On 7 August, a fleet of Sasanian rafts ferrying troops across the Bosphorus was surrounded and destroyed by Byzantine ships.
We stood on a cliff and watched young volunteers playfully race a raft between ferry runs, tossing up wide wakes.
It ends dramatically in a half-built bridge hanging over a river in the village of Lamno, where local residents operate a huge raft to ferry vehicles from one shore to the other.
Steve Welch, general manager of Groveland-based American River Touring Assn., a nonprofit that charters white-water trips, dispatched employees down that road in August with inflatable rafts to ferry firefighters across the river as the blaze raged.
The launch approached the shore and then executed a neat, sharp turn that swung the towrope and the ferry raft at its end into an unfurling arc that ended with the front of the raft wedged against the shore.
To reach Palo de Agua and its approximately 1,200 inhabitants, you have to cross the river on a ferry raft built with support from the Diocese of Montería to facilitate access to the community.
The beasts were then put on board this raft and were ferried across without knowing that they were moving on the water.
At Hajlah they had more success and a raft was constructed to ferry men and materials across.
The plan was to drop anchor about half a mile from the shore and then transfer the vehicles onto flat decked ferry type rafts, called Rhinos, which would deliver us into the shallow waters.
CAPITALIZING on "Titanic" fever, New York magazine disclosed that there are not nearly enough lifeboats and rafts on the ferries should any of them start to sink.
