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"dinghy" Definitions
  1. a small open boat that you sail or row
  2. a small open boat made of plastic or rubber that is filled with air

431 Sentences With "dinghy"

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RS X MEN Windsurfer RS X WOMEN Windsurfer 49er MEN Two-person dinghy, 2 sails + spinnaker 49erFX WOMEN Two-person dinghy, 2 sails + spinnaker Laser MEN Two-person dinghy, 1 sail Laser Radial WOMEN Two-person dinghy, 123 sail Finn MEN Two-person dinghy (heavy) 1 sail 470 MEN Two-person dinghy, 2 sails + spinnaker 470 WOMEN Two-person dinghy, 2 sails + spinnaker NACRA 17 MIXED Two-person catamaran, 2 sails + spinnaker Each class will compete in 10 or 12 races plus a medal race.
Other races taking place include: Men's Windsurfing, Women's Mixed Multihull, Men's One person Dinghy Heavyweight, Women's Windsurfing, Men's Two Person Dinghy races.
One camera documented the situation on a dinghy, and another one the landing of a dinghy on the shores of a Greek island.
They told rescuers they had scrambled into their tiny dinghy as the ferry disintegrated soon after setting off and that other passengers had made it into another dinghy and a liferaft.
They took a dinghy from the ship to Elephant Island.
You might as well be sailing on a fucking dinghy.
Brussels demands But the dinghy keeps on weaving and evading.
A partly deflated dinghy could be seen on the rocks.
A gunman on one boat shot at least twice into waters by the dinghy, with what appeared to be a rifle, before men from both vessels shoved and struck the dinghy with long black batons.
For 18 hours, the dinghy carrying Ikuenobe flailed in rough waters.
A passage in an overcrowded dinghy costs around $2155,2129 per person.
We turned and saw our dinghy skittering away with the current.
The Frenchman emerged from the mooring field in his own dinghy.
They piled into the dinghy with 26 others and took off.
Rescuing 218 refugees from a leaky dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea.
SKALA SIKAMINEAS, Greece — The first dinghy landed about 5:733 p.m.
Rescuers say a sole survivor was found near a torn rubber dinghy.
Half the Bombers helped unload the boats by surfboard, kayak and dinghy.
When he challenged the group in the dinghy, a gunfight quickly erupted.
She unloads her fast inflatable and the migrant dinghy appears hopelessly trapped.
And then the motor whirs into life and the dinghy takes off.
The other race was in the men's Finn class heavy single-person dinghy.
Brenner's bomber settled into the waves, and the men escaped on a dinghy.
First, the frigate Grecale rescued 120 people from a rubber dinghy; then another frigate, the Margottini, saved 450 people from four other dinghies; and lastly the patrol vessel Borsini rescued 400 people from a boat and around 120 from a dinghy.
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A different rescue boat picked up eight people from a dinghy found further east.
The Libyan Coast Guard reportedly complicated Friday's rescue efforts by attacking a migrant dinghy.
The operating theory: She fell into the water while trying to secure the dinghy.
Tuesday also has a medal race scheduled in the Finn heavy one-man dinghy.
He secured a line, towed the dinghy to our buoy and latched it there.
The footage shows the Coast Guard vessel and an unmarked speedboat circling the dinghy.
Vescovo grinned as he climbed out of the hatch and into the waiting dinghy.
More recently, a dinghy carrying 143 people capsized after rival smugglers stole the engine.
Davos will then leave a dinghy on the shore and head into battle with Jon.
Earlier that day, the ship had picked up another 117 migrants from an overcrowded dinghy.
The Men's Laser one-man dinghy and women's Laser Radial classes have two races planned.
There was a man beside the dinghy with his swimming trunks down to his knees.
Officials said Tuesday that search teams overnight spotted an inflated dinghy and white emergency flares.
A handmade outrigger served as a dinghy, ferrying five people at a time to shore.
Sunset had long been something of a dinghy attached to the back of Time Inc.
A huge wake wave, three feet of white water, pounding the dinghy again and again.
They looked petrified as they were lifted out of the dinghy, Reuters video footage showed.
Additionally, Bennett did not search for Ms. Hellman with either the catamaran or the attached dinghy.
Carina believes that with Davern away, Wagner may have used this time to release the dinghy.
Sailing was also canceled on Monday in the men's and women's 470 two-person dinghy classes.
"The Light Between Oceans" begins to lose its majesty when a dinghy appears on the shore.
The boat's captain and four crew members escaped the wreckage by jumping on to a dinghy.
"Staying on a dinghy helps," he said, referring to his luxury yacht which is anchored nearby.
The two then tried to make it to a small, inflatable dinghy and escape the island.
On their second, the engine died after about 20 minutes, and the dinghy took on water.
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He and a few other survivors floated in a dinghy for days and were washed ashore.
Five crew members sleeping on the top deck jumped off and took a dinghy to safety.
We anchored a little way from the shore, before reaching the island on a rubber dinghy.
Hey, if ya gotta talk shop ... might as well do it aboard a $600 million dinghy.
Set against such mighty waves, it is questionable whether the patches on Mr Juncker's dinghy will hold.
Meanwhile, an Olympic sailing hopeful on the waters in Rio crashed his dinghy into a submerged sofa.
The crew, they told the LA Times, had paddled to their nearby boat on a rescue dinghy.
By the time they stagger wearily to the boat's rear, a dinghy is spotted in the distance.
Early the next morning, he reached the Greek side in a rubber dinghy packed with other migrants.
The Mare Jonio picked up around 100 migrants adrift off Libya in a rubber dinghy last Wednesday.
The footage shows dozens of people clinging to a rubber dinghy as they struggle to stay afloat.
You're more the captain of a complex, hierarchical aircraft carrier than the solo skipper of a dinghy.
Armed smugglers crammed them into a dinghy, prayed in the sand, and sent them out to sea.
On Friday night, a rubber dinghy sank after several hours at sea, with 132 people on board.
Incredibly, in deep and treacherous waters, she guns it, flat-out and broadside, feet from the dinghy.
She had been forced to escape to the water with her two children in a tiny dinghy.
One member then took the dinghy boat back to the Conception to try and rescue any survivors.
More than 100 people are on board the rubber dinghy, with one child, a young boy called Muhammad.
Their theory at the time was that she fell into the water while trying to secure the dinghy.
Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean.
They marched him toward what looks like a black inflatable dinghy on small wheels, crossed with a fly.
On Tuesday along, at least 1,800 people made the dangerous crossing by rubber dinghy from Turkey to Lesbos.
Another two women said they had survived the sinking of a second dinghy at about the same time.
Istanbul GREECE Aegean Sea TURKEY Athens The Greek Coast Guard violently pushed back migrants on a dinghy here.
The men in the dinghy were armed with AK-47s — not the standard weapons used by Pakistani marines.
Dozens of Moroccan migrants were rescued after their inflatable dinghy caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday.
In one dinghy, carrying a hundred and fifty people, a Nigerian teen-ager named Blessing started to cry.
Elvstrom's final three gold medals were won in the Finn, involving a single-handed dinghy with no crew.
They passed like ships in the night — if one was an ocean liner and the other a dinghy.
Details: Most of the asylum seekers had been rescued from a faulty rubber dinghy off Libya on Dec.
Its boat has rescued a dinghy with 100 people on board—potentially the one Dignity 1 was moving towards.
In London, her neighbors from Hermitage Docks will sail a dinghy full of flowers and tributes up the Thames.
"I was paddling back in a dinghy and saw a large thing over there in the muck," he said.
