mooring

The mooring lines tethered to the ocean floor are made of rope nearly thick as a telephone pole and under heavy tension.

Rain had filled the gully and a heavy flow of muddy water loosened his board from its gravel mooring.

Analysis of mooring observations and hydrographic data suggest the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation deep water limb in the North Atlantic has weakened.

The research team analyzed two decades of deep sea oceanographic data collected by observational mooring programs to show that a critical piece of Earth's global system of ocean currents in the North Atlantic has weakened by about 12 percent over the past two decades.

The man commandeered the fireboat, known as the John J. Harvey, by untying it from its mooring at Pier 66 off the west side of Manhattan, according to authorities.