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n. (ballast tank English)
Usage examples of "ballast tanks".
A good sharp whiff of air into the ballast tanks, and we'll give our well-known imitation of a bull at a gate.
Before Zent could react, Bushka kicked loose the dive planes, skewed the control surfaces to starboard and blew the rear ballast tanks while he opened the bow valves.
Nine were permanent ballast tanks, to be used for nothing but pure seawater to give her stability when she was empty of cargo.
Emptying the ballast tanks with the flotation tanks still full put positive lift on the boat.
The high-pressure air in the ballast tanks spilled out of the bottom floods and the tanks filled with water, dropping the angle of the boat and submerging her.
He gave out the story that there was a problen with the ballast tanks, and repairs were in effect.
But if I wanted to send her to the bottom with no fuss or muss, I'd blow out either the hull or the ballast tanks.
That's water being blown from the ballast tanks by high pressure air - something like three thousand pounds per square inch.
In less than a minute the correct amount of water was pumped into the forward and aft ballast tanks.
Explosive charges will blow off all the ballast tanks, and up we go.
The three men struggling at the panel had their eyes fixed on Farge while he gave the after main ballast tanks all the air he dared - but he continued blowing, listening for the rising whine of the main motors, feeling with the soles of his feet for the angle to come off, watching for a decrease in depth.
With her ballast tanks pumped dry to raise her hull out of the water to reduce drag, she made a strange sight with her stern dug deep in water thrashed white by wildly turning screws, her bows lifted nearly free of the troughs before bursting aside the crest of the next rolling swell.
We ride low because we fill specially installed ballast tanks to give the appearance of a heavily laden ship.
The ship began to rise almost imperceptibly as the ballast tanks emptied.