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An aquascope (also called bathyscope) is an underwater viewing device. It is used to view the underwater world often from dry land or a boat. It eliminates the water surface glare and allows viewing as far as water clarity and light permit. The underwater viewer can be used for observing reefs, checking boat moorings, secchi disks and other ...
Boat terminologies were used for ranks, place names, and even personal names, even in island interiors. [13] [22] Among the Sama-Bajau people of the southern Philippines, various types of bangka like the djenging and the lepa served as houseboats of nuclear families and often sail together in clan flotillas. [24]
"Research Guides: Philippines: Philippine Boats & Navigation". University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library. Archived from the original on February 15, 2017
A basnig boat: a bangka equipped with lift nets. Commercial fishing boats are defined through the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998 (RA 8550), [1] which defines fishing scale by boat size: 3.1 to 20 gross tonnes as small-scale, 20.1 to 150 gross tonnes as medium-scale, and anything larger as large-scale. [2]
Patrol boats: PB-338 [33] PB-339 [34] Former US Navy Swift Mk.3 fast patrol crafts. Some units were transferred to Philippine Coast Guard (PCG). [35] PB-353 physically restored and converted to museum display at the re-launched Philippine Navy Museum. Type 966Y China: Patrol boats: PB-356 PB-357 PB-358 PB-359
The number of Chinese boats believed to be manned by militia personnel has increased to more than 135 from 111 in November, scattered within the Whitsun Reef, which Manila calls the Julian Felipe ...
Territorial waters and exclusive economic zone of the Philippines. The Philippines is an archipelagic state whose over 7,000 islands [1] with their large coastal population [2]: 2 are surrounded by waters including 2,263,816 square kilometres (874,064 sq mi) of exclusive economic zone and 679,800 square kilometres (262,500 sq mi) of territorial sea, [3]: 1 of which 184,600 square kilometres ...
Officials also said a sailor was washed overboard on another boat, but was rescued. ... Centennial 7 was one of six international entrants and includes sailors from the Philippines’ national ...