(1) Most travel in overcrowded inflatable dinghies that have just one air pocket, making deflation more likely.
(2) The migrants rescued on Tuesday had been aboard five motorised dinghies and two larger vessels.
(3) He writes about a secondary school headmaster, dedicated to young people of all abilities and backgrounds: "Outside in the world the little meritocrats, those natural survivors, were climbing ... into dinghies, leaving the rest to make do with rafts.
(4) 'Libyan coastguard' speedboat attacked migrant dinghy, says NGO Read more The central Mediterranean route has always been a riskier option.
(5) When he was diagnosed as terminally ill two years later, he set up a Facebook page with a bucket list of things he wanted to achieve, including sky-diving, crowd-surfing in a rubber dinghy, and hugging an animal bigger than him (an elephant, it turned out).
(6) Several sailors were rescued from a yacht off the coast of Kent and from a dinghy in Portsmouth harbour.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Two migrants pull an overcrowded dinghy with Syrian and Afghan refugees arriving from the Turkish coasts to the Greek island of Lesbos.
(8) Even as the expulsions were under way, a rubber dinghy with about 40 men, women and children arrived from the shores of Turkey; on the other side of the Aegean, dozens of others were arrested trying to follow in their wake.
(9) Photograph: Eduardo Ruiz Samuel always tells people that his journey to reach Spain by dinghy lasted two years.
(10) A terrorist who comes into Greece via a dinghy from Turkey posing as a refugee couldn’t just pop up in London.
(11) This set includes six mini-figures including the pilot, rescuer, "stricken people", two water cannons, a submarine, dinghy and lighthouse.
(12) A dry-land winter training programme for dinghy-sailors is described.
(13) Their day had begun at the family’s home on a barge on the Thames, where neighbours had carpeted one community dinghy named Yorkshire Rose with 1,000 roses.
(14) Threatened with guns, 40 Syrian men, women and children got onto a small inflatable dinghy and were pushed into the water.
(15) Bharat Tamore, an assistant supervisor at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel, was gazing out to sea when he spotted the dinghy drifting noiselessly towards the beach.
(16) Along the roadside, entrepreneurs sell everything from wellington boots and lifejackets to blocks of foam and inflatable dinghies.
(17) We have been told by the people who have arrived that the traffickers would literally push people to board rubber dinghies with weapons.
(18) Getting there is all a bit Blue Peter: at just gone 9am on a freezing weekday, I bounce over the waves in a motorised dinghy, then clamber up long-eroded steps - clinging nervously to a frayed length of rope - into a huge circular courtyard.
(19) But in a major tragedy last week, more than 300 migrants died in the Mediterranean Sea when their overcrowded rubber dinghies collapsed and sank in stormy weather.
(20) Four rubber dinghies, each carrying up to 100 west African migrants, are believed to have capsized after leaving Libya for Italy several days ago, the UN refugee agency said, based on accounts from survivors.
Lifeboat
Definition:
(n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier today Liz Sandeman, a marine mammal medic who went out in a lifeboat to examine the whale, said: "It looks quite healthy and quite relaxed.
(2) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(3) An uncle of one of the crew members from the El Faro says the ship was equipped with modern lifeboats.
(4) A rope is visible between the two vessels, and an inflatable boat and what appears to be an Australian warship are flanking the lifeboat.
(5) The government is buying 16 large hard-hulled lifeboats, similar to those found on oil tankers and cruise ships, to be used to send asylum seekers back towards Indonesia if their own vessel is unseaworthy, according to Fairfax Media reports published on Wednesday .
(6) Apart from when they were advised of the plan to dump them in orange lifeboats somewhere off the coast of India, they had no idea where they were and no idea where our government was going to send them.
(7) The development appears to be confirmation that Australian border protection authorities have begun using lifeboats to return asylum seekers to Indonesia, after the commander of Operation Sovereign Borders confirmed on Wednesday that a number of such vessels had been acquired.
(8) In the case of Landon Donovan, it was more of a lifeboat.
(9) Among those on board the large, fully encapsulted lifeboat are at least one woman and one child as well as a number of men.
(10) The Indonesian foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, said sending asylum seekers back in lifeboats was the start of a slippery slope.
(11) This is what happened with the first lifeboat used by the Ocean Protector.
(12) If we arrive at the place where we hope to arrive, there will be no requirement for [industry lifeboat] the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) [to step in],” he said.
(13) Last month it was alleged that three asylum seekers died whilst crossing a jungle river following a lifeboat turnback.
(14) Lawyers for the asylum seekers, who were held in windowless rooms for 21 hours a day, say the detained group were instructed on how to use lifeboats to return to India.
(15) It will be a big job, a task summarised by one Scottish blogger, who reckons Fred the Shred should be ranked alongside Bruce Ismay - the managing director of the White Star Line who grabbed a place on one of the Titanic's lifeboats, leaving his staff and customers to drown.
(16) These operations begin with an order from one of the command centres involved in Operation Sovereign Borders to deploy a lifeboat for the return of a group of asylum seekers.
(17) All that is left of the lifeboat station at Hemsby, Norfolk, after the storm.
(18) An announcement could be made as early as next week, but the deal depends on a major restructuring of the British Steel Pension Scheme that has been criticised by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), the government-backed pensions lifeboat.
(19) There are times in life when the sea is more attractive than the lifeboat.
(20) Flood rescue teams from the Royal National Lifeboat Institution and North Wales Fire and Rescue Service are now conducting street by street searches to ensure no one is left behind in the bungalows under water in Rhyl, north Wales.