Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Parasailing, also known as parascending, is an activity where individuals are harnessed to a modified parachute canopy that is designed to ascend into the air when towed behind a motor vehicle on land, or a recreational boat over water.
A marine parachute anchor for a large yacht awaiting bagging up. A conical sea anchor with tripline (from an illustration in The Sailors Handbook by Halsey C. Herreshoff). An early wooden drogue. A sea anchor (also known as a parachute anchor, drift anchor, drift sock, para-anchor or boat brake) is a device that is streamed from a boat in heavy ...
As the platoon expanded, it was reorganised into a full company on 1 July 2008, and its designation was officially changed to Pathfinder Company (Parachute). [5] The Pandura Company's capabilities have continued to grow, with a significant extension of its skill set on 11 August 2021. The unit was trained to parachute into the sea, swim to ...
AOL latest headlines, entertainment, sports, articles for business, health and world news.
Combat training; underwater explosives; parachute team. December 19, 1999 61 "Killer Creatures" Meeting the most dangerous animals on the planet including Komodo dragons and polar bears. December 26, 1999 62 "Real Life Science Fiction" Vanessa helps put together the comic book Spawn. January 2, 2000 63 "Our Greatest Hits IV" More of the best ...
The Paras is a 1983 BBC TV documentary series about British Parachute Regiment recruits of 480 (Training) Platoon undertaking their basic training at the Depot of the Parachute Regiment (Depot Para) at Aldershot Garrison between January and June 1982. The series was broadcast on BBC1 in March and April 1983. It was later repeated in 1984, with ...
Secret of Cerulean Sand (パタパタ飛行船の冒険, Patapata Hikōsen no Bōken) is a 26-episode anime television series. The main character is a 15-year-old English girl named Jane Buxton, who dreams of building a flying machine due to the influence of her brother.
A California man who was ordered to keep his boat out of sight has had the last laugh, by commissioning an artist to paint a realistic image of it on the fence that obscures it.