1.   He points out that rising bubbles often carry currents of water up with them, exerting an upward force on the floating object.

2.   Its mood was melancholy, its skies gray, its buildings grimy and its air foul from the blast furnaces along a stinking river that trafficked in floating objects.

3.   It sounds far-fetched, but lab tests have proved that bubbles can sink floating objects.

4.   Another technique, uses floating objects, such as logs, around which tuna tend to gather.

5.   Workers at the plant began removing jellyfish near the sluice with a device used to collect floating objects, Hitosugi said.

6.   Hideomi Otsubo, chief of the commission, said it was improbable that the ship had hit a floating object -- the Russian explanation for the accident.

7.   At a later stage, Jordan and Israel would demarcate the limits of their territorial waters with floating objects, as agreed in the peace treaty, Shurdum added.

8.   Delage already reported to Seret about several marine phenomena including how fish concentrate under a floating object and seemed to establish a relationship with him.

9.   The two countries are divided on what caused the tanker to sink, and Tokyo rejected earlier Russian findings that it had collided with an unidentified floating object.

10.   Tokyo rejected earlier Russian findings that it collided with an unidentified floating object.