Sentence examples for rafts sank from inspiring English sources

The other 28 persons on board the aircraft were lost when their rafts sank in heavy seas.

The raft sank, and all four passengers drowned.

Survivors told Mexican media that their home-made raft sank as it hit the reefs surrounding Isla Mujeres on Friday morning.

During her freshman seminar last spring, Hosler says, she told her students, Somebody tried to build one of these rafts, but it sank.

As the Japanese vessel sank, life rafts were deployed and 26 of the people on board were rescued, Navy officials in Hawaii said.

An attempt to replicate a bluestone float failed spectacularly in 2000, however, when a raft carrying a stone sank close to shore.

The woman said that Mexican authorities sank the raft leaving the migrants to sink or swim.

Generally, the Coast Guard sinks rafts after rescuing the refugees, although Howe said the high number of rescues in recent days has made that task impossible in some cases.

Most of the people on board were below decks, but the survivors managed to get into life rafts as the ship quickly sank.

It never froze in place — though I once knew a kid, a wild funny Girl who built a raft from branches (Which promptly sank a few feet out From the elbow bend off Dayton's Bluff), Who made it seem easy to believe.

Five fishermen have been rescued from a life raft after their fishing boat sank in gale force winds off the Isles of Scilly.