The migrants drowned after their dinghy collided with a freighter off the Greek island of Lesbos in September 2015.
However, 103 migrants were found dead at the bottom of the first dinghy, lying in a pool of fuel.
An AFM spokesman said a patrol boat had been deployed to a sinking dinghy south of Malta on Friday.
Eighty-six people were plucked from the stricken rubber dinghy on Saturday and eight bodies - all women - were recovered.
Others have been seen boarding a rubber dinghy to arrive in Greece through the island of Lesbos, Reuters reported.
On the Aegean coast, Turkish broadcasters showed two dozen people, including women and children, aboard a rubber dinghy boat.
Her feet were pruning; they had been soaking for hours in a puddle at the bottom of the dinghy.
Scott was heir to Ainslie in the Finn dinghy, emerging from his shadow to win Olympic gold in Rio.
For water below that level, the men leap out of the dinghy, grab ropes and start pulling it along.
The woman was found drifting on a deflated dinghy next to the bodies of a boy and another woman.
"The dinghy was put to sea despite very bad weather at the time," said a coastguard spokesman in Italy.
In the middle of the Aegean Sea, the dinghy onto which she and 19 other refugees were cramped broke down.
He tells the story of a Syrian family he helped off a dinghy and onto the shore in Lesbos, Greece.
You paddle your small dinghy towards the singular light source in the distance, the falling rain creating a pensive atmosphere.
He is down to 80 kg, from 95 kg when he won gold in the Finn dinghy at London 2012.
Or the bottom of a dinghy would simply tear away and all the passengers would be cast into the water.
At the scene, we helped the rescuers of another NGO ship, the Sea-Eye, take bodies off a flooded dinghy.
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Migration: A child drowned on Monday when a dinghy carrying 48 migrants from Turkey to Greece collapsed, Greek officials said.
At the end of the first act, Candide undertakes his journey to Paraguay in a rubber dinghy on choppy seas.
Blessing and Cynthia had met on the dinghy, several hours earlier, and were now sitting with some other Nigerian girls.
Growing up along the Oresund, he was given a small dinghy as a schoolboy and quickly became consumed by sailing.
The final two weeks they spent in the twelve-foot-long dinghy, towing Northanger and depth-sounding as they went.
Later, Wagner, unable to find his wife, searched the boat along with the captain and noticed the dinghy was missing.
The dinghy was found about a mile from the yacht and a mile from where Wood's drowned body was found.
The 73 migrants were picked up from a packed rubber dinghy drifting about 50 miles off Libya on Wednesday night.
"We took a 5 mile dinghy ride out to Dog island 2 days after hurricane Michael," one person wrote on Facebook.
Two men use a dinghy as they leave a houseboat on the flooded banks of the Seine in Paris on Thursday.
Later, he was unable to find his wife, searched the boat along with the captain and noticed the dinghy was missing.
Okoro arrived in Italy last June after paying smugglers 1,500 Libyan dinars ($1,073) for the risky passage in a rubber dinghy.
Eight people rescued from an drifting dinghy on the weekend said the ferry broke up soon after setting out on Jan.
The second dinghy had broken up and likely sunk, Craven said, with the search was now focusing on finding the liferaft.
Then they take the dinghy back to the sailboat that's cruising nearby to eat, plan for the next day, and sleep.
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The five crew members were able to paddle in a dinghy to a nearby boat, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Separately, at least 64 people, including at least five children, drowned after their overcrowded rubber dinghy sank off the Libyan coast.
The dinghy that drew angry jeers on Sunday was eventually allowed by authorities to dock and its passengers came on shore.
The rescue vessel eased alongside the dinghy, and we shuttled migrants back to the Dignity I in groups of around fifteen.
I spent my summers racing a plywood dinghy on Belfast Lough, the smelly estuary where the city still dumped its effluent.
Some 29 people were rescued when their rubber dinghy started to take in water 25 miles (40 km) north of Libya.
Young would-be haraga, migrants considering an illegal dinghy-ride across the Mediterranean, say terrorism in London and Paris is a deterrent.
They tow the second boat, an inflatable dinghy with flimsy plywood baseboards that's crammed from pontoon to pontoon with extremely cold people.
From SHARK DRUNK: THE ART OF CATCHING A LARGE SHARK FROM A TINY RUBBER DINGHY IN A BIG OCEAN by Morten Strøksnes.
I had a little kid's rubber dinghy that I put my camera and clothes in that and then just swam behind it.
I was in a rubber dinghy radioing for help and I was told that the QE 2 was coming to my rescue.
Hysaj's father, Gezem, traveled by rubber dinghy across the Adriatic Sea to Italy when his son was just a few months old.
The boat's captain and four crew members escaped the wreckage by jumping on to a dinghy and paddling to a nearby boat.
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Once a dinghy enters Greek territorial waters, the coast guard is obliged to rescue it and transport its passengers to the port.
Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: Libby and I were on a sloop, towing a dinghy back to a mooring in the Hudson River.
Those five crew members managed to seek refuge on a nearby boat called the Grape Escape, which they traveled to via dinghy.
"If you let an unseaworthy dinghy with 150 people sail, that could never handle all of these people," Mr. Di Giacomo said.
The passengers rescued from the dinghy said others had escaped the sinking in a life raft after the ferry split in two.
The cove was shallow, so we paddled ashore in a rubber dinghy, pushing ice chunks out of the way with the oars.
The team carries six people in need of medical help down a flight of stairs and gently place them in the dinghy.
Refugees and migrants from Eritrea, Mali, and Bangladesh wait on a dinghy to be rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, near Sabratha, Libya.
There are only two possibilities: either she was trying to get away from the argument, or she was trying to tie the dinghy.
Cover image: Refugees from Libya are desperate to reach the Italian coast on a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea, 27 January 2018.
BEFORE dawn the Dignity 1 has completed her first rescue, scooping 114 migrants without lifejackets from a rubber dinghy adrift in the Mediterranean.
"Staying on a dinghy helps," he said, referring to his luxury yacht, Privacy, which is anchored nearby in the town of Sag Harbor.
Hours before Francis arrived, the European border patrol agency Frontex intercepted a dinghy carrying 41 Syrians and Iraqis off the coast of Lesbos.
Six bodies were fished out of the water on Wednesday and 97 others who were on the dinghy are missing and feared dead.
Some 117 migrants who left Libya in a rubber dinghy in January went missing and most remain unaccounted for, according to the IOM.
Wamba traveled to Turkey, where he spent months scrabbling together the money to pay a smuggler for the treacherous dinghy journey to Greece.
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The missing appeared to have all been in the same dinghy, whose remnants were found near the city of Khoms, the navy said.
On Sunday, 270 other migrants were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard, probably from more than one dinghy, according to Mr. Di Giacomo.
It has also stepped up naval patrols in the Aegean to deter migrants trying to reach Greek islands such as Lesbos by dinghy.
Seven passengers were rescued on January 28 after being spotted in a drifting dinghy by a New Zealand Air Force Orion patrol plane.
In a separate incident,Sea Watch said that it had rescued another 47 people on a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean on Saturday.
New Zealand's military joined the search the next day, and rescued seven people, including a 14-year-old girl, on the small dinghy.
Wagner has repeatedly maintained he doesn't know what happened to Natalie and thinks she fell off the boat while trying to board a dinghy.
A few minutes previously Mr Papachrysostomou had been woken to be told that a flimsy rubber dinghy is nearby with 114 migrants on board.
As the migrants come on board, many of them are keening in distress, with clothes covered in petrol that started leaking in their dinghy.
After picking up the migrants, it was diverted to a second dinghy while on its way to Malta, picking up those migrants as well.
