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  2. Inuit navigation - Wikipedia

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    Iñupiat man in a kayak, Noatak, Alaska, c. 1929 (photo by Edward S. Curtis) In summer the Inuit hunted sea animals from single-passenger, covered seal-skin boats called qajaq [8] (Inuktitut syllabics: ᖃᔭᖅ) which were extraordinarily buoyant, and could easily be righted by a seated person, even if completely overturned.

  3. Sea anchor - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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    Skin boats dominated seafaring in places that were scarce on wood, including the arctic and subarctic. They were made by stretching skin or leather over frames of wood or bone. These include kayaks and umiaks, coracles and currachs.

  5. Andrew McAuley - Wikipedia

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    The sleeping arrangements at sea involved deploying a drift anchor, [8] squeezing his body down into the kayak, and sealing the hatch with a bulbous fibreglass capsule (dubbed "Casper") fitted with an air-only ventilator, [9] which, with its self-righting capabilities, made possible riding out the most severe storm conditions that are inevitable in that part of the ocean.

  6. Canoe and kayak diving - Wikipedia

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    Canoe diving and Kayak diving are recreational diving where the divers paddle to a diving site in a canoe or kayak carrying all their gear in or on the boat to the place they want to dive. Canoe or kayak diving gives the diver independence from dive boat operators, while allowing dives at sites which are too far to comfortably swim, but are ...

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  8. Kamal (navigation) - Wikipedia

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    A simple wooden kamal. A kamal, often called simply khashaba (wood in Arabic), [1] is a celestial navigation device that determines latitude.The invention of the kamal allowed for the earliest known latitude sailing, [2] and was thus the earliest step towards the use of quantitative methods in navigation. [3]

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