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Europe. Royal National Lifeboat Institution (Ireland and the United Kingdom) Société Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer (France) German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (Germany) Norsk Selskab til Skibbrudnes Redning (Norway, also called Redningsselskapet) Elsewhere. International Life Saving Federation
Floating island La Rota in Posta Fibreno lake, Italy. Natural floating islands are composed of vegetation growing on a buoyant mat of plant roots or other organic detritus. In aquatic regions of Northwestern Europe, several hundred hectares or a couple thousand acres of floating meadows (German Schwingrasen, Dutch trilveen) have been preserved, which are partly used as agricultural land ...
Wales & Edwards was a British manufacturer of milk floats based in Harlescott, Shrewsbury.They were particularly well known for their three wheelers.It was one of the oldest milk float manufacturers lasting from the early 1940s to the early 1990s.
The fauna of the Baltic Sea is a mixture of marine and freshwater species. Among marine fishes are Atlantic cod, Atlantic herring, European hake, European plaice, European flounder, shorthorn sculpin and turbot, and examples of freshwater species include European perch, northern pike, whitefish and common roach. Freshwater species may occur at ...
The articles listed below on specific bodies of water—seas, lakes, rivers, etc.—have significant content on the subject of fly fishing for the fish that swim in them or are notable fly fishing destinations in Europe.
Personal flotation devices being worn on a navy transport . A personal flotation device (PFD; also referred to as a life jacket, life preserver, life belt, Mae West, life vest, life saver, cork jacket, buoyancy aid or flotation suit) is a flotation device in the form of a vest or suit that is worn by a user to prevent the wearer from drowning in a body of water.
Adding fruits and vegetables to home-cooked meals can significantly enhance mental well-being, Sheth says, with research showing four to six daily servings are linked to greater happiness and life ...
Lignum vitae is hard and durable, and is also the densest wood traded (average dried density: ~79 lb/ft 3 or ~1,260 kg/m 3); [4] it will easily sink in water. On the Janka scale of hardness, which measures hardness of woods, lignum vitae ranks highest of the trade woods, with a Janka hardness of 4,390 lbf (compared with Olneya at 3,260 lbf, [5] African blackwood at 2,940 lbf, hickory at 1,820 ...