In one climactic scene, gravely dehydrated men are dragged from their vessel by rescuers, and flop into a dinghy like a haul of fish.
Dr Matthew Malek, of the University of Sheffield, and two others were doing maintenance from a dinghy back when he was a PhD student.
The coast guard also rescued yet another group of desperate people — 116 migrants on a rubber dinghy — in roughly the same area on Thursday.
Getting to White Island by boat involves a 90-minute trip, followed by a dinghy transfer to the island for a three-hour visit.
The Conception's captain and four crew members who were sleeping on the top deck jumped to safety on a dinghy, the Associated Press reported.
For anyone out on the water in an overloaded dinghy with an unreliable motor, a small change in conditions can quickly lead to tragedy.
He had joined an oyster sloop with evil intent — killed the crew in New York's lower bay, dumped the bodies, escaped in a dinghy.
It began on June 30, when Proactiva Open Arms, a search-and-rescue nongovernmental organization in Spain, spotted the dinghy in waters near Libya.
The drowning, after a dinghy capsized, was the first since the Turkish government said it would no longer stop migrants from crossing into Europe.
The Mare Jonio, operated by Italian charity Mediterranea Saving Humans, picked up around 100 migrants adrift off Libya in a rubber dinghy on Wednesday.
When authorities attempted to apprehend Scott for failing to appear in court, they found his abandoned dinghy off the coast of Orange Beach, Alabama.
The women and children hidden in the centre of the dinghy behind the ringing wall of male bodies sitting life vest to life vest.
A man helps a young boy to walk after a dinghy with 54 Afghan refugees landed ashore the Greek island of Lesbos, Feb. 28.
The speck became a dot, the dot became a dash, and the dash, unmistakably, a boat: silhouetted human forms crowded on a rubber dinghy.
Even housed in Broadway's smallest theater, this miniature musical, with a cast you could fit in a dinghy, seems just a little, well, at sea.
Wood was also reportedly terrified of the water; it seems unlikely that she decided to go out onto the water at night aboard the dinghy.
He paid $173,217 to secure passage to Europe on another smuggler boat—a wooden dinghy, crammed with refugees, filled with screams and vomit and seawater.
The doctor, John Hadock, was about to go for a swim when he was summoned to jump into a dinghy and rush to Barwick's aid.
One evening, the pair boarded a dinghy on the Turkish coast along with 20 others - three times more people than it was designed to carry.
The court sentenced the main suspect to four years in prison and the man who piloted the dinghy two and a half years in prison.
"They (the search crew) will be feeling mixed emotions now that they've discovered a dinghy with some survivors but not everyone on board," Webb said.
This is no toy dinghy either -- the 160 pound mahogany ride has an electric motor, full nautical lighting and one of those awesome yacht horns.
Survivors from the Santa Cruz boat fire on Monday paddled a dinghy to a nearby yacht and hammered its hull until the owners woke up.
Those five crew members managed to jump ship and seek refuge on a nearby boat called the Grape Escape, which they traveled to via dinghy.
The Hansens were aboard their own boat, the Grape Escape, when the five men escaped the Conception and made their way over on a dinghy.
The group in the dinghy, which migration officials said was aided by smugglers and bound for Italy, became the latest casualties in a continuing crisis.
And Greek officials reported that a boy aged about 6 drowned when a dinghy carrying 48 migrants capsized en route to the island of Lesvos.
Whether you're partying on a dinghy or a yacht, the US Coast Guard requires boat owners to provide enough life jackets for everyone on board.
A backup crew of special operations forces, wearing the same protective gear as the team on the ground, was in a rubber dinghy on standby.
Earlier, the German rescue charity Sea Watch said that at least 25 migrants were feared dead when the rubber dinghy went down in the Mediterranean.
The Ibrahim and Ali families, who arrived on a dinghy last summer, invited me and some of their friends for barbecue chicken and roasted vegetables.
Dozens of migrants were rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard on Thursday after their rubber dinghy snagged on a rocky outcropping off Turkey's Aegean coast.
One evening they boarded a dinghy on the Turkish coast along with 20 others - around three times as many people as it was designed to carry.
At the start of his treacherous journey across the Aegean Sea in a rubber dinghy with 62 other refugees, Hassan called a friend in New York.
The group tweeted on Sunday that 40 of the people on the Aquarius were crossing the sea in a dinghy that collapsed before they were rescued.
Over two days, the family walked from their home across the border into Turkey, then crossed into Greece on a rubber dinghy with dozens of others.
The camp is set up right next to the shoreline and every now and then, an overcrowded dinghy will land on the beach only metres away.
Mary told MSF she had been held in prison in Libya - immigrants are often arrested there - for two months before finding a place on the dinghy.
Two summers ago, Hashem al-Souki, his wife, and their three sons were ready to board a smuggler's dinghy at Egypt's northern coast, bound for Europe.
A New Zealand aircraft spotted a dinghy on Sunday with eight people, including a 14-year-old girl, who had been adrift for days without water.
A spokesman for the Libyan naval forces in Tripoli said on Saturday its crew boarded the rubber dinghy but denied that the migrant boat was attacked.
A spokesman for the Libyan naval forces in Tripoli denied on Saturday that it had attacked the migrant boat but admitted it boarded the rubber dinghy.
"The five guys are there in their dinghy, they're asking me to help them, and their boat is just 400 yards away, fully engulfed," said Hansen.
According to survivor accounts collected by the United Nations agency, smugglers had packed more than 150 people onto a flimsy rubber dinghy on the Libyan coast.
As night fell, their overloaded dinghy began filling with water and its motor failed; most of the 20 people aboard did not know how to swim.
"It's been nice to kind of get away from the tournament scene and go to my dinghy there and enjoy it," Woods said before the tournament.
My mother, riding in a dinghy across an expanse of glittering lake, felt grateful to be so far from the world's calamities, she recently told me.
He has fallen into quicksand; tumbled from peaks; sailed into a cyclone; been shot at, searched, and detained; had his dinghy swamped among hunting leopard seals.
Rescue workers described the area where the dinghy was found as "quite remote," and said other ships would take at least 24 hours to get there.
His team draws on years of training as they navigate the dinghy through narrow streets that are filled with up to six feet of filthy water.
The migrants, mostly from Central and Western Africa, were found crammed in a dinghy whose engine had broken down, according to Open Arms spokeswoman Laura Lanuza.
Then he lost a presidential bid in 2003, withdrawing to a remote village and passing summer days floating in a rubber dinghy on a local lake.
Like the expectant couple, they arrived by rubber dinghy from Turkey only to find the island's migrant camp in a disused military base was severely overcrowded.
Police originally deemed her death an accident, after Wagner told authorities he believed his spouse slipped while trying to board a dinghy, hit her head and drowned.
Police said that after Cullen allegedly drowned his mom, he pulled her body from the pool and tried to hide it in the yard under a dinghy.
On a desert-cold, moonlit night just over two years ago, Amir Taaki stepped off the Iraqi sand into a rubber dinghy floating in the Tigris River.
LONDON — Two Iranian men were rescued by lifeboat volunteers off the Kent coast on Thursday after they attempted to cross the English Channel in a small dinghy.
There was no immediate confirmation of the deceased's nationalities, but Turkey's Anadolu news agency reported that those on board the dinghy were from Iraq, Syria and Algeria.
Libya's coast guard disputed the account on Tuesday but offered no explanation for how the three migrants came to be stranded on the remains of the dinghy.
Golden State applied pressure, pushed the ball, spun it round and round the perimeter, and watched Klay Thompson hit shots from a dinghy in San Leandro Bay.
