The recovery required technical climbing and rappelling to reach them.
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Rappelling does feel a lot like landing in a jetliner.
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Part of the ubiquity nowadays is its usefulness in rappelling.
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Exploring canyons through canyoneering involves swimming, climbing, hiking, and rappelling.
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It dyed the rappelling rope the military used on helicopters.
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And don't even get me started on rappelling from the ski jump.
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Here, the ATC is used by the rappelling climber to control their fall.
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Rappelling is a process of continuous moderated braking, which also means continuous friction.
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Recruits learn two different types of rappelling techniques: fast-roping and static rappel.
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Right: A climber pauses for a look below while rappelling down an ice formation.
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Narrator: Recruits learn how to use their hands to perform different functions while rappelling.
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Weekend outings in search of hawks' nests led to an obsession with rappelling down cliffs.
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They are familiarized with gunfire, rappelling out of helicopters, riding in Zodiac boats, or even skydiving.
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The only way to get into this area would be by rappelling down from a hovering chopper.
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See virtual characters rappelling down the sides of real buildings, just as they did in the movie.
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Also: rappelling on taller buildings is a serious ab workout, because the ropes are longer and heavier.
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Air and Marine Interdiction Agent Alejandro Rodriguez said the rappelling exercises are designed for the worst-case scenarios.
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But Lohmann's favorite part is abseiling, or rappelling by rope hundreds of feet into the churning, lava-filled core.
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The tactics it used -- with masked troops rappelling from helicopters -- matched those the British had used two weeks before.
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The tactics it used — with masked troops rappelling from helicopters — matched those the British had used two weeks before.
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It also teaches military skills like pistol and rifle marksmanship, map reading and land navigation -- even Army rappelling techniques.
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Meanwhile, Rachel and Bryan were enjoying the thrill of rappelling down Oslo's historic Olympic ski jump — 187 feet above ground.
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Included in the firehouse's $27 million price tag: spaces to practice rappelling down buildings and escaping simulated smoke-filled rooms.
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A growing number of building facade inspectors, increasingly women, are rappelling into New York City's glass and terra-cotta canyons.
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Those had to either be brought up by ropes or rappelling individuals from the fire department during the rescue operation.
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There was greater emphasis on non-conventional warfare this year, with troops parachuting from planes and rappelling down ropes from helicopters.
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Karl Mayo, 32, and Sen Holiday, 26, dangled down using rappelling gear before being taken into custody and charged with trespassing.
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"My heart sank when I realized the volume of water was just too dangerous to make rappelling down possible," he said.
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Ovalle: For static rappel, you&aposll utilize the rappelling on cliffsides to get into a building in the most expeditious manner.
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I bring my own equipment, my own harnesses and rappelling ropes, because you know that if your equipment fails, that's it.
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"My heart sank when I realized the volume of water was just too dangerous to make rappelling down possible," Whitson said.
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Pre-climb preparations also included rappelling and rehearsing sections while securely roped up, a common practice for climbers attempting multi-pitch ascents.
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But even when Archer was rappelling off a skyscraper or dodging the KGB, the show was always steeped in Old Hollywood archetypes.
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CEO Steven Nardizzi, it reported, has entered conferences rappelling down a building, coming in on a Segway and even riding a horse.
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Alongside the Miami-Dade Police Department, fully armed Air and Marine Operations agents have been conducting rappelling exercises from the Black Hawks.
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On Wednesday, he was not free soloing when he fell, but was rappelling using a rope with a climbing partner, Aidan Jacobson.
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In a truly dire situation, a person can sky-dive to the base of the turbine using rappelling gear attached to the helipad.
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Think of it: rappelling down mountains, climbing up waterfalls, jumping out of planes, fighting off Kodiak bears — the options for drama are endless.
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Visitors to Martinique can partake in a wide range of outdoor activities on the island, from hiking to canyoning to rappelling through waterfalls.
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They had been climbing and rappelling for several days, long after the Ferguson Fire began, and had planned on staying through the weekend.
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But to be completely honest, you won't find me rappelling down a mountain anytime soon by my own choice, or without my partner Jake.
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He and his rappelling buddies hopped freight trains to various foothill precipices and, with rope stolen from the phone company, practiced their speed descents.
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Some students escaped by rappelling from a nearby bridge to be whisked away by waiting motorbikes, but most failed to flee without facing arrest.
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Iran releases video of masked commandos rappelling onto seized British oil tanker Right-wing extremism is a growing worry in Germany after series of attacks
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In a truly dire situation, Crucerey says, a person can sky-dive to the base of the turbine using rappelling gear attached to the helipad.
