most votes for her photograph of a young boy and dog, both wearing personal flotation devices, peering over the bow of a raft. She also won an additional first and third place in the “People Enjoying Nature” category and second place in the “Scenery” category.
This was the fifth “Land of Umpqua Amateur Photo Contest” sponsored jointly by the Bureau of Land Management, Roseburg District and Umpqua National Forest. More than 420 people stopped by the agencies’ booth to vote for their favorite photos.
Videographed 29 June 2019, Upper Pool, GMNWR Concord Impoundments, Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
In the capacity of USFWS Volunteer doing a marshbird survey of the Upper Pool of the Concord Impoundments, I got caught far from any available shelter when a fast moving, powerful series of electrical cells past through. This lasted 30 or so minutes. I buried myself in some cattails, put a flotation cushion over my head, and rounded into a ball. Yes, it was that bad. During one portion, I videoed the deluge.
In the video below, you will hear dead sounds, pops, and reduced/altered sound. That because the lightning was so close and so frequent, it disrupted the ability of the receiver to process sound. Additionally, the thunder was so loud that it clipped the input signals and you do not hear the full effect of the very, very loud thunder. Watch the cattails to see the flashes of light to see how continuous the strikes were. I hung in there and proceeded to have a wonderful array of breeding marsh birds.
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Soldiers from the 4th Quartermaster Detachment conduct combat water survival training at Buckner Physical Fitness Center, JBER-Richardson, Sept. 1. Training included treading water for 5 minutes, completion of two separate 25 meter swims, one with rucksack and then M-4 Carbine, making of flotation devices from the Army Combat Uniforms, and finally a 3-meter platform dive and 25-meter swim with their weapons. (U.S. Air Force/Justin Connaher)
ZJ241 / L (cn 36164) One of the DHFS Griffin HT.1s is seen here in the Search & Rescue Training Unit (SARTU) hangar at RAF Valley. SARTU is a detachment of the Defence Helicopter Flying School (DHFS), which is based at RAF Shawbury. All DHFS and SARTU aircraft are provided by contractor FB Heliservices under contract CP12/2015. SARTU Griffins differ from the rest of the fleet in that they have flotation gear and winch equipment.
On a whim, two energetic high school science teachers decided to enter their high school, a Title I school where most of the students live in poverty, into a sophisticated underwater robotics competition sponsored by NASA and the Office of Naval Research, among others. Only four boys signed up for the competition, but once assembled, with enthusiasm and verve, they started calling oceanic engineers and military contractors for design help. They were advised that their underwater robot would require glass syntactic flotation foam. Short on money, all they could afford was PVC pipe from Home Depot. And some duct tape. Narrated by Michael Pena, Underwater Dreams is the true story of how the sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants learned how to build underwater robots. This rag-tag high school team of undocumented Mexican boys did what no one thought possible. The competition, however, was only the beginning. The boys forged a legacy that could not have been imagined: a legacy of aspiration, of activism, and of dreamers.
Mary Mazzio, Angelica V. Hernandez, Jonathan Alter
Paepcke Auditorium
Sun 27 June 2010 - Margate Raft Race from Nayland Rock to Harbour. - The Bay, Margate Main Sands. - Class B and Overall Winners Barnacles approaching the finish.
After the water level has been lowered, the gates are opened to allow the vessel to transit to the next lock. Each gate leaf is 35 ft. long and they are sealed to contribute flotation to lower the hinge loads.
IMG_8300e; Gate Opening