Life jackets floated singly, and men without life jackets beat against the sides of boats, trying to clamber into them.
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Life jackets not required to be worn None of the Branson victims who died were wearing life jackets when they were found, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
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But he questioned why passengers were not wearing life jackets.
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"They were throwing out life jackets to people," Tia said.
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Both were wearing life jackets when they were last seen.
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They both immediately went underwater and neither were wearing life jackets.
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" "We couldn't swim and only a few people had life jackets.
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Cloth from life jackets worn by refugees as they fled Syria.
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It's not clear if they were life jackets from the factory.
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We couldn't swim and only a few people had life jackets.
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The Italian crew threw life jackets and rings into the churning water.
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People on pleasure boats with life jackets and beer koozies sailed downriver.
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Such incidents occur frequently in India, where few people use life jackets.
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Thomson said 18 of those who died were not wearing life jackets.
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But four chaplains standing on the decks remained calm, distributing life jackets.
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Long-tails growled slowly along, stuffed with tourists in orange life jackets.
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Earlier teams discovered other debris associated with the sailboat, including six life jackets.
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Thousands of life-jackets were scattered on the shore, like neon memento moris.
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As of 2015, more than 450,000 life jackets were abandoned on the beaches.
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Coleman said the captain told passengers that they would not need life jackets.
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The victims, aged 1 to 76, were not wearing life jackets, officials said.
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Safety essentials — such as a swim ladder, anchor, and life jackets — are included.
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Authorities said the death toll might rise as passengers were not wearing life jackets.
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You also shouldn't rely on air-filled or foam toys instead of life jackets.
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Once again, people discard their life-jackets and are asked where they are from.
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In Mr Quilty's new show, one wall is covered in paintings of life-jackets.
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Authorities are releasing few details, including whether the people aboard were wearing life jackets.
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A pile of life jackets discarded by migrants who arrived by boat to Lesbos.
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Coleman said the captain mentioned the life jackets before they went on the lake.
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Survivor Tia Coleman said that the captain told passengers they didn't need life jackets.
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Slowly, some of these kids agreed to put on life jackets and take lessons.
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One day the technique could make for safer ships, or perhaps even life jackets.
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Most of those deaths were people who drowned and were not wearing life jackets.
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Smugglers often cram passengers into unseaworthy vessels—without food, fuel, life jackets, or navigational tools.
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People posted pictures on social media of individuals crowded on decks wearing red life jackets.
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Police seized more than 1,200 life jackets on Wednesday, according to Turkish news outlet Hurriyet.
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Survivors have said the captain mentioned the life jackets but said they wouldn't need them.
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It is designed to take about 60 refugees on board, but carries 600 life jackets.
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None of the migrants were given life jackets, but all the suspected traffickers wore them.
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Bright orange life jackets that are of little use for tactical units that require camouflage.
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They took off their life jackets and followed me back up to the observation deck.
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Life jackets, life buoys, inflatable tower lights, raincoats, gumboots and chain saws have been provided.
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" She says by the time it was clear life jackets were needed, "it was too late.
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One of them says that the captain told passengers not to bother grabbing their life jackets.
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Within five minutes, people were on deck, wearing boots, helmets, and life jackets, ready to help.
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Life jackets are crucial safety tools that we would never dream of hitting the water without.
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The harga has sent the prices of speedboats, boat motors, life jackets and GPS systems skyrocketing.
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Adele's Titanic themed birthday party had them dancing in life jackets… Thousands of people actually died.
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An inflatable boat collapses slowly into the Mediterranean's dark waters, its occupants grasping at life jackets.
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Smaller vessels are often better equipped than larger ones, outfitted with life jackets, food, and water.
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None of the victims were wearing life jackets when they were found, a source told CNN.
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Back in January, Nagler was making mattresses out of the life jackets that were left behind.
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We passed several empty life jackets and one dead migrant floating face down in the water.
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None of the kayakers were wearing life jackets during the incident, according to the Indiana DNR.
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None of the people he or his co-workers pulled into boats were wearing life jackets.
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They had just two boats, there were no safety preparations, no safety guard, no life jackets.
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" She added: "When that boat is found, all those life jackets are going to be in there.
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Early this year, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei covered a Berlin landmark with thousands of refugee life jackets.
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Adele's Titanic themed birthday party had them dancing in life jackets… Thousands of people actually died. pic.twitter.
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Emergency crews used ropes, boats, helicopters, and life jackets to make rescues on Monday, the AP reported.
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The ministry denied a RIA report that some of the dead passengers had been wearing life jackets.
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The boat had a limited number of life-jackets and was overloaded with both passengers and cargo.
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Passengers were thrown into the fast-moving current, and many of those rescued weren't wearing life jackets.
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The sleepy children played with life jackets and showed off how they would swim to the island.
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Indiana Conservation Officers urged boaters to always wear life jackets, regardless of the size of the waterway.
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"As life jackets are coming off, the drowning rates are skyrocketing," in adolescent boys, Ms. Gage said.
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They had no sooner scrambled into life jackets when a five-meter wave bore down on them.
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He wrapped her with the life jackets and cushions that were floating where the boat once was.
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The smugglers Musaab paid to make arrangements for the trip to Europe promised there would be life jackets.
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The law requires enough life jackets for passengers and crew, and jackets that fit all of the children.
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Whether to advise passengers to use life jackets is an "operation decision" made by the captain, Stoermer said.
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Fortunately, the guys were wearing life jackets and kill switches -- which stopped the boat dead in its tracks.
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Further, the NTSB said if those vehicles weren't retrofitted and still had canopies, passengers shouldn't wear life jackets.
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He said there were life jackets aboard the boat, but he doesn't know whether people were wearing them.
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The inspection also accounted for smoke detectors on board, as well as rafts and life jackets for 110.
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Coleman said if she could have reached the life jackets, she believes she could have saved her children.
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Finally, they packed up, bought life jackets - a simple but risky transaction which carries the possibility of arrest.
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Life jackets are tightened, the people are reassured that they are safe and going to a better place.
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And, most importantly, the Titanic ll will have enough life jackets and lifeboats for every person on board.
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By 7am the team are already on the tough rubber rescue boat, which is now filled with life-jackets.
