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How much is the cost of a Zodiac inflatable boat or a Dinghy inflatable boat?
Jul 26, 2009 by Gena | Posted in Boats & Boating
around 12' and can hold about 5 people. ive looked on their website but it doesnt give me a cost. so if anyone who ones one please tell me how much they paid for it thatd be great! and if u can the price of the motor if possible :)
www.westmarine.com
www.defenderindustries.com
Zodiac Inflatable Boat at Oxwich Bay, Wales.
A relaxing burble around Oxwich Bay in Wales on a sunny day.
Neuse River Day returns with debut of dragon boat races
31.12.69
Neuse River Day returns in June after a year layoff — this time with dragons.
The Neuse River Day Dragon Boat Festival scheduled for June 2 at Union Point Park promotes the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation’s mission of cleaner water.
The family event is a joint venture of the Riverkeeper Foundation and the Craven County Convention and Visitors Center. It fosters an understanding and appreciation of the area’s most important natural resource — the Neuse and Trent rivers.
The daylong festival will feature children’s activities and rides on the Joy boy and the skipjack, Ada Mae.
Food will include a Neuse River Day tradition — free-range barbecue along with assorted vendors.
Source: New Bern Sun Journal
Brooklyn Artist Duke Riley Pits the Animals of the Zodiac Against Each Other ...
31.12.69
The story behind the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac runs like this: China's Jade Emperor called a meeting in heaven, and asked all the animals to attend . The 12 that arrived fastest would have a year in the 12-year cycle named after them. As things shook out, the rat pulled some dirty tricks on the ox and the cat during a river crossing to come in first place. But Duke Riley — a Brooklyn artist known for his nautical spectacles, staging dramatic naval battles and piloting guerrilla submarines — may well rewrite mythology when he restages a version of the legendary race in Shanghai on April 15.
For “The Rematch,” the sculptor and performance-planner is working with local artists in the suburbs of Shanghai to create a series of decorated gondolas which will carry real live Zodiac animals sourced from the countryside down the Caogang River, starting from the city’s Ming dynasty old town past newly built condominiums. Thus, once more, sheep, cats, roosters, and the rest will square off in a battle for supremacy. May the best beast win.
Source: ARTINFO
Environmentalists take aim at toxic lead in ammunition
31.12.69
Using a canoe or her 10-foot Zodiac boat, Martha Jordan has scooped up hundreds of sick or dead trumpeter and tundra swans from Judson Lake in northwestern Washington state, the site of one of the worst known cases of lead poisoning among wildlife.</p><p> According to her count, at least 2,700 of them have died or needed to be euthanized since 1999 after eating lead from ammunition left in the wild by hunters. Jordan, a 62-year-old wildlife biologist from Everett, Wash., wonders why the federal government won't help more of the birds live by banning lead in ammunition.</p><p> "I live with the results of lead shot," she said. "I live it, I breathe it - and it just sickens me when people continue to use it. ... It's pretty heart-wrenching for everybody involved. I don't want to do this. I don't want to spend my time picking up dying swans. We pick them up every year. It's a constant, chronic problem."</p><p> In a move opposed by many hunters, Jordan, along with 100 organizations in 35 states, wants the Environmental Protection Agency to ban or severely limit the use of toxic lead in hunting ammunition.</p><p> In a petition filed with the agency last week, the groups said that up to 20 million birds in the United States die each year after nibbling on bullet fragments, including swans, golden and bald eagles, mourning doves, California condors and more than 70 other species.</p><p> For Jeff Miller, a conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity, it's a "national tragedy" and one that easily could be prevented. The nonprofit group, headquartered in Tucson, Ariz., is leading the effort for a federal clampdown, saying it's a logical progression after the EPA moved to reduce lead exposure in drinking water, paint, gasoline, toys and batteries.</p><p> While acknowledging that it would be more costly, they want hunters to use non-toxic ammunition. Miller said that non-lead bullets are now available in all 50 states, with more than a dozen manufacturers marketing hundreds of varieties and calibers made from copper, steel and other metals. The proposed ban would not apply to ammunition used by law enforcement or the military.