Much of that was funneled into the protective-packaging segment, which includes Bubble Wrap, Jiffy mailers, Instapak foam cushioning and Fill-Air inflatable packs.
The ice lingering on Miles Lake was too soft to walk on and too hard to paddle through," says Skurka, who scooted across in his one-person inflatable pack raft.
Some are basically just inflatable rafts packed to the brim with people," Boian said.
On Monday, allied warships thwarted an effort by Qaddafi loyalists to use small inflatable boats packed with high explosives to threaten ships carrying relief supplies to the contested port city of Misurata, 130 miles east of Tripoli, the capital.
In the past three weeks, Libyan vessels had mined the harbor in the contested port city of Misurata, and twice sent out small inflatable boats packed with high explosives in apparent efforts to attack allied warships.
Dr. Loftin and her students spent five years finding fishless lakes the hard way: poring over topographical maps, following hunches, and packing inflatable rafts and gill nets high into the mountains and far into the backwoods.
Prepare the inflatable pad for packing.
They flew to Istanbul then rode down to Izmir, found a smuggler, paid over $1000 each and embarked at dusk on a packed inflatable 6m boat to the island of Lesbos in Greece.
And so, every day, MacInnes makes phone calls and arranges meetings, packs up the £900 inflatable, drives somewhere, inflates it, deflates it and drives home.
The migrants and refugees land at all hours, packed into inflatable boats that should hold 15, according to the manufacturer's instructions stamped clearly on the side of boats.
So, if you are booked on one of the first flights to Mars, remember to pack (giant inflatable) doughnuts.