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The artwork was crafted from over 20193,500 life jackets collected from refugees arriving on the Greek Island of Lesbos.
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The life jackets have been slowly piling up in a dump on the island, near the town of Molyvos.
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The vessel contained life jackets, but passengers weren't required to wear them, according to Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader.
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The dinghies are prone to capsizing in rough seas, and the people smugglers do not give out life jackets.
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"Trafficking people became the most popular industry in the region", she added, along with producing life jackets and boats.
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The signs are everywhere: Dozens of footprints, abandoned life jackets, swimming trunks and food wrappers appear along the riverbank.
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Organized races have added safety precautions in addition to mandatory life jackets, including rescue and medical professionals on site.
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The sailboat had seven life jackets, which had given authorities and the father's wife and brothers hope of a rescue.
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Rescuers also found six life jackets that they believe were among the seven flotation devices the family had on board.
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Investigators had no information about whether passengers were wearing life jackets or whether they were stowed onboard, the sheriff said.
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""When that boat is found, all those life jackets are going to be on there because nobody pulled one off.
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"All life jackets do is help searchers find a body faster," said Robert Smith of the NSW Fishing Clubs Association.
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Personal locator beacons (PLBs), which attach to clothing or life jackets, also might have helped searchers find the boys themselves.
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It was also missing a sailing permit, and the life jackets on board were not up to standard, Karya said.
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Peoples asks parents to be cautious and urges them to put on life jackets or strap boogie boards to kids.
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The duck boat had life jackets An off-duty deputy working security helped rescue people, Rader said, without providing details.
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The duck boat contained life jackets, but passengers weren't required to wear them, according to Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader.
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Fellow survivor Talyssa Mann, a 280-year-old from Carlsbad, New Mexico, said Coleman's statement about life jackets was correct.
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Coleman said the boat's captain pointed out the life jackets but told those aboard there was no need for them.
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The migrants — fleeing wars, oppression and poverty — often do not know how to swim and do not have life jackets.
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Other footage depicted hundreds of people strapped in fluorescent life jackets as water rushed past their feet inside the ship.
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One survivor told Doctors Without Borders that the migrants could not swim, and that only a few had life jackets.
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One image depicted charity workers handing out life jackets to migrants on an overflowing raft off the coast of Libya.
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The boat that sank had life jackets, but the sheriff said he did not know if people were wearing them.
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The Phoenix, stocked with life jackets and a full medical clinic, would not be saving any Rohingya this sailing season.
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Video footage taken from another ferry showed life jackets being thrown to a dozen or more people in the water.
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Rescuers also found life jackets that they believe were among the eight of nine flotation devices the family had on board.
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Scott Stoermer said the investigation will also look into whether the boat captain followed company guidelines regarding use of life jackets.
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An aircraft wheel, two life jackets and some bags with clothes - believed to be from the missing plane - were found earlier.
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Authorities were seeking public assistance to locate Suarez and Devil, who were both wearing life jackets when they were last seen.
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The Maltese ship coordinated with Romaniuk, realizing only moments before the transfer that they had failed to bring children's life jackets.
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The Egyptian civil aviation ministry said Greek authorities had found "floating material" and life jackets likely to be from the plane.
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Transport minister Budi Karya said on Wednesday the boat was designed for 43 passengers and had 45 life jackets on board.
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He boasted about underfeeding the migrants staying in his warehouses, and brushed off the idea of providing them with life jackets.
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Sea accidents are frequent in Indonesia, a sprawling archipelago, with vessels often overloaded and having too few life jackets on boat.
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Life jackets were on the boat, but there is no regulation mandating that duck boat passengers wear them, Pattison said Friday.
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There were life jackets on the boat, but passengers weren't required to wear them, according to Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader.
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There were life jackets on board, but Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader didn't confirm if passengers were wearing them, Reuters reports.
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There were life jackets on the boat, but passengers weren't required to wear them, according to Rader, the Stone County sheriff.
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Seamen in orange life jackets then lined up along the starboard rail, shouting unintelligibly down into the wind and crashing seas.
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There were no life jackets, but it was a short trip and the rescuers promised to come right back for him.
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The two men spent 43 hours together in open water, using life jackets solely at night in case they fell asleep.
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Their stories were recorded on video, but also illustrated in ink drawings that unfold on the backs of nine life jackets.
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Missouri law requires boat passengers ages 7 and younger to wear life jackets, but commercial vessels like the duck boats are exempt.
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He said it was traumatic seeing bodies, including those of several young children, in the boat&aposs cabins, some wearing life jackets.
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Caregivers should also consider learning CPR, teaching their children water-safety skills, and putting life jackets on their kids, the AAP says.
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Coleman said that while they were on the boat, the captain had told passengers not to worry about putting on life jackets.
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This time around, however, the ship will include an appropriate number of life boats, life-jackets and plenty of modern safety features.
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Television images on Tuesday showed dozens of passengers hanging on to the keeling vessel or bobbing in the water wearing life jackets.
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The songstress went all out for her 27th birthday, hosting a Titanic-themed bash complete with life jackets and a grand staircase.
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An aircraft wheel, two life jackets and some bags with clothes - believed to be from the missing plane - were found on Thursday.
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Passenger Ryan Flynn shared video to Twitter of a crowd of passengers wearing life jackets as water flooded the ground beneath them.
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Rescue teams in boats carrying GPS devices, binoculars, life jackets and oxygen tanks for survivors, have found little on the lake's surface.
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A Navy plane spotted the huge sign along with the men waving their life jackets on Thursday and came to their rescue.
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In an exchange over Facebook, survivor Talyssa Mann, 19 of Carlsbad, New Mexico, said Coleman's statement about the life jackets was correct.
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Our dutiful guides outfitted us with helmets and life jackets, and we began a long, uphill trek that took about an hour.
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An ecstatic woman greeted them and blew kisses, while the two dogs, Zeus and Valentine, wearing bright, yellow life jackets, barked excitedly.
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Strapped into bright orange life jackets, we clamored into a speedboat that took us from the mainland quay to the famous beach.
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Fire extinguishers, life jackets, weather radios and other safety devices are all recommended for boaters anytime, but especially during the holiday weekend.
