How To Use Life raft In A Sentence
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The life raft was spotted around three miles off the coast, and the five marooned sailors were winched to safety by the Navy aircraft.
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On February 1, 1966 the four-man life raft from the aircraft was found off the coast of North Vietnam approximately 152 miles from the last known position of the aircraft.
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Three Kingfisher pilots searching for ships in distress radioed they had spotted life rafts in the stormy Atlantic.
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However, there was an oil slick, life rings and life rafts visible when coastguards reached the site.
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The life raft has not deployed.
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Find out where the life rafts are on a ship.
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Hopes of finding them alive were dashed on Friday when the capsized vessel was found with its life raft on board.
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He directed them to abandon ship and to board life rafts in the 25-foot seas.
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His body had drifted in a life raft known as a Carley float from November 19, 1941, when the Sydney sank, until the night of February 23-24, 1942, when it washed up on Christmas Island.
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Pilots had begun learning how to parachute with life rafts dangling between their legs.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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The enlarged sponsons provide additional stowage for carrying extra fuel, life rafts, floats or other equipment.
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The old junk sailors even used to roll up a reed sail and use it for a life raft if they were shipwrecked.
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We were the last life raft to get away from the ship.
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Out here, an undone chore is like a slow leak in a life raft - it threatens the stability of everything.
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A 15-man life raft is installed either side in the forward section of each sponson.
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An oil slick surrounds the damaged carrier as an inflatable life raft deploys off her stern.
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He lashed together two life rafts from the wreckage and helped them aboard.
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Anyway, the story here revolves around the deaths of two men, whose bodies are found in a life raft floating off the coast.
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Hopes of finding them alive were dashed on Friday when the capsized vessel was found with its life raft on board.
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Ancient ships carried small boats for the transfer of passengers to the shore but no life rafts or life vests.
Christianity Today
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Police commanders concluded that it must have been swamped by waves and refused to conduct a search further east for signs of the life raft.
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Anyway, the story here revolves around the deaths of two men, whose bodies are found in a life raft floating off the coast.
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In addition to egressing the doomed aircraft and boarding the life rafts, the medical aircrew also had to transport an infant, a small child and an injured adult.
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John Ashton, a former conservator at the Australian War Memorial who studied the life raft, known as a Carley float, said there were 339 holes in the raft's canvas.
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Anyway, the story here revolves around the deaths of two men, whose bodies are found in a life raft floating off the coast.
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Pilots had begun learning how to parachute with life rafts dangling between their legs.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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They were forced to commute from building to building in bright orange inflatable life rafts taken from the airplanes, rowing past floating office equipment and assorted military bric-a-brac.
A Covert Affair
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They were discovered on board by the crew and cast adrift on a life raft.
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Women sailors ranging in age from their 20s to grandmothers brushed up or learned new skills in on-the-water sessions in sail trim, spinnakers, crew-overboard drills and life raft deployment.
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Newcastle's helicopter saw a strobe light and beacon overnight and early Friday morning located the yacht's life raft and crew near Duff Reef off of the Fijian Islands.
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Hopes of finding them alive were dashed on Friday when the capsized vessel was found with its life raft on board.
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Ideally act is get directly into the life raft from the sinking vessel.
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When a storm suddenly rolls in and crashes their boat into a reef, Paul and Barbara man an inflatable life raft and head for the costal town of Imboca for help.
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Pilots had begun learning how to parachute with life rafts dangling between their legs.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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In the inquiry report the Captain was criticised for failing to set up a proper lookout and for failing to deploy his vessel's lifebuoys and life raft.
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Four sailors were winched to safety from their sinking 100,000 boat - after their life rafts were locked up.
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New students can cling to one another like life rafts to begin with and get into muddled relationships.
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At 5: 00 p.m. two life rafts are inflated on the bow, and the aircraft drops a rescue pod.
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A lone survivor was found in a life raft floating aimlessly in the ocean.
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Pilots had begun learning how to parachute with life rafts dangling between their legs.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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We were the last life raft to get away from the ship.
The Sun
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There are other problems with pacing (that whole loony inflatable life raft scene), but "Willie" is the main downer for the whole movie.
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We could distinctly make out the anchor winch, life raft holders and torpedo-loading hatch.
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The things this man had experienced astounded me: he had run in the Olympics and crossed paths with Hitler; lived through ferocious aerial combat and bombardment on the ground; endured a plane crash, forty-seven days on a tiny life raft, shark attacks, a typhoon and a machine gunning from a Japanese bomber; and, after his capture, joined a daring prisoner underground while enslaved in Japanese POW camps.
The New Yorker
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His mariner 's charts, his life jackets, his compass, his flares, his inflatable life raft: all of it went.
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Pilots had begun learning how to parachute with life rafts dangling between their legs.
Spitfire Women of World War II
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He lashed together two life rafts from the wreckage and helped them aboard.
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The Digicel crew were picked up from their life raft by an eastbound container ship called the Hispania Spirit.
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As soon as his life raft boomed into the sea, Delaney pulled the quick release tag and dropped from his harness.
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As we came closer we could make out two men in a life raft with dye marker showing and flailing their arms wildly in the air pleading to be seen.
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Also carried were a small life raft and small tent plus some fishing tackle, and a bottle of chemicals to ward off mosquitoes.
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Unlike his California contemporaries, Snyder primarily used balsa wood removed from scrapped Navy life rafts.
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We were the last life raft to get away from the ship.
The Sun
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The pilots will travel with just a change of clothing, a tent and life raft.
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Sixteen passengers and two crew members escaped the wreck and huddled on two life rafts tied together.
The Sun
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The enlarged sponsons provide additional stowage for carrying extra fuel, life rafts, floats or other equipment.
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We just know that they were going to abandon the life raft and that was it, that was the last we heard.
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Three people were rescued from the stricken yacht's life raft by sailors from HMAS Newcastle.
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He then jumps into his life raft and the only sounds are of the wind and the waves.
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We didn't know it, but the kayaker had abandoned his kayak and boarded the life raft after our aerial delivery.
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He lashed together two life rafts from the wreckage and helped them aboard.
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I made for the life raft and hung on for dear life.
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Sixteen passengers and two crew members escaped the wreck and huddled on two life rafts tied together.
The Sun
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Sometimes, such sentences feel as buoyant as life rafts.
Christianity Today
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In such times, we cling desperately to the life raft of the First Amendment, yet we must also remain aware of its leaks and holes.
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Sixteen passengers and two crew members escaped the wreck and huddled on two life rafts tied together.
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