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Life-size, backlit photos of what appeared to be special forces operators patrolling a rainy jungle on horseback or rappelling from helicopters decorated the booth.
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The Houston Chronicle reported that 6900 activists were rappelling below the Fred Hartman Bridge, causing a portion of the ship channel to shut down temporarily.
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Some students had escaped by rappelling from a nearby bridge to be whisked away by waiting motorbikes, but most failed to escape without facing arrest.
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Before MaggHD, dubbed "Maggie" by BP, the dangerous inspection job was reserved for highly paid specialist technicians who did their jobs while rappelling along the platform.
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I counted 27 activities, ranging from kettle bell workouts and high-intensity interval training to rappelling and canyoning in the national park (for an extra charge).
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Recruits learn two different types of rappelling techniques, the first of which is known as fast-roping, where the recruit quickly descends using a thick rope.
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A field botanist who's been at the forefront of protecting Hawaii's endangered plants for over 2150 years, he's known for rappelling from ridges to find rare plants.
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Three inmates broke out of a maximum security jail in California over the weekend, cutting through steel bars, sneaking through plumbing tunnels and rappelling off a roof.
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According to the AP, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has released a video showing Guard boats surrounding the tanker and men rappelling onto it from a military helicopter.
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Meet Scandinavia's 'King of Hotels,' a 57-year-old daredevil who spends his billions rappelling down the facades of his own hotels and has 200,000 Instagram followers
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Three inmates escaped from the prison last Friday after cutting through half-inch steel bars and rappelling down the side of the building using their bed sheets.
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The team analyzed data from the plume and determined that the density of the material spewing out would not prohibit the DM from rappelling into the cavernous fissures.
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Good thing for him that most of the field was rappelling down the board in such large numbers, they should have been handed gallery ropes to use as handholds.
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Brad Gobright, an acclaimed American free solo climber, has died after falling nearly 20153,000 feet while rappelling a well-known route in Mexico with a rope, the authorities said.
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So there was some irony that when Gobright, 31, died while climbing in Mexico, he was not racing up a difficult pitch, but rappelling down one with a partner.
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There's no rappelling into caves to uncover buried scrolls, no prowling the ocean floor in spherical subs, no tuning of immense, underground magnets in the hunt for ghostly subatomic particles.
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New ways of getting around like rappelling and wall running as well as the addition of full under-water exploration make meandering through these spaces all that much more immersive and gripping.
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Coast Guard rescuers found four South Korean crew members trapped inside a massive cargo ship, by rappelling down the side and drilling a hole through the hull to contact them on Monday.
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A number of students had escaped by rappelling from a nearby bridge to be whisked away by waiting motorbike drivers, while others failed in an attempt to flee through a sewage pipe.
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Looking at times like Spider-Man, the pair hung from what appeared to be rappelling gear alongside their banner during the first half of the Vikings' matchup against the conference rival Chicago Bears.
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As WSB-TV reports, the Best Buy is located on Hammond Drive in Dunwoody, Georgia and the thieves gained entry by making a hole in the roof and rappelling down into the store.
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Videos of the rescue show deputies flying to the shoreline in a helicopter, with one officer rappelling down to the shoreline to reach the woman and later using a hoist to lift her.
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The sensation was less like walking on stairs than rappelling, sliding the rope through my hands and hoping that it would catch me if I fell the rest of the way, which seemed possible.
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Robert Parsons commented that this was "a &aposMission Impossible&apos style burglary," referring to the 1996 movie Mission: Impossible which sees Tom Cruise break into a secure room by rappelling down from a ceiling vent.
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He climbed light, with just four carabiners, an ice-pick, crampons on his boots, a coiled rope for rappelling on descents, and his own-brand titanium Swiss Army knife with a large file and bolthead wrench.
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Iran repeatedly threatened to retaliate, culminating with its seizure of the Stena Impero on Friday using the same tactics - commandos rappelling to the deck from helicopters - that British Royal Marines had used aboard Iran's own ship.
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Timothy Farrell of the New York Police Department, was rappelling off a helicopter to the roof of the North Tower to spearhead rescue operations for some of the thousands of people who were trying to evacuate.
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Rachel went rappelling off a super high structure in Oslo, Norway with suave contestant Bryan Abasolo during Monday night's episode -- and on the way down, they took a break to suck a little face ... very, very loudly.