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There were life jackets on the boat, but Stone County Sheriff Doug Rader said he doesn't know whether people were wearing them.
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Similarly, there are those who go out onto Lake Erie to fish from a 14-foot overcrowded aluminum boat without life jackets.
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Mr. Vijayan's government ordered helicopters to airdrop lifeboats, life jackets and other flotation devices to stranded groups of 50 or more people.
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Mr. Donathan has also prepared life jackets and rope for what he hopes is the unlikely prospect that floodwaters overwhelm his house.
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Along with life-saving equipment like first-aid kits and life jackets, IOM has supplied the Libyan coast guard with registration equipment.
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Those carried downriver were wearing life jackets and helmets, but Castro said it was a battle to keep his head above water.
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Hurriyet said the life jackets were made of material that did not float and became heavy when soaked, causing the wearer to sink.
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"From what I understand there was life jackets in the duck," Rader said, but he declined to say if passengers were wearing them.
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The famous couple hit the water with helmets, life jackets, in Jay's case a wet suit, and shades as they cruised the coast.
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Aircraft parts and the remains of two adults and a child, along with life jackets and luggage were discovered at 2000:224 a.m.
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Thousands of life jackets litter the shores of Lesbos, the Greek island receiving the bulk of refugees headed for the rest of Europe.
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Video footage provided by the agency showed people on another ferry throwing life preservers and life jackets to several people in the water.
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Images from the scene posted to the Thai Navy's Facebook page showed some of the rescued passengers wearing life jackets on inflatable rafts.
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Parents should not rely on inflatable floaties, he said, but should look for Coast Guard-approved life jackets when children need flotation devices.
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The crew grabbed cold beers, took off their life jackets and huddled together on the weather hull of their black and red catamaran.
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The transport minister said investigators would check whether the doomed boat had been equipped with life jackets and whether they had been used.
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The Conception had a bunk capacity of 46 people but had enough rafts and life jackets for 110 passengers, its operating company said.
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Hundreds of other people wearing life jackets, meanwhile, waited on board, in a dramatic scene captured by photos and videos shared on Twitter.
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"Some men across the channel at Dunkirk need taking off," he tells a boy, who sees the dozens of life jackets being loaded on.
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The artwork installed 217,218 life jackets worn by refugees who fled to Greece at Copenhagen's Kunsthal Charlottenborg from June 227 to October 1, 2017.
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Regulations mandate there must be enough life jackets for everyone on board, Stoermer said, but the captain decides whether passengers need to wear them.
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Survivor Tia Coleman told reporters from her hospital bed on Saturday that the boat&aposs captain told riders they would not need life jackets.
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Rescue crews traversed the city in high-water vehicles, their crews in life jackets and helmets, and in trucks towing boats and Jet Skis.
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Its expanse of orange is interrupted by a black band across its lower third, recalling the life jackets worn by those crossing the Mediterranean.
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There are over 300 boating-related deaths each year, according to the CDC, and half of those could be prevented if people used life jackets.
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On January 3, a marine surveyor checked the boat and found there were not enough life jackets or space on the aluminum boats for passengers.
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Created for World Refugee Day, it consists of 3,500 discarded, bright orange life jackets used by migrants who fled persecution and landed in Lesvos, Greece.
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The passengers were 50 yards out to shore, hanging on to the airplane wings and wearing life jackets when the lifeguard reached them, said Enright.
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The sparkly and bright life jackets take the shape of a mermaid, and come in a variety of colors, including orange, green, purple, and blue.
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The crew's failure to call for help was costly, say maritime safety professionals, because many of those in life jackets could have survived for hours.
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We started taking life-jackets off of people as they climbed up (into the rescue boat) and throwing them to people falling into the water.
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It also recommended that if a boat has inadequate reserve buoyancy, passengers should be required to wear life jackets and the canopy should be removed.
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Coleman said the boat's captain, who was among the survivors, pointed out the life jackets but told those aboard there was no need for them.
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The Egyptian civil aviation ministry initially said Greek authorities had found "floating material" and life jackets likely to be from the plane, an Airbus A320.
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Unused orange life jackets dangled from the frame of the boat as a haunting reminder of the chain of events that occurred five days ago.
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Whether you're partying on a dinghy or a yacht, the US Coast Guard requires boat owners to provide enough life jackets for everyone on board.
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When the Italian rescuers showed up, the passengers forced their way toward the edge of their boat, their arms outstreched for life jackets or helping hands.
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Within minutes, all of us were careening down the river with life jackets and helmets just trying to stabilize and find something to hold on to.
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It also recommended that boats should have life-saving appliances -- such as life jackets -- for every passenger on board, and that these should be inspected regularly.
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A Navy P-8 aircrew operating out of Misawa Air Base in Japan spotted the "help" sign and the castaways waiving their life jackets Thursday morning.
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Two other bodies were found at the weekend on the western shore of the Sea of Japan island of Sado, with life jackets displaying Korean lettering.
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The tax workers, many of them wearing life jackets, formed a giant circle in the lake, kicking and treading water, oblivious to the creatures around them.
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The captain mentioned the life jackets before they went on the lake but said, "you won't need them so we didn't grab them," Coleman said Saturday.
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The firm's effort focused in part on the discovery of two life jackets and a floatation device on the Georgia shore shortly after the boys' disappearance.
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"They tell you where the life jackets are, how to put them on ... the exits, where the fire extinguishers are, on every single trip," said Schuller.
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Citing the accounts of some survivors, he said there had been a good number of life jackets aboard the doomed vessel that passengers did not wear.
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Now, she sometimes sits poolside, helping other women into an array of yellow and brown life jackets before they enter the water for their first time.
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Online videos of Branson duck boat tours from recent years show life jackets stowed beneath the roof of the boats, within arm's reach of an adult.
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More than two-thirds of all boating fatalities are from drownings, and 90% of those drowning victims were not wearing life jackets, according to the BoatUS Foundation.
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Unused orange life jackets dangled from the frame of the boat as a haunting reminder of the chain of events that occurred less than a week ago.
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Last year he covered the facade of Berlin's concert hall with 14,000 life jackets from refugees, many of whom lost their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean.
