dinghy
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Meanwhile, 13 children were aboard the overcrowded dinghy piloted by Yuk two days earlier - some of whom were not wearing life jackets.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Omar Heidari, a 34-year-old Afghan national who steered a dinghy carrying 95 people to the UK in June, has been jailed for two years.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The Sun leads with reports of a "dinghy flotilla in Channel", writing that the boats carried "up to 1,000 migrants headed for Britain".
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
Chinese dissident Dong Guangping reached South Korea in a rubber dinghy after a 30-hour journey, facing immigration charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The dinghy was much closer: the man was rowing fast.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
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That number is less than the so-called mega dinghies seen this summer but matches recent averages as well as the general trend of rising passenger numbers.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Oxford's Migration Observatory, external believes the emergence of these mega dinghies is likely connected to increased enforcement, as there is an "additional incentive for smugglers to fit as many people as possible into available boats".
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The migrants were loaded into rubber dinghies, he says, and rowed halfway across the river.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2026
Yet Iran primarily sets mines using frogmen on small boats that resemble ordinary fishing vessels, an informal maritime militia of dinghies that is virtually impossible to identify and eliminate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Navy destroyer and two coast guard cutters had taken up positions among the usual flotilla of yachts, sailboats, launches, dinghies, and canoes assembling near the finish line.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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