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Dominican migrant boat overturns; at least 10 dead - TheNewsTribune.com
2 hours 44 min ago
Dominican migrant boat overturns; at least 10 dead
TheNewsTribune.com
Jeffrey Pimentel says the wooden boat was filled with migrants trying to reach Puerto Rico across the Mona Passage. Pimentel says survivors say there were about 60 people on board and many of them are missing. He said 10 bodies had been recovered and ...
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Leap of faith in a land where fear rules - Times of India
3 hours 19 min ago
Leap of faith in a land where fear rules
Times of India
For a heart-stopping second, from the time the feet left 'terror island' till the thankful thud into the wooden boat, the senses were numb, immune to the fears of tiger and crocodile or the elation of making a safe landing. Mondal wrapped his muscular ...
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Survival islands - Times of India
3 hours 21 min ago
Survival islands
Times of India
In one of the numerous narrow creeks in the mangroves, where the river has cut its way through the Royal Bengal Tiger's impregnable fortress, a wooden boat - little more than a fleck in this intimidating vastness - rows nonchalantly upstream, ...
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Indonesia detains 96 boat people bound for Australia - Herald Sun
14 hours 24 min ago
Jakarta Globe
Indonesia detains 96 boat people bound for Australia
Herald Sun
Police chief Irman Sugema said a wooden boat with 47 Afghans and Iranians leaked and capsized in the rough seas of Tasikmalaya in West Java province. ''All of them, 47 migrants and two boat crew, have been rescued alive in the afternoon and they are ...
Indonesian boat rescueSydney Morning Herald
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ARKive.org Website Goal: Protect Threatened Animals - Investor's Business Daily
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 3:48pm
ARKive.org Website Goal: Protect Threatened Animals
Investor's Business Daily
But instead of a giant wooden boat, Arkive relies on the digital equivalent: an ambitious website. An effort to catalog imagery of the world's endangered animal species for the Internet era, Arkive is an educational website. With 650000 unique monthly ...
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Honeywell to avoid boat wrecks on bottom of Onondaga Lake while dredging - Syracuse.com
Fri, 02/03/2012 - 12:13am
Syracuse.com
Honeywell to avoid boat wrecks on bottom of Onondaga Lake while dredging
Syracuse.com
They include a rock scow — a wooden boat that carried crushed stone, sand and other loose materials — just north of Lake View Point, about mid-way up the lake, and two barges off the southern shore of the tiny peninsula. Almost 93 feet long and 33 ...
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Stranded Passengers in Indonesia's Aceh Saved - CRIENGLISH.com
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 9:49pm
Stranded Passengers in Indonesia's Aceh Saved
CRIENGLISH.com
Their boat drifted aimlessly due to rough seas and they finally arrived in Aceh before being recovered by local fishermen. "The wooden boat has leaks but its engine is still functioning," said North Aceh Naval Commander Jamali Abdullah.
Government under pressure as eight more drownThe Daily Telegraph
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All hail the 2012 Moorestown citizen of the year - Moorestown Sun
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 3:13pm
All hail the 2012 Moorestown citizen of the year
Moorestown Sun
As well as his volunteerism with the local organizations, he also helps inner city youths learn the fine art of wooden boat building. Established a few years ago, Sell said several representatives approached him to help start the organization because ...
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Stranded Rohingyas rescued at sea - Mizzima News
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 7:01am
Mizzima News
Stranded Rohingyas rescued at sea
Mizzima News
Hungry and dehydrated, the seafarers were crammed into one wooden boat whose motor broke down. The leader of a fishermen's association in North Aceh's Dewantara subdistrict who was involved in the rescue said the Rohingyas were about 12 miles off the ...
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Bowen restates policy as boat bodies found - Sydney Morning Herald
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 6:14am
Sydney Morning Herald
Bowen restates policy as boat bodies found
Sydney Morning Herald
Meanwhile, another 54 Rohingya asylum seekers from Burma were rescued off the Indonesian coast near Aceh after their wooden boat broke down. More than 150 asylum seekers drowned after a crowded people smuggler's vessel sank off Java in December.