</p><p> Republican Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington state, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee and an opponent of the proposed ban, called it a "job-destroying effort" and said proponents of the ban have turned to the EPA "because they know that Congress will protect the Second Amendment and sportsmen's interests" in defending the use of traditional ammunition.</p><p> "The ban on lead bullets would not only increase costs for hunters, sport shooters and fishermen, but would devastate the outdoor sportsmen and recreation industries that thrive in rural America," Hastings said, responding in a statement to questions about the issue.</p><p> </p><p> Jordan bristles at such an argument.</p><p> "We've taken lead out of every other thing in our lives, or most everything, and we know that it's a toxic substance," she said. "And we know that lead is toxic to all life. Why is it that in the name of a recreational sport we allow lead to be spewed out onto our lands - public and private - and pollute it so that wildlife of all kinds and shapes can die and we can contaminate the soil? ... There is no need to continue to pollute our world, my world, everyone's world."</p><p> </p><p> A partial ban is already in effect.</p><p> Since 1991, the federal government has banned the use of lead shot for waterfowl hunting, and states and local jurisdictions have passed laws on their own. Whatcom County in Washington state, home of Judson Lake on the U.S.-Canadian border, passed a similar ban in 1989.</p><p> But environmentalists say the patchwork of laws hasn't gone far enough, noting that too many birds are still dying after eating lead that's still allowed in most places for the hunting of upland birds, small mammals, big-game hunting and target practice.</p><p> Miller said that nearly 500 scientific papers have documented the dangers to wildlife from lead exposure. In the United States, he said, 3,000 tons of lead are shot into the environment by hunters each year, with another 80,000 tons released at shooting ranges.</p><p> "There are safe, available alternatives to lead ammo for all hunting and shooting sports, so there's no reasoning for this poisoning to go on," Miller said.</p><p> </p><p> The 100 groups that signed the petition represent conservationists, scientists, zoologists, wildlife rehabilitators, birders, American Indians, veterinarians, even some hunters. Several Washington state groups have joined the cause, including the Rainier Audubon Society in Auburn, the Kittitas Audubon Society in Ellensburg, the Lands Council in Spokane and the Loon Lake Loon Association in Loon Lake.</p><p> The EPA rejected a similar request from environmental groups in 2010, saying it lacked the authority due to an exemption for ammunition approved by Congress when it passed the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976. And opponents of the proposed ban predict that they'll win again this year.</p><p> "We believe that the EPA will appropriately deny the petition yet again," said Lawrence Keane, senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, adding that the issue of regulating lead in ammunition is "not in their sandbox" and is best left to wildlife professionals in state agencies and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.</p><p> "The industry's position is that wildlife management decisions should be based on sound science," Keane said. "Wildlife biology is based on managing populations, not to prevent harm to individual animals. If wildlife management becomes about preventing harm to individual animals, you will then just have made the argument to ban hunting."</p><p> Hastings said it makes more sense to leave the issue to state agencies that better understand local conditions. And he said that since there's no credible evidence that species are threatened at the national level because of exposure to ammunition, a national ban would be counterproductive.</p><p> Anticipating another showdown with environmental groups, the House Natural Resources Committee approved a bill on Feb. 29 that would block the EPA from acting on the petition. Keane said the legislation, which has 164 co-sponsors, confirms the agency's role and creates an exemption for fishing tackle, as well.</p><p> Similar legislation, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, is pending in the Senate. It has attracted 27 cosponsors. Neither of Washington state's Democratic senators have signed on, and spokesmen for Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell declined to say this week whether the senators back the bill.</p><p> In Washington state, Jordan, who heads a group called the Washington Swan Stewards, is happy that many hunters are choosing to buy non-toxic ammunition and some farmers are insisting that hunters use it if they hunt on their land. In addition, the Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission bans the use of lead ammunition for all upland game hunting on the state's pheasant release sites.</p><p> According to the petition filed with the EPA, more than 2,500 trumpeter and tundra swans died after ingesting lead shot at Judson Lake, from 1999 to 2008. While the death rate has slowed in recent years, Jordan said at least 125 deaths were recorded in each of the past two years.</p><p> After gathering up the dead swans, Jordan performs necropsies. She recalled having 236 of the birds at one "necropsy event."</p><p> "Being in a room with 236 dead swans, 70 percent of which died of lead poisoning as it turned out, is a stinky, smelly, horrid process," she said. "I weighed them: We had 4,000 pounds of dead swan. That number is rather startling to people and, you know, that's what I live with. ... We need to be using non-toxic ammunition, because the cost to society to do otherwise is enormous."Source: Kansas City Star