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All of the swimmers who are not guides are now required to wear life jackets to ensure that no one tries to swim underneath the whale sharks.
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The men said their 20-foot fishing boat started taking on water and a rogue wave capsized the vessel before they could even put on life jackets.
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Some eastern Sydney beaches are trying out a rule for rock fishermen to wear life jackets, but there are no fines yet for those who do not.
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Opinion WE'RE in the kayak, my mother and I, and although the water is calm and we're both wearing life jackets, I'm starting to have second thoughts.
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The migrants, many of whom do not know how to swim and do not have life jackets, pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to make the crossing.
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There are 371 search-and-rescue officials working on the coasts that bookend the Sunda Strait, all equipped with life jackets in the event of anther tsunami.
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This art installation by noted Chinese artist Ai Weiwei showcased 14,000 used life jackets previously worn by refugees traveling from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.
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Life jackets abandoned by migrants who have made the crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos are delivered to a dump on November 13, 2015.
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When Souras was on the Greek island of Lesbos — a major port for refugees seeking asylum in Europe — he saw life jackets washed up on the shore.
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"If you're looking for proof that life jackets save lives, there it is," she added, noting that wearing a life jacket is not currently required by law.
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" He added that "they tell you where the life jackets are, how to put them on… the exits, where the fire extinguishers are, on every single trip.
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Cover: Life jackets are seen washed up on a beach after dozens of migrants drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Sabrata on September 21, 2017.
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Related: 3,500 Salvaged Life Jackets Storm Denmark for Ai Weiwei's Latest Here's How Ai Weiwei Is Fighting Lego's "Censorship" Ai Weiwei on the Perils of Nuclear Power
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Now she makes and sells bags and jewelry out of the starkest symbol of Europe's refugee crisis: the boats and life-jackets once strewn across Greece's shores.
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At this time, it is unclear what caused Burillo's sons to be thrown overboard and whether they were wearing life jackets at the time of the incident.
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The kayaks weren't with the life jackets and other debris linked to the sailboat, which also had encouraged searchers but the kayaks were located later Wednesday, Case said.
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The images also showed survivors being lifted from the rafts and sitting in life jackets amid ropes on the deck of what appears to be a fishing trawler.
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They also showed survivors being lifted from the rafts and sitting in their life jackets amid ropes on the deck of what appears to be a fishing trawler.
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Officials were interviewing the captain and investigating allegations by some passengers that they did not have life-jackets, Vice Transport Minister Alejandro Maya told journalists at the scene.
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Every day, they heard and read stories of stormy waters causing accidents and of families drowning at sea because they didn't have enough money to buy life jackets.
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"If anything goes wrong, you're very close to the life jackets," she said on a recent Sunday, as she watched the crowd board from the Wall Street dock.
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Soldiers in life jackets and camouflage pants were scrambling into a boat to make rescues in a nearby area, and they expected to be kept busy for hours.
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While the rest of the passengers hurried to their rooms to put on their life jackets and adventure boots, I set up a telescope on the observation deck.
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Thousands of life jackets and rubber boats, used by people who immigrated from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos, are abandoned in Skala Sikamineas, Greece, Oct. 8.
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The shoreline was once bright orange from hundreds of discarded life jackets, but they have since been cleared, as have the dozens of deflated dinghies which littered it.
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It posted pictures of at least nine plastic jerry cans inside the container, as well as a pile of life-jackets apparently intended for use in a boat crossing.
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"Unfortunately, it is all too common that we have accidents on the Colorado River, and unfortunately in this case … no one was wearing life jackets," Schuster told the press.
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Ai debuted his newest installation outside the venue that hosted Monday's event, adorning its columns with 14,20163 life jackets previously worn by refugees trying to make it to Europe.
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Suarez and Devil were both wearing life jackets when they headed out to sea for their excursion at Holetown Beach on the island's western coast around 2:30 p.m.
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I know I'm "easily offended" // harshly critical but is anyone else disturbed that #Adele had a #Titanic themed bday party where they wore life jackets on the dance floor?
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The work called "Soleil Levant", which translates to "Rising Sun", displayed more than 3,500 life jackets collected from refugees and migrants who landed on the Greek island of Lesbos.
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After three days on the island, the survivors were spotted by the aircraft holding their life jackets in the air, with the handmade S.O.S. sign evident from the sky.
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"The safety board is particularly concerned that both adults and children wearing life jackets are at risk of being drowned if entrapped by the overhead canopy," the report reads.
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Thousands of news arrivals are pouring onto the islands daily, packed onto small rubber dinghies, traveling from wearing bright orange life jackets which are quickly discarded on the beach.
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Even with life jackets tossed to them, migrants struggled to reach the Astral and other rescue vessels, which later transferred them to Italian Coast Guard ships bound for Italy.
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Stirred by witness accounts of how the men gave up their life jackets, the government in 1944 posthumously awarded each chaplain the Distinguished Service Cross and a Purple Heart.
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The South Korean tourists who were found dead were not wearing life jackets when their small sightseeing boat capsized, said Kang Hyong-sik, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official.
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We drew a small crowd of local spectators: Workmen, sea gulls and neighborhood mongrels watched quizzically as we tried on life jackets and adjusted our kayaks' seats and rudders.
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Pick a life jacket with a snug fit that doesn't slide past your ears or chin and pay attention to state laws that require children to wear life jackets.
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When Musaab reached the beach the night the boat was leaving, he found it packed with more than 500 men, women, and children—and no life jackets to be seen.
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Wear a life jacket The pediatrics group recommends that children always wear life jackets when boating or near bodies of water, including nonswimmers and children who know how to swim.
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Missouri law requires boat passengers ages 173 and younger to wear life jackets whenever they&aposre on the water, but commercial vessels like the duck boat that sank are exempt.
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A survivor of the tourist boat accident that killed 21200 people, including nine of her relatives, says the captain of the boat told passengers not to bother grabbing life jackets.
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Their 18-foot boat began to take on water in the rough seas, and the men quickly put on life jackets and attempted to call 911 before the boat sank.
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With an interest in "the material traces of refugee flows," they are also working on a project that repurposes rubber waste from dinghies and life jackets into backpacks for refugees.
