Word: boated
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...full fleet of funerary boats, the symbolic transportation to the afterlife, appears in the exhibition. Each small vessel is about two feet long and carries something different: transport boats have portable cabins in which Djehutynakt could sit; on a fowling boat, one slave steers, while another throws out a net to catch marsh birds...
...image of an old wooden junk with orange sails is ubiquitous in Hong Kong lore. It's on matchbooks, advertisements and postcards in this famous port city, but the traditional wind-powered Chinese boat cruising Victoria Harbor is a rare site these days. The reality is a bit less picturesque: the second busiest port in the world is filled with diesel-powered ships, ferries and fishing boats that belch toxins into the infamously polluted Hong Kong skyline...
...When it comes to shipping pollution, the world is all in the same boat - and right now that boat runs on toxic sludge - but with continued innovation and tighter regulations, the planet's blue seas could soon be filled with green ships. Corbett predicts that if the new IMO standards are implemented, then the shipping industry could avoid contributing to more than 40,000 deaths in a single year. It would be a dramatic drop, but the ship engines would still be allowed to emit more sulfur dioxide than trucks and cars in the U.S. Solar Sailor's Dane sees...
...same trio crewed the B-division boat, where sophomore Brendan Kopp handled the skippering duties in a 14th place finish...
Junior Teddy Himler handled the skippering duties in the A-division boat, where he was joined by sophomore crew Annie DeAngelo in a fifth place finish...