Storms are frequent around the lake and a wave can easily overturn the typically flimsy fishing boats.
Sharks stalk his flimsy fishing vessel, he is swept overboard and marooned on an even smaller island; for a moment, it seems as if he witnesses headhunters doing their worst, fulfilling his fears about the trip.
Those undertaking the hazardous voyage from Indonesia, often in flimsy wooden fishing boats, were intercepted by the Australian Navy and transported to remote and desolate Nauru or to Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, where they were detained while their asylum claims were processed.
The most memorable image has haunted me ever since: an attractive harbour scarred by piles of flimsy wooden fishing boats, many of them wrecked by the cruel sea as desperate migrants tried to get to Europe from Tunisia and Libya, just 70 miles away.
Neighboring countries turned away flimsy, overcrowded Vietnamese fishing vessels; the Thai government refused to recognize the Cambodians as refugees, while its military pushed many back across the border into minefields; and Western governments preferred to send aid rather than provide rescue.
Iceland guesses that its minke whales eat about 2m tonnes of marine "biomass" a year a bit more than its fishermen catch and wants to know how much of that is, for instance, cod.Sceptics sniff profitsAnti-whalers say this is a flimsy cover for commercial fishing interests, buttressing the Greenpeace line about the imminent return of large-scale commercial whaling.
From its marketing video we admire the view from a clapped-out fishing boat, flimsy and worn under the Tower's gleaming magnificence the producers' best way to scream, "Look how far we've come!" without plastering it across the screen in size 42 glitter text.
And while the sole "in a bowl" (a special) was fresh, the fish, which has flimsy flesh to begin with, was soft enough to slurp.
That is just a flimsy fig leaf.
The migrants are piled onto flimsy rubber boats or old fishing vessels which can toss their occupants into the sea in a matter of seconds.
