All 16 Uses
ballast
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- Flood the main ballast tanks.†
Chpt 1. *
- The Red October's hull was filled with the noise of rushing air as vents at the top of the ballast tanks were opened and water entering from the tank floods at the bottom chased the buoying air out.†
Chpt 1.
- He had to get her to the surface immediately, and he shouted orders to blow all ballast and make full rise on the diving planes.†
Chpt 8.
- With all her ballast tanks now blasted free of water by compressed air, the submarine was very light, and she rose like a climbing aircraft.†
Chpt 8.
- 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.†
Chpt 8.
- They had heard the ballast tanks refill; this could only mean interior compartments were filling with water.†
Chpt 8.
- Her missile tubes had been filled with ballast and sealed months before.†
Chpt 10.
- Johnsen reached up and pulled the release handle for the iron ballast.†
Chpt 15.
- "Comrade Mannion, vent the ballast tanks," Ramius said.†
Chpt 17.
- The ballast tanks were now fully flooded, and the balancing act would have to be done with the much smaller trim tanks.†
Chpt 17.
- Inside it was a water-filled ballast tank, a beehive of cellular baffles seven feet across.†
Chpt 17.
- The force of the explosion had torn a hole twelve feet across, shredded the interior ballast tank baffles, and ruptured a half-dozen air flasks, but already much of its force had been dissipated.†
Chpt 17.
- The October was sitting still on the surface, down by the bow and listing twenty degrees to port from the vented ballast tanks.†
Chpt 17.
- The forward ballast tanks were permanently vented to the sea, but the submarine was so big and her ballast tanks so subdivided that she was only eight feet down at the bow.†
Chpt 17.
- The forward ballast tanks were permanently vented to the sea, but the submarine was so big and her ballast tanks so subdivided that she was only eight feet down at the bow.†
Chpt 17.
- She was still down by the bow, which was partially compensated for when the intact ballast tanks were blown dry.†
Chpt 18.
Definitions:
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(1)
(ballast) something that helps to stabilize -- especially heavy material in the bottom of an empty ship
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less common senses of ballast include: coarse gravel laid to form a bed for streets and railroads
or:
a resistor inserted into a circuit to compensate for changes (such as is used to start and regulate fluorescent bulbs)