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Speaking from her hospital bed to Fox 59 News, Coleman said that while they were on the boat, the captain told passengers not to worry about putting on life jackets.
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About 20 Greenpeace activists, wearing life jackets and carrying life rafts, blocked EDF's headquarters in central Paris on Thursday for a second day, waving signs saying "EDF is going under".
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He adorned the columns of the venue with 14,000 life jackets previously worn by refugees trying to make it to Europe, in the hopes of highlighting the ongoing refugee crisis.
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Then they boarded the rubber or wooden vessels, but only those co-opted to run or drive the boats were given life-jackets, according to accounts given to Italian police.
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It was unclear how many people had been rescued, and television images showed dozens of passengers hanging on to the keeling vessel or bobbing in the water wearing life jackets.
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In one episode, on Good Friday, a group of migrants were issued with life jackets and lined up on the edge of their dinghy, ready to transfer to an RHIB.
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The ship will be able to accommodate 2,400 passengers and will feature modern day navigation technology and safety systems, including an adequate number of lifeboats and life jackets for passengers.
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Sky News showed people, some wearing life jackets and others wrapped in blankets, being escorted by border force officials to the shore in the port of Dover in southeastern England.
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The Royal Barbados Police Force said it is seeking public assistance to locate Oscar Suarez, 32, and Magdalena Devil, 25, who were both wearing life jackets when they were last seen.
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Coleman told local station KOLR that when the passengers first boarded the duck boat, staff told them where the life jackets were, but said they would not need the floatation devices.
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Karen Abbott, who lost her brother and sister-in-law, William and Janice Bright, in the boat sinking, also spoke out against the boat company's practice of making life jackets optional.
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" To that end, life jackets and inflatable rafts were an inspiration: "We wanted to make clothes to help wearer feel lifted and elevated, like they could survive in rough, open waters.
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The severely overcrowded wooden fishing boat described by survivors as "old, decrepit, un-seaworthy" and carrying no life jackets or floatation devices left late last Thursday from Sabratha, Libya, police said.
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In addition to the salvage effort, investigators are looking into questions about the accident, including ones about the weather, life jackets, the boat and the actions of the crew, officials said.
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Life jackets float during a training exercise by the German NGO Sea-Eye, which was on its way to a search and rescue zone off the North African coast, Aug. 29.
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Fan Li Xia said the group, tied together on the catamaran in life jackets, were swept away by the current and struggled in the cold water for more than 30 hours.
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"The trip is on Saturday, from Mersin to Italy, on a merchant ship 110 meters long, equipped with food, water, life jackets and medicine," the Guardian quoted the Facebook post as saying.
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The show's hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman found that the two could have stayed afloat together if they just would have tied their life jackets to the door for extra buoyancy.
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At 11.14am it is just possible to see a small speck on the horizon: a sliver of white and orange (from the life-jackets) amid the blue of the sea and sky.
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Once the migrants are on board—women and children first—they discard their life-jackets (often flimsy fake ones provided by unscrupulous smugglers) and are screened with a hand-held metal detector.
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In early February, the artist Gray staged an artistic intervention called Tipping point, during which he placed 15 life jackets made from ice outside the museum, as well as on Parliament Square.
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Munna, a boatman who has been ferrying devotees for two decades, said his passengers had never been more satisfied at the arrangements than this year, including the provision of free life jackets.
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There was previously confusion over the discovery of possible debris, with Egyptian officials initially saying on Thursday Greek authorities had found "floating material" and life jackets likely to be from the plane.
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Patterson's reports also discuss talks with Tarin Anthon, hired by Six Maritime to conduct a K-9 search in a Wassa Marsh area where the life jackets and floatation device were found.
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A plane wheel, two life jackets and some bags with clothes - believed to be from the missing Chinese-made Y-8-200F transport plane - were also found, an earlier army statement said.
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Arabic advertisements for furnished apartments appeal to displaced Syrians looking to settle down, while orange life jackets hang outside shops for those brave or desperate enough to attempt a crossing to Europe.
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The Coast Guard requires life jackets to be available for each passenger on a boat, including duck boats, but allows the crew to decide when to instruct passengers to put them on.
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Soon everyone moves up the shoreline, past a lighthouse, an olive press, limp life jackets hanging in trees, and a relief camp run by anarchists, where two dogs in wool vests lounge amiably.
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A woman who is reportedly among the survivors of a duck boat that capsized in a Missouri lake on Thursday claimed that the vessel's captain told passengers that wearing life jackets wasn't necessary.
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"The captain had told us, 'Don't worry about grabbing the life jackets, you won't need them,' " Tia recalled of his alleged message, which she said came as they were already in the water.
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Other airlines have also figured out clever ways to recycle in-flight materials, such as KLM turning used uniforms into aircraft carpets and Air France turning old posters and life jackets into bags.
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Earlier on Wednesday, the Coast Guard announced that debris – including a tarp, six life jackets, water bottles and a propane tank – was found 27 miles into the Gulf of Mexico from Sanibel Island.
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Afterward, the National Transportation Safety Board warned that the boats' canopy roofs presented a hazard, making it difficult for people, even those wearing life jackets, to escape if one of the vessels capsized.
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"I know I'm "easily offended" // harshly critical but is anyone else disturbed that #Adele had a #Titanic themed bday party where they wore life jackets on the dance floor?" wrote on Twitter user.
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Travelers can volunteer in a large-scale effort to remove boat parts and life jackets from miles of beaches and sea floor, or help distribute food and clothing to migrants stuck on Lesbos.
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Although the nationalities of these two have not yet been established, what appeared to be North Korean cigarettes and life jackets with Korean lettering on them were nearby, the JCG's Sado station said.
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But the decor has been spiced up with statues choking on tear gas, cherubs hanging from the ceiling, their faces covered by oxygen masks and oil paintings of refugee life jackets washed ashore.
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At one point, she said, one of the two employees on the vehicle — one operated it on water, the other on land — told them not to worry about putting on their life jackets.
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They also supply paddles and life jackets for those who want to use the canoes that are stashed in the various camping areas, a practice that is officially frowned on by the park.
