For a decade, the boat functioned variously as a publicity platform, a sex venue, a crash pad, an underwater hideout, a potential round-the-world record breaker and — according to the prosecution — a film set.
These are privately-owned vessels whose owners choose to make them available for charter to keep the boat functioning and the crew happy, and defray the costs associated with such an enormous investment.
Retention of small habitat patches can provide a life-boat function for some red-listed species, but the long term survival of these populations is uncertain.
As of 2010, jet boats, functioning mainly as excursion craft, still deliver mail between Gold Beach and Agness.
Hundreds more are believed to have died after being pushed back out into the Indian Ocean in boats without functioning engines.
Swarms, migrants, boat people; the function of this language is to naturalise the situation of the men and women who are risking their lives to come to the UK.
Hundreds of these huge, adorable, shiny brown creatures have taken up residence on a pier that was once a functioning boat marina.
I was recently in a town where there were 20 tanks but only one ambulance which could only operate six months of the year because in the other six months, it rains too much for the ambulance to move and there were no boats that could function as ambulances.
It cannot be overstated that before you begin, have an experienced sailor show you the standing and running rigging on your boat and their functions.
In the expanse of western Libya, where most migrant missions begin, the Libyan coastguard has just three functioning boats.
It also means even less sleep in an institution that already insists against all evidence that it can teach students to function on a boat under sleep-deprived conditions by depriving them of sleep for their four years of college -- and then punishing them for "unprofessional" behavior when they nod off in class.