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Wooden Boat Festival of Geelong preview - Sail World
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 3:13am
Sail World
Wooden Boat Festival of Geelong preview
Sail World
The Whyte, Just and Moore Wooden Boat Festival is being held on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th March 2012 when the love of wooden boats throughout the ages will again be on display at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club. An amazing display of well loved and ...
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54 Ethnic Burmese Refugees Rescued Off Aceh's Coast - Jakarta Globe
Thu, 02/02/2012 - 3:03am
Jakarta Globe
54 Ethnic Burmese Refugees Rescued Off Aceh's Coast
Jakarta Globe
“Fishermen from Krueng Geukueh succeeded in evacuating the Rohingya from one wooden boat, which was damaged and its motor dead,” Jamali told journalists. Once safely ashore, the asylum seekers were taken to nearby Blukat Teubai village, where they were ...
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Novice tests the waters . . . - The Daily Post
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 7:27pm
Novice tests the waters . . .
The Daily Post
By Matthew Martin | Thursday, February 2, 2012 15:00 AYE, AYE CAPTAIN: John "Ivan" Dustin and his kauri launch Alberta are taking part in their first Lake Rotoiti Classic and Wooden Boat Parade on Saturday. PHOTO/BEN FRASER Although he's been told it's ...
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Sending a boatload of evil spirits back to hell - New Straits Times
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 5:03pm
New Straits Times
Sending a boatload of evil spirits back to hell
New Straits Times
By KELLY KOH LING MIN A Wangkang organising committee member preparing the wooden boat that will be paraded around the streets of Malacca on Feb 6 to collect evil spirits and negative elements. Pic by Mohd Khairul Helmy IT is not an annual event like ...
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Maritime Museum draws cruise ship tourists - BVI Beacon
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 11:57am
Maritime Museum draws cruise ship tourists
BVI Beacon
“The museum is dedicated to preserving the maritime heritage of the BVI and the knowledge of the traditional wooden boat of the BVI,” Mr. Brooks said. “It really is the essence of things in the BVI.” Cruise ship tourists were first brought to the ...
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Harbor Seal hanging 'Round the Dock - Atlantic Highlands Herald
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 7:24am
Atlantic Highlands Herald
Harbor Seal hanging 'Round the Dock
Atlantic Highlands Herald
I caught the seal lounging out on the far end of a wooden boat dock in the marina. It was hauled out and resting, probably digesting a bellyful of fish. The seal was wisely in a sheltered stretch of the bay, behind a small inlet.
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Maritime Museum presents Lumber Schooners exhibit - Georgetown Times
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 7:22am
Georgetown Times
Maritime Museum presents Lumber Schooners exhibit
Georgetown Times
The South Carolina Maritime Museum has been a 16-year-old vision of the Harbor Historical Association, the sponsoring organization of the Georgetown Wooden Boat Show. “People are all very enthusiastic about us getting the museum underway,” Sanders said ...
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Port of PT approves passenger ferry lease option rather than construction - Port Townsend Leader
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 4:49am
Port of PT approves passenger ferry lease option rather than construction
Port Townsend Leader
“We will talk about bringing it in for Jazz Port Townsend or the Wooden Boat Festival, and how they see this ferry working with their operations,” Pivarnik said. Following stakeholder meetings, the port plans public meetings in May to hear from locals.
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UNHCR report: The deadly Mediterranean - Raxanreeb Online
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 4:13am
UNHCR report: The deadly Mediterranean
Raxanreeb Online
The 50-foot wooden boat, which was carrying immigrants from Chad and Somalia, had stopped without fuel and with a stalled engine. In July, Malta refused entry to a Spanish warship under Nato command from disembarking a total of 111 migrants it had ...
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Estuary Centre will be an economic generator - Canada.com
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 2:54am
Estuary Centre will be an economic generator
Canada.com
Having an attraction like the Nature Centre to go along with the Wooden Boat Society and other bay businesses, will mean that more boaters will stay that extra night and help stimulate our local economy. Thanks for your efforts.
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