Police originally deemed Wood's death an accident, after Wagner told authorities he believed his spouse slipped while trying to board a dinghy, hit her head and drowned.
The largest incident, which involved a dinghy carrying 133 people - all of which except 4 lost their lives - from Libya towards Italy, was only 2 months ago.
Five of the crew members have been found alive after they were able to paddle in a dinghy to a nearby boat, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The Mare Jonio, operated by Italian charity Mediterranea Saving Humans, picked up the migrants in a rubber dinghy which was drifting and was already beginning to deflate.
Remote island Ford described the area where the dinghy was found as "quite remote," and said other ships would take at least 24 hours to get there.
This gives them a few minutes of respite before the dinghy scrapes against a speed bump or the road and the laborious process begins all over again.
He volunteered that while Marco Rubio, one of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, was a dreamboat to some, he'd be a leaky dinghy to Putin.
On Friday night, the Italian Navy said the rescue operations, coordinated by the Libyan Rescue Coordination Center, had concluded after the search for the dinghy proved fruitless.
The America's Cup defender has three athletes who have competed in the Olympics, including tactician Tom Slingsby who won gold for Australia in the Laser dinghy in 2012.
So when Ikuenobe and roughly two dozen others boarded a rubber dinghy, they had no way of knowing they were sailing straight into Europe's "stop the boats" policy.
In 2014, the 27-year-old athlete, who fled Syria for Turkey, arrived in the Greek island of Samos after crossing the Aegean Sea in a rubber dinghy.
When Lecomte starts swimming each day, a support dinghy follows him, making sure he doesn't get lost and feeding him soup and bread every two or three hours.
When their crammed dinghy broke down between Turkey and Greece, she and her sister, also a swimmer, jumped into the water and helped guide the boat to safety.
When they splashed out of an inflatable dinghy to examine Coral Castles closely, they were greeted with a vista of bright greens and purples — unmistakable signs of life.
The surviving group, which included the vessel's captain, managed to escape by taking refuge in a nearby boat called the Grape Escape, which they reached on a dinghy.
Once on board, their plan was to join up with another group of six militants disguised in marine uniforms who were approaching the Zulfiqar in an inflatable dinghy.
Footage recorded by sunbathers on Wednesday shows a black dinghy carrying 20 to 30 people land on Playa de los Alemanes, a beach near the Strait of Gibraltar.
I have very vague memories, now and again, of floating among the wood and debris, being pulled into a small rubber dinghy before totally losing consciousness for days.
His father, Carlton Peterson, an aerospace engineer, bought an 11-foot Sabot single-sailed dinghy with the hope that sailing would reduce the stress of his work life.
The announcement brought to an end a 19-day wait for 32 of the stranded migrants, who were rescued from a faulty rubber dinghy off Libya on Dec.
A spokesman for the operation said the group had survived "in the baking sun" for more than a week without supplies, shade or a motor for the dinghy.
Since August, Sarah Mardini — a humanitarian aid worker who saved refugees bound for Greece by pulling their sinking dinghy ashore — has indefinitely languished in a prison outside Athens.
The Suns now live in tents of tarpaulin and plastic sheets by a floating bridge on the banks of the Yellow River, reduced to fishing from a small dinghy.
Every morning, the entire boat turned into one big orgy that lasted till late at night, when the girls were sent back to their yacht in an inflatable dinghy.
Seven months ago, 17-year-old Yusra Mardini crammed on a flimsy rubber dinghy with two dozen other Syrian refugees to make the perilous journey from Turkey to Greece.
Footage from ABS-CBN news showed a handful of black-clad Chinese coastguard on a dinghy approaching the Filipino boat and using a megaphone to tell them to leave.
A bright blue wooden dinghy, 15 or 16 feet long, with a plank seat at the oarlocks and a high-backed bench in the rear, shaded by a canopy.
Indeed, Mr Ashley hinted as much, admitting he may have struggled to keep on top of things as his firm grew from "an inflatable [dinghy]" to "an oil tanker".
There was a boat anchored not far out, and a rubber dinghy pulled up on the wet part of the sand and a fishing pole buried next to it.
Wednesday also showcased the first day of racing in the 470 two-person dinghy and Nacra 17 mixed-sex catamaran, both classes contending with light winds on Guanabara Bay.
On Wednesday, the bodies of four migrants, including two children, were pulled from the Aegean Sea after a dinghy capsized off the coast of the Greek island of Lesbos.
In addition, this week two men were arrested for crossing the Øresund strait with a rubber dinghy which Swedish police suspect was stolen in the Danish city of Helsingør.
And when I was speeding through the Torres Strait on a dinghy with a young boy who was able to point out oyster shells amid vast underwater coral reefs.
As the show begins, the audience sits in a circle of chairs around an empty space that will eventually house a dinghy and a canopy of plastic water bottles.
The rescue team's going in as the Turkish coastguard, accepting defeat at the hands of the dinghy driver who will not give up, fades back east to the shore.
Further south, on Turkey's Aegean coast, Turkish broadcasters showed two dozen people, including women and children, aboard a rubber dinghy boat, reportedly bound for the Greek island of Lesbos.
It was fleeting but electric, and Trump cut me a break, letting me escape media notice by transporting me to Mar-a-Lago in a leaky dinghy at midnight.
After his ransom was paid, he says he was pushed at gunpoint onto a dinghy carrying 113 more migrants, from which he was rescued by Proactiva on December 15.
Smugglers put him in a dinghy along with other migrants bound for Italy, but then left it stranded off the coast of Libya with no engine and no paddle.
"She needed a dinghy and she deployed the Titanic," one diplomat who met Lam this month told Reuters, declining to be identified due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Jaime is meant to ring the bells of surrender, convince Cersei to flee the capital with him, and use Davos' dinghy to go anywhere but King's Landing (Tyrion suggests Pentos).
ROME (Reuters) - Six bodies were recovered and 108 migrants were rescued from a semi-submerged rubber dinghy, Italy's coast guard said on Monday, as boat arrivals accelerate amid calm seas.
But for two men, Mohammed Saeed and Moustafa Taous, it was already too late; their lifeless bodies were pulled from the dinghy, crushed under the weight of the other passengers.
On Tuesday, officials said 21 migrants were missing and feared drowned when a rubber dinghy and a wooden boat had to be rescued after setting off from Libya for Italy.
Survivors from one dinghy, whose passengers included about 20 women and six children, all believed to be from West Africa, said they set off from Libya at about 3 a.m.
If you were out there in a dinghy, God help you, it would stick out like the Queen Mary, but to every one of the standard sensors it's perfectly invisible.
In one episode, on Good Friday, a group of migrants were issued with life jackets and lined up on the edge of their dinghy, ready to transfer to an RHIB.
At least 35 other people are believed to have died in another episode on Sunday, when a dinghy crowded with more than 130 migrants sank within hours of leaving Zuwarah.
Sailing for the first time in the Firefly class, involving a dinghy with two sails, he emerged the surprise victor of a blustery series off the coast of western England.
Singh holds the rope of an inflatable orange dinghy as the team makes its way through a stew of river water and sewage that's now become a cesspool of infection.
Image: 20th Century FoxJumping Jack Flash GordonThe movie: After Roy reaches Neptune, he's in the wrong orbit, and he takes the spaceship equivalent of a dinghy to his dad's ship.
ANKARA (Reuters) - Twelve people were killed on Monday after a dinghy carrying migrants sank off Turkey's western coast, the Turkish coast guard said, adding that 31 others had been rescued.
