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9 Translate the following sentences from English into Ukrainian.
1 Many kinds of rotary drilling rigs are available, particularly
offshore where the marine environment plays animportant role
in rig design.
2 Classified by size, land rigs are light duty, medium duty, heavy
duty, and very heavy duty.
3 On the other hand, a rig cannot drill too much beyond its rated
maximum depth, because it cannot handle the heavier weight
of the drilling equipment required for deeper holes.
4 Floaters include semisubmersibles and drill ships. They are
capable of drilling in waters thousands of feet (metres) deep.
5 Submersibles and jackups contact the seafloor when drilling.
The lower part of a submersible's structure rests on the
seafloor. In the case of jackups, only the legs contact the
seafloor.
6 A bottle-type rig has four tall steel cylinders (bottles) at each
corner of the structure.
7 When the sea is ice-free in the brief arctic summer, boats tow
the submersible to the drilling site.
8 By definition, barges are not self-propelled; they have no built-
in power to move them from one site to another.
9 Most modern jackups have three legs with a triangular-shaped
barge hull; others have four or more legs with rectangular
hulls.
10 Whether it has columnar or open-truss legs, when a jackup's
barge hull is positioned on the drilling site, the crew jacks
down the legs until they contact the seafloor.

10 Translate the following sentences from Ukrainian into English.

1 Ця сила є достатньою для того, щоб пошкодити опори чи
корпус судна або баржі.

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