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Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala's chief minister, tweeted on Thursday asking residents to "stand in open areas on top of buildings and houses" to be airlifted, and said lifeboats and life jackets would be airdropped.
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University students on the Greek island of Lesbos, which saw an unprecedented influx of refugees from Turkey last year, have created a giant chessboard made from discarded academic papers and refugee life jackets.
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Early investigations into the disaster revealed that passengers were not wearing life jackets and a passenger manifest was not available to account for the total number of people on board the boat, Muhini said.
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" During a phone conversation from the hospital with FOX59 on Friday, Tia claimed that the captain of the duck boat "had told us, 'Don't worry about grabbing the life jackets, you won't need them.
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Subpar boats and life jackets, rough winter conditions, and continued demand for crossings — an estimated 80,000 refugees and migrants have attempted the journey since the start of 2016 —contribute to the high death roll.
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Titled Law of the Journey, and sitting inside the large Turbine Hall on the island, the work resembles a colossal black rubber life raft, bulging with hundreds of anonymous human figures wearing life jackets.
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No one was wearing a life jacket The 17 people who died in the duck boat tragedy were not wearing life jackets when found, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN Sunday.
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"The captain told us 'don't worry about grabbing the life jackets, you won't need them,' so nobody grabbed them because we listened to the captain and he told us to stay seated," Coleman said.
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A Missouri law requires boat passengers ages 7 and younger to wear life jackets whenever they&aposre on the water, but commercial vessels like the duck boat that sank in Table Rock Lake are exempt.
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A survivor of the Missouri duck boat sinking that killed 17 people during a severe storm Thursday said the captain told passengers they didn't need to wear life jackets even as conditions grew more perilous.
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Related: Best of 2015: 'Those Who Arrive Here Want to Become Ghosts'— Milan's People Smuggling Trade With no life jackets, dozens of migrants have drowned on this leg of the route every year since 2013.
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But a dispute still rages whether anglers on rock platforms should wear life jackets, which fishing groups say could endanger anglers by restricting their mobility in the water, despite numerous recommendations to make them compulsory.
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Branson, Missouri (CNN)The 17 people who died in the duck boat tragedy last week in southwestern Missouri were not wearing life jackets when found, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN Sunday.
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Turkish police raided a workshop in the coastal city of Izmir that has been making defective life jackets intended to be sold to refugees and migrants making the desperate journey across the Aegean to Greece.
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Somjing Boontham, who said he was the captain of the Phoenix, said he had urged passengers to put on life jackets while crew members frantically lowered lifeboats as huge waves slammed and tilted the boat.
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She wants children to take swimming courses with a water survival component; she is wary of puddle jumpers — popular life jackets that hold a child upright — which she believes can convince children they will float.
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"We haven't, in my lifetime, had people on beaches waiting to be evacuated in life jackets...like it's a peacetime version of something that we have seen during wartime," Anthony Albanese told a news conference.
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Lt. Tasha Sadowicz of the U.S. Coast Guard says commercial vehicles like duck boats are required only to have enough flotation devices for all passengers and crew, and life jackets that fit every child on board.
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The accusations McKee was accused of putting the boat onto the lake even though there was severe weather, operating the duck boat in violation of its limitations and not instructing passengers to put on life jackets.
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"So all of the staff, all of the waiters, waitresses that may be on our showboat actually grabbed life jackets, AEDs, were running up and down the aisles helping as much as they could," Behr said.
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On the island of Lesbos they arrived on crowded rubber boats from Turkey, stumbled up the rocky shore, kissed the ground, tore off their life jackets and hugged one another with tears streaming down their faces.
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Although they were wearing life jackets, they scrambled unsuccessfully to climb back on the jet ski as the towering 10-story, 1,004-foot-long vessel pushed toward them at about 7 mph -- well within harbor rules.
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A tourist who knows where to look can find monuments to earlier dramas: the graveyard of discarded orange life jackets piled in a field, and a few small graveyards of migrants who drowned on the way.
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In Minneapolis, the Institute of Art has wrapped its facade in Ai Weiwei's 2016 work "Safe Passage" — nearly 2,400 blue, orange and red life jackets worn by Syrian refugees during the deadly ocean passage to Greece.
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It means arms-length supervision for the young, and adults who know how to recognize drowning and are trained in C.P.R. It means using Coast Guard-approved life jackets when people are out on open water.
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They brought everything they could tote upstairs — soon the smallest pieces of furniture would be floating — and Dr. Nguyen made a trip to the garage to retrieve five life jackets and a raft, just in case.
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We're shown where our life jackets are -- in a rack toward the rear of the plane -- and rectangular boxes containing the inflatable lift rafts in case the jet has to ditch in the South China Sea.
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With no time to save much of their last remaining possessions, Broadwell and Walsh grabbed their life jackets and their pug, Remy, and escaped into the water as they watched their belongings drift away into the darkness.
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In an interview with FFWCC investigators, former owner Rex Richards said that a shotgun pistol flare gun was on board when he sold the boat, along with three life jackets, a throwable life cushion and two anchors.
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The previous day, more than 30 migrants, mostly toddlers, drowned when about 200 people without life jackets fell from a boat into the sea off the Libyan coast before they could be hauled into waiting rescue boats.
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Diaz said that he, Engrova and Ibañez had encountered a storm on Friday that capsized their boat, and he swam for help while they stayed behind — wearing life jackets — with the overturned vessel, according to the release.
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Jim Pattison Jr., the president of Ripley Entertainment, which acquired the Ride the Ducks attraction in Branson last year, said the boats were always stocked with life jackets, but that people were not required to wear them.
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"We [are] target[ing] the water in the third chamber to reduce to the point that no diving equipment is needed, like to the waistline, so one can wear just life jackets and walk out," Woongsatngiem said.
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In 2016, he adorned the columns of Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt concert house with 14,000 life jackets previously worn by refugees trying to make it to Europe, and posed as drowned Syrian refugee toddler Alan Kurdi for an Indian magazine.
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ROME (Reuters) - More than 30 migrants, mostly toddlers, drowned on Wednesday when about 200 people without life jackets fell from a boat into the sea off the Libyan coast before they could be hauled into waiting rescue boats.