A search is underway off the coast of Almeria after four sub-Saharan men rescued by helicopter said their dinghy had been carrying a total 47 people when it sank.
LONDON (Reuters) - China's Xu Lijia, who won Olympic gold in 2012, says she will medal again at the Rio Games having made the "sudden" decision to get back into a dinghy.
At the start of the clip, two men, reportedly part of the Turkish Coast Guard, are seen pummeling the small rubber dinghy packed with refugees and migrants with two long oars.
When the motor on a dinghy failed while they were crossing the Mediterranean to Greece, she and her sister got into the water and pushed the overflowing boat to the shore.
Authorities said at the time that her death was an accident: Officials theorized that Wood may have been trying to flee the boat on a dinghy and fallen into the water.
A Syrian refugee holding a baby in a life tube swims toward the shore after their dinghy deflated some 100 meters before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, September 12, 2015.
They boarded an overcrowded dinghy to Greece and, when it began taking on water, jumped into the sea and dragged it for hours to Lesbos, saving the lives of 19 others.
On March 2, a Coast Guard ship violently repelled an inflatable dinghy packed with migrants, in an incident that Turkish officials captured on video, which they then distributed to the press.
Jalou Ayer, 24, a migrant from Conakry, Guinea, said he had tried the fence eight times, until he finally paid a trafficker to take him around it in an inflatable dinghy.
One afternoon, in the last week of our trip, halfway between Glacier Bay and the northern terminus of the Inside Passage, we loaded into the dinghy for a trip to shore.
Like many stories of its kind — migrants fleeing unbearable lives — this one begins at sea, with 60 people jammed like livestock headed to market in a dinghy best suited for six.
Every rubber boat we encountered meant more desperate souls: refugees with open wounds and oozing crimson skin on their feet, burns from the diesel fuel that leaked into the flimsy dinghy.
By age 693, Edward was sailing; when he was 12, his grandfather gave him a 15-foot sailing dinghy, which he plied the length of the tidal Thames two years later.
Screaming in pain, with skin peeling from their faces and limbs scorched by steam and ash, the survivors were transferred from a dinghy bobbing in the water off the small island.
The family left everything behind, and after four days of travel by foot, car and dinghy made it to safety in a refugee camp more than 203,000 miles away in Malawi.
Crewmen from the Irish patrol vessel Emer use a dinghy June 24, 1985, as they search in the area off the Irish coast where an Air India Boeing 747 airliner crashed.
The dinghy set out on Thursday from the coastal town of Garabulli, Libya, west of Tripoli, and in about 10 hours started deflating and taking on water, survivors told humanitarian workers.
He said the survivors had told rescuers that the ferry split in two and sank, and that they were able to use the dinghy because it detached from the larger vessel.
Earlier on Monday, Malta's armed forces rescued 114 migrants from a rubber dinghy taking on water 53 nautical miles (100 km) south of Malta and brought them back to the island.
The bodies of the women — mostly teenagers between ages 14 and 18 — were recovered near a partially deflated rubber dinghy making the treacherous journey from Libya to Europe, according to CNN.
ROME (Reuters) - The bodies of 21 women and one man were brought ashore to Sicily on Friday as fellow migrants described scenes of panic and violence when water poured into their dinghy.
Refugees and migrants are covered with thermal blankets after their arrival on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the Skala Sykaminias village on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Friday, Oct.
An Afghan boy asks for help to climb a rock leading to the main road after arriving on a dinghy from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Chios on Jan.
This trick is best exemplified in a wonderful soundstage sequence depicting the filming of a scene from fictional musical Swingin' Dinghy, starring hunky Burt Gurney (Channing Tatum) as a tap-dancing sailor.
Migrants said that a small group could club together and buy a dinghy and outboard engine for about 5,000 euros ($5,703.00) on websites like Le Bon Coin, a local version of EBay.
She and a friend set off from a campsite by the coast in northeastern Germany one night in 1974, but they ended up sinking their rubber dinghy to avoid detection by searchlights.
Gareth Williams, the owner of the dinghy subterranean venue in Shanghai, said he wasn't able to get the venue's license renewed and that this New Year's Eve bash would be its last.
EVROS, Greece — A child drowned on Monday when a dinghy carrying 48 migrants capsized while trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos from the Turkish coast, the Greek Coast Guard said.
The two women, one of whom is pregnant, told the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR that 20 to 25 people were on board when the dinghy capsized around 1900 GMT on Sunday.
At least 55 people and perhaps as many as 70 are believed to have drowned when a rubber dinghy crammed with 120 to 140 people collapsed, tumbling passengers into the icy water.
A Syrian med student with a blond-flecked beard stands next to a Greek flag in the stern of a crammed, low-riding gray dinghy, holding up a smartphone to film his arrival.
Seven people that were rescued from a drifting dinghy on the weekend said the ferry broke up soon after setting out and that they had seen other passengers scramble aboard a life raft.
Sea missions run by MSF, Spanish aid group Proactiva Open Arms and German organization Sea-Watch went to the aid of four wooden boats and one dinghy in distress, MSF said on Twitter.
The family of swimmer Yusra Mardini escaped from Syria by crossing the Mediterranean; when their dinghy broke down between Turkey and Greece, Mardini and her sister jumped overboard and acted as human rudders.
Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was issued a A$250 ticket (US$193) on Friday for not wearing a lifejacket when he was moving his dinghy near his Sydney home earlier this week.
Among the latest casualties were four migrants said to have drowned after a speedboat identified as belonging to the Libyan Coast Guard attacked a rubber dinghy packed with around 150 people on Friday.
On his last visit to American hardcourts, in March, Novak Djokovic looked like a man in a dinghy without a motor or a sail, losing his opening-round matches in Indian Wells, Calif.
LESBOS/ATHENS (Reuters) - "Go away, go," a smartly dressed Greek woman in sunglasses and a black leather jacket shouted in English at about 40 migrants in a dinghy bobbing near the small harbor.
In an ugly standoff, which continued for about an hour on Sunday, about 20 locals on the Greek island of Lesbos jeered the migrants and kept pushing their dinghy away from the quay.
Hunter, who had come to Siam seeking his fortune, first spotted Chang and Eng as they were climbing into a dinghy, their thin arms wrapped around each other's shoulders, working in graceful unison.
LONDON (Reuters) - A carefree sailor has been rescued from his toy dinghy one mile (1.6km) off the coast of Redcar in north east England after being dragged out to sea by strong currents.
But he was also exceptionally fortunate—the only survivor, by his account, among more than 2100 people who left the Libyan port of Sabratha on a large rubber dinghy on March 260th or 212th.
Migrants, part of a group of people intercepted aboard a dinghy off the coast in the Mediterranean Sea, rest after arriving on a rescue boat at the port of Malaga, Spain, on May 8.
Several years later, on a trip to Isabel's hometown, they meet Hannah (Rachel Weisz), a mournful woman who lost her husband and their baby girl at sea around the time the dinghy washed ashore.
ATHENS — Shortly after landing on the Greek island of Lesbos in a waterlogged dinghy from Turkey, Rahin Salami, an Afghan hoping to reach Germany, boarded a ferry for the port of Piraeus, near Athens.
On that day, one of the roughest rapids, known as Hance, loomed just a few hundred yards downstream, with huge holes and 15-foot waves that could flip our dainty dinghy in a heartbeat.
Which is why some of the world's most powerful activists might not be out riding a dinghy for Greenpeace – but sitting in corporate boardrooms, deciding where to allot the trillions of dollars they manage.
