Word: boated
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...Think of your house as a boat," says Richard Trethewey, the mechanical systems expert for PBS' home-improvement series This Old House. "If all the holes in your house that are letting out air were letting water in, it would sink your boat." (Listen to Trethewey talk about how to improve the energy efficiency of your home on this week's Greencast...
...disaster in south Florida is invisible from above water but the damage is horrific. Hundreds of yards of sensitive coral reefs, part of the largest such ecosystem in the United States, have been sliced through by boats in two incidents over the last month. Indeed, because of choppy conditions, the assessment of the damage at one site, a mile offshore from the famed Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, was not possible until this week. It is now believed that a cable line from a tug boat, or possibly lobster traps, cut a swath estimated at about 200 yards long...
Last week, heftier federally regulated fines were enacted for vessels that damage coral reefs. Florida's Department of Environmental Protection is investigating an 80-foot dive boat called the Nekton that ran aground and caused the reef damage in Broward County, sending a crew out on Tuesday for an assessment. "We have a lot of broken corals there that need to be removed," said Chantal Collier, manager of the state's Coral Reef Conservation Program. Meanwhile, the non-profit volunteer group Palm Beach County Reef Rescue on Tuesday announced a $2,500 reward for any information leading to the culprits...
...provoking a chuckle, or a pang of empathy. His anecdotes exude an exotic mystique, generating a certain sense of fantasy. One wonder how can such a people, such a place exist? Take Everett’s story of his brush with a giant anaconda. After he veers his small boat, laden with his family, out of the beast’s path he manages to just catch it with his propeller. “Then a second later the entire snake’s body stood up out of the water, towering above the boat....I looked at the entire...
...Pulling out his 30-day expulsion order, written in Greek, he mulls over his options. He wants to leave Greece for the Netherlands as quickly as possible, but he doesn't know how: plane, train, boat. "I don't know, but it will have to be illegal," he says, his eyes dropping grimly as he folds the order and wedges it back in the front pocket of the bleached gray jeans he has worn all the way from Kandahar...