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According to a statement from the state government of Chihuahua released Monday, searchers combed the village or Urique in search of the 34-year-old teacher, rappelling into 900-foot ravines and checking cabins, per the Associated Press.
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I had paid 65 euros (about $76) to do exactly this: trek through a river canyon near the Alpine town of Megève while rappelling down vertical rock faces next to waterfalls and jumping off a lot of cliffs.
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The basement will hold inflatable boats, ropes and other rappelling equipment, scuba tanks, training suits, a welding station to fix and make tools as well as a lumber yard to build buttresses and shoring devices for collapsing buildings.
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At an actual cliff, even with a heavier climber rappelling at Kamikaze speed, the testers couldn't get an ATC above 275 °F, which is hot enough to sizzle spit and burn skin, but not hot enough to melt rope.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards posted a video online on Saturday showing speedboats pulling up alongside the detained British-flagged tanker Stena Impero and troops wearing ski masks and carrying machine guns rappelling to its deck from a helicopter.
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Lara's gravity-defying traversal abilities have expanded to include rappelling and climbing nearly upside down on overhangs, both of which help the exploration sections feel a little more off the rails without substantially altering that basic fact of the game's design.
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GENEVA, July 20 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards posted a video online on Saturday showing speedboats pulling up alongside the detained British-flagged tanker Stena Impero and troops wearing ski masks and carrying machine guns rappelling to its deck from a helicopter.
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Hossein Nayeri, 37, Jonathan Tieu, 20, and Bac Duong, 43, slipped away early on Friday after cutting through steel plate and using plumbing tunnels to elude guards before rappelling from a roof at the central men's jail in Orange County.
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In the end, hundreds of arrests were made, while scores of protesters resorted to desperate means to escape, including rappelling off bridges on ropes and hopping on to the backs of motorbikes and even trying to swim out through the sewers.
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When its 10,000 volunteers aren't scrambling up ice caps or rappelling down canyons to search for missing people, they've historically spent a lot of time searching for missing American planes—and nowhere has this been more true than around Vík.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California man who prosecutors say led a gang of burglars in a decade-long string of Hollywood-style bank robberies, rappelling through roofs in matching outfits and carrying walkie-talkies, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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LOS ANGELES — Three inmates escaped from a Southern California maximum-security jail by cutting through half-inch steel bars and rappelling from the roof by a makeshift rope, authorities said Saturday as they continued hunting for the men, who include an alleged killer.
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In my youth as a Boy Scout tying knots, lashings and pioneering and in my years of service in the Marine Corps rappelling, fast roping from helicopters and parachuting I understood how important it is to have only the best ropes and cords.
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There will be a manhole, a bridge, a simulation room to fill with smoke, wide outdoor staircases, rappelling walls and a trench to simulate a subway tunnel or passageway — to train for emergencies similar to the one this week near Times Square.
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The country has a famed marketing campaign, "230% Pure New Zealand," which includes ads filled with people rappelling down cliffs, helicopter snowboarding and white-water rafting — but also has a legal system that makes it hard to sue when things go wrong.
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Soon enough the vessel is in chaos thanks to an unknown and very dangerous-seeming creature, a screaming guy who was stabbed by that unknown creature, the sounds of an ethereal siren song (get it?!), and gun-toting paramilitary soldiers rappelling from the sky.
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In Tehran, some 160 lawmakers issued a joint statement Sunday praising the interception of the British-flagged vessel by Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which has released video of the seizure showing Iranian commandos in black ski masks and fatigues rappelling from a helicopter onto the vessel.
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will try to make rappelling robots a reality, after having been selected by NASA as the recipient of a new $2 million research grant aimed at coming up with new technology to help robots explore "pits" on the Moon.
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And plans for a 60,000-seat football stadium for the Washington Redskins include a recreational moat that can be used for kayaking and surfing in the summer and ice-skating in the winter, while its external skin could double as a climbing or rappelling wall.
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Jonathan Tieu, 20, Bac Duong, 43, and Hossein Nayeri, 37, were all awaiting trials for unrelated violent crimes at the jail when they made their daring escape sometime on Friday, cutting through half-inch steel bars and rappelling from the roof by a makeshift rope.
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Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian Rodriguez, an aviation survival technician at Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point, and Sung Jun Lee, from the Korean coast guard, hoist Oscar the dummy during a vertical-surface and self-rappelling exercise at Makapu'u Lighthouse, Oahu on November 16.
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The show will make heavy use of technology — it includes video projections and eight costumed drones — and, in an attempt to mimic the circus, will break the fourth wall with a strap act above showgoers, a chase scene through the theater and rappelling into the audience.