In the men's Finn heavy single-person dinghy, Giles Scott, four-time world champion in the class, guaranteed Britain's second sailing medal of the Games on points after 10 preliminary races, World Sailing said.
Two hundred miles to the south, on the border island of Lesbos, locals angrily blocked a dinghy full of migrants from Turkey, including a pregnant woman and children, from getting off on a pier.
After the fire broke out on Monday, five crew members who were awake managed to jump ship and seek refuge on a nearby boat called the Grape Escape, which they traveled to via dinghy.
The boat left from the Baltra harbor, so it was back on the bus, across on the glorified raft, then into a dinghy, which took me and the group to a perfectly serviceable motorboat.
KASTELLORIZO, Greece — In the narrow Mediterranean strait between the easternmost islands of Greece and the shoreline of western Turkey, Kostas Raftis steered his fishing dinghy along the invisible maritime border dividing the two countries.
New Zealander Robertson helmed China's entry during the first season of SailGP and is 'driving' the Spanish catamaran while Spaniard Jordi Xammar focuses on his 470 dinghy Olympic campaign in Tokyo alongside Nicolas Rodriguez.
Members of the Frontex, European Border Protection Agency, from Portugal rescue 56 people, who were lost in an open sea as they try to approach on a dinghy the Greek island of Lesbos, Tuesday, Dec.
Selection trials for the 470 - a 4.70 meter (15.4 ft) dinghy - will continue and Patience, who won silver in London 2012 with Stuart Bithell, said he aimed to re-qualify with new partner Chris Grube.
Members of the Greek Red Cross cover a girl with a thermal blanket who arrived on a dinghy with other migrants and refugees from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Lesbos on Jan.
For Hannah Mills, 28, and Saskia Clark, 36, who won silver in the 470 dinghy class at London 2012, it is also important not to be distracted by health concerns or the hazards of trash.
Visitors have to clamber over the side of the tour boat into a dinghy and then, once it reaches the island, climb up a set of metal rungs on the side of an old wharf.
After the fire broke out on Monday, the five crew members who were awake managed to jump ship and seek refuge on a nearby boat called the Grape Escape, which they traveled to via dinghy.
VALLETTA (Reuters) - A group of 112 North African migrants was rescued from a sinking dinghy and landed in Malta early on Sunday, supervised by troops in special protective clothing against possible coronavirus infection, authorities said.
VALLETTA (Reuters) - A group of 112 North African migrants was rescued from a sinking dinghy and landed in Malta early on Sunday, supervised by troops in special protective clothing against possible coronavirus infection, authorities said.
More than 100 African migrants, including two toddlers and a pregnant woman, were killed this week after setting off from the coast of Libya "in a rickety, inflatable dinghy" that sank, the New York Times reports.
A Spanish rescue boat has plucked 60 migrants from a patched-up rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya, igniting another political row between Italy and Malta over who should let the aid boat dock.
A Syrian refugee holds onto his children as he struggles to walk off a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Lesbos, September 24, 2015.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Sarah Mardini, one of two Syrian sisters who saved over a dozen refugees in 2015 by pulling their sinking dinghy to Greece, has been arrested for alleged people smuggling, her lawyer said on Friday.
The Norwegian ship Siem Pilot went to the aid of one dinghy that sank in the Sicilian Channel, but many migrants were already in the sea when it arrived, Antonio Panzanaro, an Interforce official, told Reuters.
When their dinghy, which was too packed with people, began to sink en route from Turkey to Greece, she and her sister jumped into the sea to pull the boat to the shore, and to safety.
There was the father, still mourning the loss of his young son, who rowed Baalsrud in a dinghy through rocky waters in the middle of the night, avoiding German sentries, to deposit him on another shore.
The plan was to tie off the sloop, return the dinghy back to the dock, split our tips from a day of charter sailing trips and disappear into the crowds at the 79th Street subway station.
On April 22, 1979, a terror squad from the Palestine Liberation Front, a P.L.O.-affiliated group, landed in a rubber dinghy on the beach at Nahariya, an Israeli city six miles south of the Lebanese border.
Videos shared on social media also appeared to show evidence of dramatic confrontations — such as Greek Coast Guard officials pushing back on a dinghy full of migrants — but it was not possible to verify them independently.
Mathilde Auvillain, a spokeswoman for SOS Mediterranee which co-runs the Aquarius, said they aided a small wooden boat carrying 26 people, mostly Nigerians, on Wednesday, while 123 were taken off a rubber dinghy on Thursday.
More than 62,000 migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian war, arrived in Greece last month by boat and dinghy from Turkey braving winter weather and rough seas, according to the the International Organisation for Migration.
MADRID (Reuters) - The Spanish coast guard rescued three men on Tuesday from a half-sunk dinghy stranded in the Mediterranean, after a two-day search for a boat that had left Morocco with 52 people on board.
Interactive: 'These crossings are nothing but fatal' Elbarghathi said they are uncertain how many migrants were on the vessel but that there could have been around 150 individuals on board, given the type of dinghy recovered nearby.
The next morning, after authorities recovered an inflatable dinghy that previously had been tied to the yacht, Wood's body was found in the water covered only in a burgundy nightgown, blue socks and a red down jacket.
On Wednesday, firefighters from the Tulsa Fire Department came to the aid of a dog who found herself stuck in the middle of a slippery frozen creek, using a rubber dinghy and some 83/10 scooching skills.
"There is a definitely a possibility that the people in the liferaft are alive given that only a short while ago we found people in an open dinghy alive," said New Zealand-based rescue coordinator Paul Craven.
"So lesson learned; I will make sure I always wear a life jacket in my dinghy regardless of how close I am to the shore, just as I always do on my kayak," he wrote on Facebook.
Ackom, now in prison, arrived in Lampedusa on March 5 after a rescue ship collected him and a group of migrants when the rubber dinghy they were traveling in ran into trouble in the Strait of Sicily.
On Friday alone, 21 women and one man were found dead aboard a rubber dinghy floating off the coast of Libya, according to international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (also known as Medecins Sans Frontières or MSF).
On Wednesday, a rubber dinghy believed to be carrying scores of migrants from West Africa collapsed a few hours after it left Libya early in the morning, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration told Reuters.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Bent over a sewing machine, Fariba Amini stitches her latest design using the unlikeliest of fabrics: a sheet from a discarded rubber dinghy, like the one that brought her and thousands more refugees to Greece.
Yusra, who is a member of the first ever Olympic refugee team, told how she and her sister Sara feared they might drown after their overloaded dinghy started taking in water as they crossed the Mediterranean to Greece.
The Sea-Watch group released new photographs of Friday's incident, including one showing a Libyan coast guard vessel pulled up next to the migrant boat and another of a crew member in military uniform aboard the rubber dinghy.
Alan, whose forename appeared in initial reports with its Turkish spelling, Aylan, died with his brother, Galip, 5; their mother, Rihan; and two other refugees when a dinghy carrying 14 migrants toward the Greek island of Kos capsized.
"For women and children in difficulty, the only way to arrive is by plane, not by inflatable dinghy, because the dinghies are operated by criminals who in exchange for trafficking in human beings, buy weapons," Mr. Salvini said.
He wrote that Mr. Walken went to bed and he stayed up for a while, but when he went to bed, he noticed that his wife and a dinghy that had been attached to the yacht were missing.
ROME — More than 100 African migrants who set off in a rickety, inflatable dinghy have died in a wreck off the Libyan coast, humanitarian workers said on Saturday, in what was the deadliest such episode in recent months.
"We don't want to be launching a battleship when a dinghy will do — these will help us look at the right kind of materials" and how best to configure them when designing tools and instruments for space-based use.