Getting Out on the Water; Sailors & Dolphins
. . . . You’re right. I’ve called to schedule a lesson in what scares me the most, deep-sea swimming — required before they’ll let me out in deep waters with the sea kayak. I’m afraid of deep waters. I have a huge, unbounded respect for the power of waves, water, currents, storms. Besides, just me and . . . who knows? Even if out of the water, still just barely, on top of a little wobbly piece of fiberglass. Wielding a long aluminum pole with paddles on each end like the one I used when Rick stuck me in an inflatable kayak on a mountain river with rapids and then took off, no lesson no nothing, so there I went, zipping along, flopping along, spinning around, cutting through water, catching on boulders, pushing off, too fast to think but so angry at him for leaving me behind that my adrenalin guided the pole and I came to the haul-out place much later, full of bravado, declaring: “I didn’t need you. Why, if I wasn’t so hungry, I’d just go do that some more.”
This time, way out in Gulf waters, it will all be much bigger and I will be less consequential. For there will be giant ships going past, and large sea creatures acting territorial, and the chop of waves provoked by motorboats. I can’t figure out why I want to do this. Just to prove that I can? Just to get out of this room where I sit and breathe the wetness? I’ve actually been out twice this month. Once with a maniac scientist on one of those sideless Boston Whalers in the wet winds of early morning marine layer, full throttle across the chops, and i grimly braced, determined that he would not have the satisfaction of catapulting me into polluted waters. And then once with a maniac ex Recon Marine. He took me out in his inflated rubber Zodiac, kept it easy, we went along in the nearshore waters, peaceful as could be with the sea birds bobbling and colorful invertebrate creatures floating just out of reach. He told me about one of his buddies who’d been drowned in a helo accident out near San Diego about the same time the dead whale beached after giving birth with the Russian harpoon buried deep inside her, carried along with the fetus all the way from the Arctic circle, months without food. He and I were both kind of quiet, attentive to the life around us, carrying-on.
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Water rescue team preps for summer Wetumpka Herald - Dec 31, 1969
Tallassee Volunteer Fire Department personnel pose with water rescue equipment, including a Zodiac inflatable boat. Left to right, Jonathan Stuckey, Troy Mann, Matt Kosier, Raymond LaPointe. One of the most unique facets of service with the Tallassee
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Trash to the rescue Calgary Sun - Dec 31, 1969
“We had all the safety gear on board but we had no time to grab anything — we left the boat with not even a Bic lighter or anything.” The group managed to free a small Zodiac inflatable raft that was strapped to the top of the Pacific Siren and
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Five people dead, 15 missing in boat wreck off Mayotte Pakistan Daily Times - Dec 31, 1969
PARIS: Two adults and three children died while 15 people were missing after a boat sank off the French overseas department of Mayotte, the government said Sunday. The fishing boat was carrying 43 people from the nearby independent nation of the
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Retired RCMP sergeant launches new police boat Canada.com - Dec 31, 1969
Kirby Anderson launched the vessel, an old Coast Guard Zodiac, from the Brechin Point boat ramp for the first time Friday and puttered around Newcastle Island Passage. Anderson, formerly a sergeant with the Nanaimo detachment, just retired from the
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Lake Stevens couple aid in rescue after boat accident HeraldNet - Dec 31, 1969
The Lake Stevens couple, Brent and Sarah Schilling, had been rounding the north end of Jetty Island in their inflatable Zodiac boat when they heard a man calling for help in the water, they said. They pulled the man aboard just before 1:30 pm,
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