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...It was the first boat Howson designed specially for his business. It has twin keels — “so we can drive it on to the beach”, says skipper Simon — and a very shallow draft....
...Deep access is the luxury, which is where the shallow-draft Charaidew II comes in....
...village of Durgerdam, which lies about 6km east of Amsterdam’s Centraal Station, looks almost improbably picturesque: a string of 200 or so low, red-roofed, gable-fronted houses stretching 1.5km around a shallow...
...Beside the Sound of Iona it fractures into a series of islets, skerries and passages — only a boat of shallow draft can nose about its narrowest nooks....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 15, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Original Travel has managed to get exclusive access to La Flâneuse du Nil, a faithful replica of the shallow-draft dahabieh boats that date to antiquity....
...Shallow drafts, powerful launch boats and the by-now requisite on-board helicopters mean those who charter the top of the market gain access to the northern hemisphere’s great empties: tundra, mountaintops...
...Weekly Toyo Keizai magazine estimates that Japan Inc will face a shortfall of 3,000 outside directors next year....
...Runner beans come in, fish changes all the time [from boats off the east coast], nature starts hurling birds at us....
...But there are only five medium-size whaling boats operating in all of Japan, along with one large vessel and three catcher boats that accompany it....
...Mr Pakaimas said there were dozens of boats loaded with goods for China docked along the banks of the river between Myanmar and Laos in mid-March that could go no further because of the shallow waters....
...Looking like huge silver shields, permit are caught here using specially adapted shallow-draft boats that are poled silently through the mangrove-wrapped flats of the nearby Port Honduras Marine Reserve....
...People smugglers have taken advantage of the power vacuum to send thousands of illegal migrants to Europe on boats crossing the Mediterranean....
...Reviewing the footage Back on board the dive boat, finding out how well the footage had turned out proved tricky....
...The FAA published draft rules in February permitting small commercial drones to share US air space with other aircraft, but said it would require operators to keep the unmanned aerial vehicles in their line...
...Dive, fish, snorkel — it is the daily mantra on this boat, with its agile 2.4m draft (at one point the captain reverses into a tiny comma of a bay at Misima Island, to sling the bowline from a tree)....
...He faces charges of manslaughter in connection with the deaths of 32 people when the cruise vessel struck a rock and capsized in shallow waters....
...which move down the vast river in huge “tows” of 30 or more lashed barges, have joined with agriculture groups to demand that US President Barack Obama take action to maintain navigation on a crucial, shallow...
...By the 1860s their speed and shallow draft brought them to the attention of the Confederacy in the American civil war, which bought several and converted them to blockade runners that could evade the Union...
...Someone is trying to sabotage the university’s Boat Race squad. Our precocious, garrulous heroine investigates....
...Each lost day costs drillers $25,000 and creates unemployment risk for the 100-member crew and 400 support staff, including everyone from cooks to supply boat drivers....
...“U-boats at dawn!” They are almost right....
...One participant calls the July announcement a “good, tightly drawn package”, while another insists: “People have missed the boat on how fundamental the reforms are.”...
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