ROME (Reuters) - The bodies of 21 women and one man were found on a rubber dinghy adrift near the Libyan coast on Wednesday, just hours after they had set sail for Italy, humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said.
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain (Reuters) - The charity Proactiva Open Arms has filed a complaint, including of involuntary manslaughter, with the Spanish police against a cargo ship for failing to help migrants adrift on a destroyed dinghy in the Mediterranean.
I have a small rented apartment, I have a bike, and while the Google founders have their super yachts, I have an inflatable dinghy that I share with friends and which we take out onto the lakes around Berlin.
"Now they want to throw us back to our country, but not the Syrians," said Shahkar Khan, an Afghan who was detained in the Vial detention camp here when he arrived on a dinghy from Turkey on March 20.
Astronauts then suited up and shipped out on a dinghy to climb into the capsule, where they recreated the emergency egress procedures that they'd actually have to run through should the capsule ever wind up in the Pacific Ocean.
"There is a huge opportunity for a company that offers Professional Indemnity and other policies on a 'pay as you use' model, which the Dinghy founders understand deeply through their unique combination of insurance and freelance experience," he says.
ABOARD THE AGIOS EFSTRATIOS, Aegean Sea (Reuters) - Greek Captain Argyris Frangoulis lifts his binoculars and with eyes fixed on the Aegean Sea horizon, steers his patrol boat out near the Turkish border to a dinghy full of stranded refugees.
Now, we were on the final leg of our longest single swim, a 5K international crossing from a large rock near the Greek island of Meis to the Kas peninsula, our guide Bruce Allender leading the way in a dinghy.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Netherlands' Marit Bouwmeester won sailing gold in the women's Laser Radial single-person dinghy competition on Tuesday after a closely-fought medal race that saw Ireland's Annalise Murphy slip past Denmark's Anne-Marie Rindom to take silver.
Police on the island of Sicily said a group of migrants had been packed on a motorized rubber dinghy and were heading from Libya toward Italy when a group of people smugglers drew alongside and ordered that they remove their hats.
Police said in a statement that the gunman had not been identified, however, they said aerial video showed Libyan suspect Abouzid Nouredine Alhadi had boarded the dinghy from the smugglers' boat and had tried to blend in as another migrant.
Survivors of the dinghy said that a smuggler towed them out to sea for two hours and then at gunpoint forced them to hand over the life jackets they had paid for, plus the dinghy's engine, and left them adrift.
New Zealand has been coordinating the search since Saturday and a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft spotted the dinghy within two hours of reaching the search area on Sunday morning, the NZDF said in a statement.
Lucas has been at or near the top of her sport for much of her life, but she had given up hope of winning Olympic gold after missing out on selection in the 470 dinghy class for Athens in 2004.
The nautical theme is a visual and tangible one too: his posse are called the "Sailing Team", he wears almost exclusively vintage Nautica clothing, and the artwork for Lil Boat features Yachty cast away at sea on a wooden dinghy.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The aerial search for a ferry from Kiribati that sank with 88 people on board, 23 of them schoolchildren, was called off on Friday, almost a week after a group of survivors was found alive in a dinghy.
Italy initially refused entry for the group of 73 African migrants which the Open Arms crew plucked out of a packed rubber dinghy drifting about 50 miles off Libya, suggesting that the vessel should instead put them ashore at Tripoli.
Italy initially refused entry for the group of 73 African migrants which the Open Arms crew plucked out of a packed rubber dinghy drifting about 50 miles off Libya, suggesting that the vessel should instead put them ashore at Tripoli.
The group of migrants — which includes nine women and four minors — were rescued by the Sea-Watch 215, a ship operated by a German humanitarian NGO, from a rubber dinghy in distress about 2448 miles (227 km) off the Libyan coast Wednesday.
The group of migrants — which includes nine women and four minors — were rescued by the Sea-Watch 231, a ship operated by a German humanitarian NGO, from a rubber dinghy in distress about 22019 miles (76 km) off the Libyan coast Wednesday.
In Episode 4, by far the best and most harrowing of the series, Daniel and Victor attempt, like so many refugees before them, to make the treacherous crossing from France back home to England, braving the channel in a dinghy overloaded with people.
WEYMOUTH AND PORTLAND, England, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Winning gold at last month's Rio Olympics was about "righting a wrong" for Hannah Mills after the agony she and Saskia Clark felt when then they landed silver in the 470 dinghy category in 2012.
In his book of the same name Morten Stroksnes, a Norwegian writer, recalls how he and his friend Hugo Aasjord attempted to catch one of these, the largest species of flesh-eating shark, from a small rubber dinghy in the Lofoten archipelago.
People on the rubber dinghy said human traffickers in Libya had pushed too many migrants aboard and the floor had split after the boat put to sea, proving a death trap for young women who had been sitting in the central section.
Grael, who won Brazil's first women's sailing gold medal in Rio in 2016 in the 49erFX dinghy class is now one of the few elite women sailors who have now completed the Southern Ocean leg, which many regard as sailing's ultimate challenge.
Communication signals picked up Saturday and noises detected beneath the water Monday did not originate from the sub, and a dinghy with survival supplies found Tuesday is a different model than the ones with which the San Juan is outfitted, Balbi has said.
Tom and Rita Wilson were doing the dinghy thing Friday off the island of Capri while their pals, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, were not too far maxing and relaxing on the deck of the Rising Sun ... David Geffen's 454-foot luxury yacht.
It set off clashes with Greek police and led to the drowning this month of a child when a dinghy carrying 48 migrants capsized while trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos from the Turkish coast, the Greek Coast Guard said.
Five crew members, the only ones awake at the time, managed to escape the flames and paddle in a dinghy to a nearby boat, where they were rescued by Shirley Hansen and her husband Bob Hansen, according to the Los Angeles Times.
ON BOARD THE OPEN ARMS, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Migrants danced and burst into song as a rescue ship brought them into the Italian port of Taranto at dawn on Tuesday, days after they were found drifting in a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean.
Syrian migrants on a dinghy are rescued by workers with MOAS, Migrant Offshore Aid Station, a Malta-based organization, to board the rescue vessel on the Aegean Sea between the eastern Greek Island of Agathonisi and the Turkish shores, Thursday, March 3, 2016.
German NGO Sea-Eye, which operates the Alan Kurdi, earlier released a video they said showed shots being fired in the air by a man on a boat flying a Libyan flag as they were plucking migrants from a dinghy on Saturday.
ONBOARD OPEN ARMS, off Libya (Reuters) - Some 73 migrants, many suffering from hypothermia and burns, were rescued by a Spanish charity ship late on Wednesday from a packed rubber dinghy that had been drifting off the Libyan coast for nearly 24 hours.
ON BOARD THE OPEN ARMS (Reuters) - An African migrant recently rescued from a crowded dinghy drifting in the Mediterranean said he would have rather died at sea than return to Libya, highlighting the desperation driving the current wave of immigration to Europe.
Ibrahim Assoumanou Abdel Azize, originally from Togo, his Nigerian partner Fethia Owolabi and their five-year old son Ibrahim were among 73 migrants plucked out of a rubber dinghy on Wednesday night by the crew of Spain-based rescue ship, Open Arms.
Europe's tough new stance has turned what should have been a moment of relief — when Sea-Watch 221 rescued Mr. Soumana and 26 other migrants who had launched from a beach in Libya in a flimsy rubber dinghy — into one of renewed trauma.
In the men's Laser one-person dinghy class, Brazil's Robert Scheidt increased his chances of winning a record sixth Olympic sailing medal with fourth- and fifth-place finishes in the roller-coaster waves and light winds of the "Pai" open-ocean course outside Guanabara Bay.
