Rachael Taylor

The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around, but the truth is, if you're out someplace like the ocean on a capsized boat, it doesn't matter if you have academic degrees, or if you're a martial-arts ninja. Nature is a bigger force than you.

Australian Actress

James Wolcott

Being raised Catholic in a pressure-cooker household besieged by alcohol and bill collectors enforced and heightened a sense of sentry duty in me, the oldest of five children and the one most responsible for keeping everything from capsizing. Wild indulgence was for other people, the non-worriers.

American Critic

Nathan Outteridge

Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.

Australian Athlete

Adam Grant

A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

American Author

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

American Businessman

Used specifically for boats and ships, often implying an accident or mishap on water.

Maritime Context

Capsize usually refers to an unexpected or sudden overturning in water.

Unexpected Event

Capsize often implies danger to people on board, leading to potential rescue operations.

Safety Risk

Illustrates that 'capsize' can also apply to non-maritime objects like vehicles.

Beyond Boats

Can be used metaphorically to describe turning over or failure of plans or situations.

Metaphorical Use

The term paints a dramatic, vivid picture, often suggesting chaos or disarray.

Dramatic Imagery

 Let's take a look at the fears that their imaginations were generating as they drifted in the middle of the Pacific. Twenty-four hours had now passed since the capsizing of the ship. The time had come for the men to make a plan, but they had very few options. In his fascinating account of the disaster,

What fear can teach us PIPE...

 we didn't capsize well they didn't put a hole through the hippo oh well through the boat one hippo I've got a very big headache cuz he decided he was very strong and he attacked a stainless steel Braj and cam was sick and best with a headache I'm sure okay well we said yeah and enjoy the view of

Safari Live - Day 65 PIPE...

 Before we discuss all five of these processes, we should define evolution. Evolution is simply change in the gene pool over time. But what is a gene pool? And for that matter, what is a gene? Before spending any more time on genetics, let us begin with a story. Imagine that a boat capsizes,

Five fingers of...

 capsized and the men thrown up into the sea they would have then two or three of these dogs on the mothership that they let go and they'd dive into the sea swim over to where the men were and they would drag them back to the mothership so it's a natural thing within these

Bilbo the Lifeguard Dog...

 and the spray from the breaking crests was blown horizontally like snow in a blizzard. If we didn't sail fast enough, we'd be engulfed by that storm, and either capsized or smashed to pieces. We were quite literally hanging on for our lives and doing so on a knife edge.

The surprising thing I...

 has some of the highest white water in the country. And just to be prepared in case we should capsize, we'd practice having me swim through a smaller rapid. And it's safe to say it wasn't glamorous. I took my breath in the wrong part of the wave, choked on river water

Cara E. Yar Khan: The...

 coming from the leaves elephants they do avoid those kind of trees and apart from that elephant don't like the chillies they don't like the pepper chilies because of what is called a capsize in molecule a molecule which gives a chilli

Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...

 mechanical failure and that the crew was abandoning the vessel into life rafts. It depended what the mechanical failure was. Ships that lose power in heavy seas can capsize as they drift broadside to the current.

A Mysterious Sinking PIPE...

 any sign of danger, every sign of life. Now imagine millions of sweat bees choking the air around you, flesh-eating bacteria, the constant threat of a landmine going off or an unseen hippo capsizing your mokoro.

How we're saving one of...

 just below where she and Bassem were sitting. And she heard how they yelled, "Let the fish eat your flesh!" And they started laughing as the boat capsized and sank.

Capsize

To tilt or turn over a boat or ship.

Often appears as...

In a broader sense, to be overturned; to flip over.

Often appears as...

Maritime Context

Unexpected Event

Safety Risk

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