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Made up of more than 3,000 life jackets and built by dozens of volunteers, the sign is a way to honor those who have made the journey and to urge peace in the new year, according to Greenpeace.
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Just a week before Aldeen's arrest, seven other volunteers were arrested for theft after entering a municipal waste facility and removing discarded life jackets that they intended to reuse as mattresses at one of the island's refugee camps.
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The marchers wore orange life jackets in a sign of solidarity with the thousands of African and Asian migrants who have drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean, and brandished a large banner with the slogan 'People Over Borders.
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Fishermen and other tourists in passing boats and on docks tried to pull people up, and some tried to administer C.P.R. People raced to throw life jackets out, but the unstopping wind seemed to toss the jackets back.
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"When I was 0003 years old, I left Vietnam with my mother and younger brother, crammed with 470 other people without life jackets onto an old fishing boat to Malaysia," Pham says in a post published by Uber.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Greek authorities have found "floating material" that is likely to be debris from the EgyptAir plane that crashed over the Mediterranean on Thursday as well as life jackets, the Egyptian civil aviation ministry said in a statement.
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The organization also suggests "employing layers of protection including barriers to prevent access to water, life jackets, and close supervision of children to prevent drowning," learning how to swim efficiently, and knowing what to do in a water emergency.
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"Our members spend a lot of time searching for bodies of people not wearing life jackets, which should be mandatory," said Harvey, who helps patrol a notorious rock fishing platform called Snapper Point, north of Australia's most populous city.
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Pete's a part-time fireman, and it's hard to believe when he's got someone topless in a chokehold (that also, impressively, includes a wedgie), but he goes around the big wave spots handing out free life jackets to newcomers.
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We learn the ship has about an hour till it goes underwater, so the officers are frantically scattering around with smiles on their face trying to get everyone in their life jackets, but instead, there's a ton of detours.
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A bright orange peace sign appeared on a hillside on the Greek island of Lesbos on New Year's Day, transforming a growing pile of life jackets discarded by refugees arriving on the island into a message to the world.
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He already turned his attention to the refugee crisis by covering the facade of Berlin's concert hall with 14,000 life jackets from refugees who landed on Lesbos, many of them losing their lives during the journey across the Mediterranean.
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Raymenants said that continuing to pump water out so the level dropped by several feet, then floating the boys out on life jackets, was a safer bet — but that might not be possible, given the forecasts for heavy rains.
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In the fall of 2015, a Sky News reporter in Greece published a report about what he called a "unique travel guide" that he'd found among abandoned life jackets and rubber dinghies washed up on the beaches of Lesbos.
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Life jackets have become a symbol lately: the bright vests have appeared in numerous installations — some conceived by artists — protesting the handling and ignoring of the refugee crisis by politicians, the media, and those of us who remain unaffected.
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Tia Coleman, one of only two members of that family aboard the boat to survive, said in a hospital bed interview with local media that the captain had told passengers there was no need to put on life jackets.
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As Greece is hit with a third bailout, repetitive Grexit scares, and a refugee crisis to deal with, the margarita-sipping Europeans from the north look on, tucking in gyros and stepping over the washed-up life jackets of war survivors.
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David Cain, who lives in Sea Breeze, just north of Carolina Beach, said he had two kayaks and life jackets on standby in case the storm's flooding threatened his home, which sits a few hundred yards from Cape Fear River.
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Puglia said several of his neighbors had come into his store earlier in the day to get supplies – including all 25 of the life jackets he had in stock – before heading to Houston with boats to help with rescue efforts.
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World Briefing The Turkish authorities have raided a workshop in the Aegean coastal city of Izmir and seized more than 1,200 defective life jackets that would have been sold to migrants, according to a report in the newspaper Hurriyet on Wednesday.
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The paddlers were not wearing life jackets, and one unnamed rescuer said that when drowned bodies were pulled out "you could see that when they fell into the water they were trying to clutch at something," The Legal Evening News said.
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MIRAVALLE, Colombia (Reuters) - The nine former rebel fighters, who traded their guns, battle fatigues and heavy rucksacks for paddles, helmets and life jackets, launch four rafts laden with visitors into the turbulent Pato River, deep in Colombia's dense Amazon jungle.
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Survivors of the dinghy said that a smuggler towed them out to sea for two hours and then at gunpoint forced them to hand over the life jackets they had paid for, plus the dinghy's engine, and left them adrift.
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In February he wrapped the giant columns of the Berlin Konzerthaus with 14,000 life jackets brought from the Greek island of Lesbos, a stepping stone for hundreds of thousands of boat refugees last year, many fleeing wars in the Middle East.
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More than 60 people fell into the water in the ensuing panic, but no one was injured as life jackets had already been given out, MSF and SOS Mediteranee said, broadly corroborating an earlier report by humanitarian group Jugend Rettet.
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"So all of the staff, all of the waiters, waitresses that may be on our showboat actually grabbed life jackets, AEDs, were running up and down the aisles helping as much as they could," he said, referring to automated external defibrillators.
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Not enough life jackets The Indonesian emergency services believe most of the bodies of the victims are still trapped inside the two-tier Sinar Bangun at the bottom of the lake, which is up to 505 meters (1,103 feet) deep.
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In this photo taken through a car window, piles of life jackets used by refugees and migrants to cross the Aegean sea from the Turkish coast remain stacked on the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, on Wednesday, on Thursday, Jan.
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In his latest large-scale installation, Soleil Levant, Weiwei collected more than 3,13 life jackets salvaged from refugees who arrived at the Greek island of Lesbos, and stuffed them into the giant windows of the Copenhagen art museum Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
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But everyone here knows about the cash handouts, fishing and farming subsidies, crates of mineral water and life jackets for children who take river boats to school - and they know all that comes from Najib's long-ruling coalition, Barisan Nasional (BN).
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Though fewer people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea at the same point this year than in 2016, a higher proportion die doing it, according to the International Organization for Migration, as smugglers pack migrants onto increasingly flimsy boats without life jackets.
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Each chess piece is formed by paper used by the students and destined to the landfill, and life jackets left behind by the hundreds of thousands of refugees who arrived on the shores of Lesbos, seeking for a new life.