"We need to do this without a permit, but we take the risk because we believe this action will make the companies and the public hear us," Taufik said by mobile phone from a rubber dinghy circling the cargo ship moored near the refinery.
Instead, Rosi follows a 12-year old named Samuele Puccillo as he works on his slingshot aim and grapples with his homework—the quotidian activities of any boy's life—oblivious to the rubber dinghy packed with 250 migrants that has just capsized off the coast.
BERLIN (Reuters) - When Abid Ali risked his life in a rubber dinghy in 2015 as he fled Pakistan for Europe, he didn't think that three years later he would be making bags, backpacks and sneakers out of similar boats in a small workshop in Berlin.
The last boat I sailed in with my family was a pirate ship in an amusement park, not a dinghy full of refugees endangering their lives and those of their families in the hope that their children will one day savor the taste of freedom.
In a dinghy onstage at 3LD Art & Technology Center in Lower Manhattan, they were rehearsing a scene from Sheila Callaghan's immersive new eco-play, "(Not) Water" — guzzling water ever more sloppily from a succession of increasingly large plastic containers, then throwing their empties overboard.
Then, a Libyan Coast Guard vessel appeared and Mr. Isaac, a 32-year-old Nigerian who had sold all of his possessions to make it to Europe, was plucked from his rubber dinghy and taken back to the continent he thought he had escaped.
During the group's fundraising efforts, Defend Europe pledged to "block" the rescue boats – something they attempted during an earlier mission in May, when a group of flag-waving activists in a dinghy tried to harass a much larger rescue boat leaving Catania for Libya.
For $400, a dinghy and danger: A tale of a desperate day at sea There have been so many space blankets that have washed ashore or been left behind near camps that several artists have made photographs, sculptures and even performance installations with the shiny stuff.
GENEVA, April 27 (Reuters) - She escaped the bombs of Syria, and almost drowned when her dinghy capsized off Greece, but Yusra Mardini then competed at the Olympics and has now been appointed a U.N. goodwill ambassador to be a voice for people seeking shelter from war.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Olympic medal races in the men's Laser and women's Laser Radial single-person dinghy classes were canceled on Monday and rescheduled for Tuesday, the men's for too little wind and the women's for too much, World Sailing, the sport's governing body said.
The migrant rescue boat Open Arms docked in Spain on Saturday carrying the bodies of a woman and a four-year-old boy as well as one woman who was found alive floating on the remains of a dinghy off the coast of Libya last week.
On the night, their futuristic sound system blasted out the bass-shaking sounds of Kurupt FM, Sweet Female Attitude and The Prodigy, while the crew thrashed each other at badminton, crowd-surfed in a rubber dinghy and licked off shots from a kids' bow and arrow set.
The most remarkable item on display is the dinghy in which he came to shore at Banna Strand; it looms over the whole exhibition, and imparts an uncanny sense of his presence there: It was the closest I'd yet come to a meeting with his ghost.
Their eventual plan was like a plot from a movie: Latifa disguised her appearance as the pair fled Dubai by car to the coast, took a dinghy and rode jet skis to a waiting boat which was to take the princess and her companion to freedom.
Hussein, in a group of about 100 migrants which arrived in Lesbos four days ago and has been camping on the shore, said he left Afghanistan with his 17-year-old brother a month ago and crossed Iran and Turkey before reaching the island by dinghy.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Searchers examined an expanding zone of the Pacific Ocean around the islands of Kiribati on Monday in hopes of finding more survivors of a ferry sinking after rescuers found seven passengers alive on an aluminum dinghy following more than a week at sea.
A Turkish court has sentenced two men to four years in prison on Friday for human smuggling, following the deaths of Syrian toddler Alan Kurdi, and four other migrants, who drowned last September during a perilous journey by rubber dinghy from Bodrum to the Greek Islands.
Amoun, 70, a blind Palestinian refugee who lived in the town of Aleppo in Syria, rests on a beach moments after arriving along with another 40 on a dinghy in the Greek island of Kos, crossing a part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece, August 12, 2015.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The final medal race in the men's Laser-class single person dinghy was postponed until Tuesday after delays because of a lack of wind left insufficient time before sunset to complete the competition, World Sailing, the sports governing body said on Monday.
It was fiercely windy at Banna Strand, and we climbed up the dunes so Ms. O'Carroll could show me the spot where it is believed the U-boat left Casement and the other men, and the place on the shore where they are likely to have landed the dinghy.
Although their unit is not yet finished, the family has spent a lot of time thinking about how to style their apartment, how to make best use of the light and of the two windows facing the Elbe, where Mr. Kluge hopes to be able to sail a dinghy.
The river surface was thick with craft following us: large passenger boats with bars serving beer and decks crammed with sightseers, a near-naked man sunk so deeply in a tiny rubber dinghy that it crowded into his shoulders as he paddled, grinning, along the middle of the river.
Image 2 of 2 ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA – A Spanish rescue boat plucked 60 migrants from a rubber dinghy in the sea near Libya on Saturday, prompting Italy&aposs hard-line interior minister to immediately announce it won&apost be allowed to dock in any Italian port.
An AP journalist who was aboard a nearby companion vessel when the dinghy was spotted reported that a Libya coast guard vessel was seen approaching the Open Arms, but just as it neared the rescue, it made a U-turn and left, ordering the Open Arms to return to Spain.
In this exclusive excerpt from the book, Strøksnes, a journalist and writer, and his friend Hugo Aasjord, an eccentric artist, have their first tense encounter with the near-mythic creature, whose strength and sheer size threatens to sink not only their salty hopes, but their "tiny rubber dinghy" as well.
The couple had a tradition of sharing a bottle of wine and watching the sunset from scenic places, so Ms. Ilich wasn't surprised when, even after eight hours of sailing, Mr. Reed suggested they dress up, hop in the dinghy and row over for a "date night" on Tahiti Beach.
Small acts of kindness are perceived to add to the continent's pull factor, as if the provision of dry clothes and water is a consideration when deciding whether to place your children in a dangerously overloaded dinghy and cross a rough sea at night to escape a war back home.
On its second day of an aerial search using radar and ocean-current modeling, the New Zealand military found an aluminum dinghy with seven people on board, including a 14-year-old girl, who had survived in the motorless vessel for more than a week with no shade or supplies.
Our dinghy bumped against the dock and we filed off, followed A.K. up this new ghat, where fresh cords of wood awaited us, past a man squatting next to another shaving his whiskers, a cow before a restaurant nosing into the door, narrow streets with private altars of Shiva behind iron gates.
Dan and I took part in the whole centuries-old ritual from start to finish, joining the procession by land and then on a dinghy out to sea, surrounded by some 18,000 people (the island's population is only about 3,000 in the off-season, but on this holy day, it reaches peak tourism).
In the Mediterranean, the most common crossing point for migrants and refugees from war-torn parts of the Middle East and Africa, a toddler became the first reported casualty of 2016, drowning on Saturday off the Greek island of Agathonisi after the dinghy he was traveling in crashed into rocks on the shore.
Morten Strøksnes's Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean is exactly what its gleefully overlong title suggests: a humorously quixotic expedition to hook the astonishing Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate around, measuring up to 21 feet in length and weighing over a ton.
Getting on and off the "wire", the trapeze from which the crew of a 470 must suspend themselves over the water to balance the dinghy, is tough on your knees and back, as is ducking under the boom each time the boat tacks or gybes and even after an hour's sailing in a light breeze you feel the effects.

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