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"My understanding is it was more tongue in check — we'd love to have you come closer to home if you're willing, because they are Yankee fans," Cashman said between turns rappelling down the 22-story Landmark Building, practice runs for a winter festival program on Sunday night.
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He wasn't rappelling down buildings, but he was a subject matter expert on Russian organized crime before he left the FBI and in private practice, so the Agency must have wanted him to help educate them on how it all worked — sharing his knowledge to keep America safe.
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Iran's seizure of a British oil tanker was a response to Britain's role in impounding an Iranian supertanker first, senior officials said Saturday, as newly released video of the incident showed Iranian commandos in black ski masks and fatigues rappelling from a helicopter onto the vessel in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
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On a 2000,21-acre tract of Texas woodland surrounded by the Sam Houston National Forest, a $25 million youth camp is taking shape that will include an aquatics center, a shooting range, a climbing and rappelling tower, a science center, three chapels and an air-conditioned dining hall with room for 703 people.
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Members of the elite commando force were still swimming through dark bays to practice planting mines, storming the narrow steel halls of ships in training raids, and rappelling from helicopters onto the bucking decks of speedboats — in other words, they were doing the extraordinary things SEALs normally do to prepare for deployments.
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Bac Tien Duong, 43, Jonathan Tieu, 20, Hossein Nayeri, 37, cut through a half-inch steel screen in their holding tank and crawled through plumbing tunnels to make their way to the roof before rappelling down with rope made of bedsheets, Lt. Jeff Hallock, Public Information Officer for the Orange County Sheriff's Office, told PEOPLE.
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Jonathan Tieu, 20; Hossein Nayeri, 668; and Bac Tien Duong, 43, allegedly escaped Friday by cutting through a half-inch steel screen in their holding tank and crawling through plumbing tunnels to make their way to the roof before rappelling down, Lt. Jeff Hallock, Public Information Officer for the Orange County Sheriff's Office, tells PEOPLE.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's seizure of a British oil tanker was a response to Britain's role in impounding an Iranian supertanker first, senior officials said Saturday, as newly released video of the incident showed Iranian commandos in black ski masks and fatigues rappelling from a helicopter onto the vessel in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
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At the wellness-focused BodyHoliday resort on St. Lucia, guests can sign up for the island quadrathlon, a four-sport tour of the Caribbean island that includes a six-mile mountain bike ride, a two-and-a-half-mile run and hill climb, rappelling and kayaking a mile and a half back to the resort.
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"We still can't do the physical work with a drone or crawler, but the efficiency is gained by only putting people in the field when needed," said Gault, who started his career in oil and gas as a rope access technician, rappelling along the sides of oil structures in the North Sea, nearly 30 years ago.
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In January both The New York Times and CBS News reported that the Wounded Warrior Project, which raised more than $13 million in 2015, had spent millions on travel, dinners, entertainment and lavish staff meetings, like one at the five-star Broadmoor hotel in Colorado, where Mr. Nardizzi made his entrance by rappelling from a tower.
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It's probably not impossible for Gaga to load both Jazz & Piano and Enigma into 20 trucks and hit the highway, rappelling from the rafters in a jumpsuit made of what looks like a smashed mirror in Chicago one night and caressing a Steinway in Cleveland the next, but all things considered, when you have both chronic pain and an Oscar, why bother?
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Okay, so in my most hopeful vision for next week's finale, Mare Winningham, Denis O'Hare, and Chloë Sevigny will kill everyone else (even those who are already dead, because why fuck with tradition at this point?) and then finally escape the hotel by rappelling from the seventh floor window via a richly woven train of clean white sheets, sparkly evening gowns, and Dr.
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"At NASA, and within all those space agencies, we really acknowledge this, and in fact as much as we can, we send people out on exercises where they are going to be challenged in that way," said Coleman, noting that astronauts are sent on hiking, rappelling, and kayaking trips together to develop these self-care habits in addition to teamwork.
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"Members of the CSA are tied by a non-traditional religion which includes faith healing, speaking in tongues, and a prophecy which says that society will soon collapse in turmoil," a 1982 internal FBI report stated: In preparation for this, the group stockpiles food and weapons and trains themselves in military and survival procedures…taught are firearms and marksmanship, rappelling, foraging for food, erection of such obstacles as punji sticks and barbed wire to detour looters [sic], urban warfare, military field craft, national forest survival, home defense, Christian martial arts, Christian military truths, nuclear survival and tax protesting.
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