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Frantic efforts are now underway to drain as much water as possible from the cave so the boys and their coach can either wade out with life jackets or – if that proves impossible – exit the cave underwater with the help of scuba gear.
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Some of his output is hard to criticize, like bringing a piano to a refugee camp and asking a Syrian pianist to play for the first time in years, or covering a museum's front pillars with hundreds of neon orange life jackets.
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As those who do manage to make it to shore quickly move further on into Europe, their life jackets stay behind as a growing reminder of the movement of people through the area, as well as the lives that have been lost.
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The grand jury alleged that he failed to properly assess incoming weather before and as he put the vessel in the water, failed to instruct passengers to wear life jackets, and operated the boat in violation of weather conditions and its limitations.
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The Italian navy patrol boat Bettica saw that the vessel was in difficulty and approached it to hand out life jackets, but before it could begin a rescue the boat flipped over due to the sudden movement of the passengers, a statement said.
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At one point, she asked why it was difficult to find missing passengers when they had life jackets; an official had to remind her that the passengers were trapped inside the ship, which had overturned and all but disappeared below the water.
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The various repayment programs being touted by the democrats, similarly, look good on paper and attractive to future voters, but those who are out of school and have tried using these programs now realize that they are more like anchors dressed up like life jackets.
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So he used them to create "igloos" as emergency shelters, each one made up of more than 30 life jackets, shining a light on the dangerous journey that hundreds of thousands of refugees make (and don't always survive) across the Mediterranean Sea each year.
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I've swum with whale sharks off the coast of Mexico and spent eight days at sea sailing from Panama to Colombia through deserted Caribbean islands, which was incredible, even if there were no life jackets and I spent most of those eight days terrified.
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The sailboat has not yet been located, but the Coast Guard announced that debris – including a tarp, six life jackets, water bottles, two kayaks the boat was towing and a propane tank – was found 33 miles into the Gulf of Mexico from Sanibel Island on Wednesday.
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Besides the survivalist symbolism of rafts and life jackets, the design process of working with inflatables has significance, too: inflatable sleeves are "so tight, they're like blood pressure monitors, which parallels what everyone's feeling politically, and how [today's politics] can cause high blood pressure," she said.
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From the Middle East to mainland Europe, CNBC takes a look at some of 93's most striking photographs, such as this image from March, which shows life jackets and boats used by refugees to cross the sea from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.
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"Floating devices, lifeboats and life jackets will be air dropped to stranded groups of 50 or more people," Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's office said in a tweet on Thursday, appealing to people to stand in open areas or on top of houses and other buildings to ensure quick airlifting.
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The film is one of several projects that Ai has been working on regarding the global refugee crisis, including the ongoing Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, his collection of site-specific installations in New York City, and his 2016 installation consisting of 14,000 life jackets wrapping Berlin's Konzerthaus venue.
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The rescue effort has been working toward three main options: teaching the boys to scuba dive out, locating an opening down to their position to bring them out, or pumping water out of the complex until it is low enough for the boys to exit wearing life jackets.
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Tia Coleman — one of the people aboard the duck boat tour that capsized in Missouri, killing 17 victims including nine members of her family — claims the vessel's captain told passengers not to worry about using life jackets as the boat was rocking in the rough waters of Table Rock Lake.
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At the Centerport Yacht Club early Tuesday afternoon, three students, all wearing life jackets, were taking part in a sailing class during which their boat was intentionally capsized into the water on the North Shore as part of the lesson, according to a statement released by the Suffolk Police Department.
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The National Park Service also recommends making a packing list of things you may need according to the activities you have planned (proper boots for hiking, life jackets for kayaking) and then testing your equipment before arriving so you know if anything won't work for you before you get there.
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A new team entered the Olympic Games in Rio last year: The Refugee Nation, made up of 10 displaced people from around the world, with a new orange and black flag design inspired by the life jackets worn by those that had travelled across seas hoping for a new life.
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"According to the disaster prediction, we have prepared rescue teams and equipment in key areas -- 356 technical teams, 297 construction squads, 141 rescue boats, and 75 rubber dinghies as well as materials such as life jackets and buoys," said Xie Dongming, a flood prevention official in the city of Zhangzhou.
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Oscillating between the registers of male- and female-presenting, Varble conducted silent and unofficial "Costume Tours" of art galleries in SoHo and the Upper East Side, often wearing outfits tailored from leaking milk cartons, plastic pearl codpieces, egg crates, chicken bones, liquor packaging, pipe cleaners, life jackets, and cheese graters.
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"Survivors told us that parents had to choose between trying to protect their children by staying on the boat and hoping it wouldn't sink, or jumping into the water and watching them drown," said Dharma, adding that many of the passengers couldn't swim and there were not enough life jackets on board.
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"The Port Huron Float Down event has no official organizer and poses significant and unusual hazards given the fast-moving current, large number of participants, lack of life jackets, and as was the case this year, very challenging weather conditions," said Carol Launderville, spokesperson for the Canadian Coast Guard on the Great Lakes in a statement.
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Canada has a reputation for welcoming refugees — but with hundreds entering from the US each month, some fear that could changeInside the Syrian camp that is a 'ticking time bomb' for another wave of ISIS violenceCountless refugees have been saved at sea by their life jackets — now a Minnesota startup is selling them as bracelets to spread messages of hope
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Here are the best life jackets, life vests, and PFDs:Best life jacket overall: Astral BlueJacket Kayak Life VestBest for fishing: NRS Chinook Fishing PFDBest for small children: O'Neill Wake USCG VestBest inflatable vest: Onyx M-24 Manual Inflatable VestBest affordable vest: Stearns Adult Classic Series VestBest for dogs: Outward Hound Granby Dog Life JacketUpdated on 10/29/2019 by Owen Burke: Updated formatting, links, and copy.
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Though there are a few clumsy gestures at moments of great crisis — as a mother dies in childbirth, a startled stork takes off from the roof — the most moving and even uncomfortable images are clearly taken from Sepetys's extensive sources: A mother desperate to get her baby off the sinking ship hurls the infant down to a sailor and misses; the corpses of children in life jackets float upside down because of the disproportional size of their heads.
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