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• n  skill in the management of boats
• n  a craft designed for water transportation

• Some two dozen other journalists in expensively chartered watercraft also flopped.
• Riders of "personal watercraft" are far more likely to get hurt than conventional pleasure boaters, and a report issued last week helps explain why.
• Sometimes dead watercraft foster the growth of new sea life that threatens the pre-existing local ecosystem.

• vessel

News & Articles

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• One person missing after personal watercraft flips in Sacramento River
  One person is missing this evening after a personal watercraft flipped in the Sacramento River in Anderson.
  June 17, 2013 - The Record Searchlight
• Mom, daughter injured in watercraft accident
  A mother and her daughter were rescued Saturday after a watercraft incident in the intracoastal off Sand Key, officials said.
  June 15, 2013 - WTSP-TV Tampa
• Watercraft Stolen In Hartford Burglary
  Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Hartford Facebook Page A personal watercraft was stolen from the New England Cycle Center on Leibert Road after 2 a.m. on Tuesday, police said.        
  June 11, 2013 - Hartford Courant

Quotes

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• Joe Biden in NavyTimes.com
  We've learned that drug dealers are using submarine-like watercraft to traffic drugs under water, more easily evading detection and delivering drugs up to 3,500 miles away,said Biden - chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on crime...
• James Cason in Daily Journal (subscription)
  Cubans who don't have a choice to leave legally are risking their lives, in the greatest numbers we have seen since 1994, on dangerously inadequate watercraft,Cason said.
• Lynn Faulds Wood in BBC News
  My office will work with the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation and user groups to identify a more fair and equitable way of addressing such recreational watercraft costs as facilities maintenance, rescue operations, rules compliance, parking... Butch Otter http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Otter&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEPyVA11QVozSIZDiDpGQJ7RwQoJA Twin Falls Times-News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/03/29/ap-state-id/d8o67i6o1.txt&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG5R8p7TLyc4JZ9HomS_fB_cfmigQ Mar 29, 2007 109114 143193 watercress Lynn Faulds Wood, the former BBC Watchdog presenter who set up Lynn's Bowel Cancer Campaign after successfully fighting bowel cancer, said: It's great to know there are simple things that people can do - like eating watercress - which could help...