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Drying Nets or Fishermen Spreading Their Nets is an 1872 oil-on-canvas painting by Alfred Sisley, now in the Kimbell Art Museum. The painting shows a scene near the village of Villeneuve-la-Garenne .
A wide variety of man-made objects can become marine debris; plastic bags, balloons, buoys, rope, medical waste, glass and plastic bottles, cigarette stubs, cigarette lighters, beverage cans, polystyrene, lost fishing line and nets, and various wastes from cruise ships and oil rigs are among the items commonly found to have washed ashore.
A Japanese glass fishing float. Glass floats were used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.. Large groups of fishnets strung together, sometimes 50 miles (80 km) long, were set adrift in the ocean and supported near the surface by hollow glass balls or cylinders containing air to give them buoyancy.
The images of the people are dark and the subject of the painting is a huddled group carrying a dead fisherman away from the water's edge. The sky in the image is lighted and muted blue and silver. [1] It is considered to be Funerary art and it is also a representation of self-sacrifice. [3] The painting is an example of the style of realism. [4]
This is the heartwarming moment fishermen cut loose a turtle that was tangled in a loose net. Anucha Boontaeng, 42, noticed the turtle struggling as it floated in loose nets in the Andaman sea ...
The USS Virginia's propellors got tangled in fishing nets off Norway, with a coast-guard vessel helping to cut it loose, local reports say. A Norwegian fisherman accidentally caught a US submarine ...
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