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the late 1880s, Maria Beasley improved the design of life rafts. She patented a life-saving raft in both the United States and England in 1880. By the...

The great raft spider or fen raft spider (Dolomedes plantarius) is a European species of spider in the family Pisauridae. Like other Dolomedes spiders...

George Raft (born George Ranft; September 26, 1895 or 1901 – November 24, 1980) was an American film actor and dancer identified with portrayals of gangsters...

The raft spider, scientific name Dolomedes fimbriatus, is a large semi-aquatic spider of the family Pisauridae found throughout north-western and central...

mechanical difficulties and crashed into the ocean. After drifting at sea on a life raft for 47 days, with two other crewmates, Zamperini landed on the then Japanese...

The Carley float (sometimes Carley raft) was a form of invertible liferaft designed by American inventor Horace Carley (1838–1918). Supplied mainly to...

Sea is a 1986 memoir by Steven Callahan about his survival alone in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, which lasted 76 days. Callahan departed Newport...

escaped into a six-man Avon inflatable life raft, measuring about six feet (1.8 m) across. He stood off in the raft, but managed to get back aboard several...

hours in the water, Lim found and boarded a wooden life raft. In the distance he saw another raft, carrying four or five men, who waved to him to join...

ended in the 1990s because the administration considered it hazing. The Life Raft Debate is an annual event sponsored by the Philosophy Club. The debate...

Officer, Cook, Oiler (Motorman), Third Engineer, and a Cadet made it into a life raft, while several others including the Bosun jumped into the sea. The Chief...

emergency exits, particularly from the lower decks. Marchioness had seven life rafts—each of which could support twenty people—and seven lifebuoys—each of...

making a successful ditching, the survivors find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean. Even seeing a dive bomber from their carrier...

The Raft of the Medusa (French: Le Radeau de la Méduse [lə ʁado d(ə) la medyz]) – originally titled Scène de Naufrage (Shipwreck Scene) – is an oil painting...

were never found. A few fuel drums, a fuel tank, the EPIRB, an empty life raft, and some other flotsam were the only wreckage ever discovered. Junger...

George Raft Story is a 1961 American biographical film directed by Joseph M. Newman that stars Ray Danton as Hollywood film star George Raft. The picture...

mask appears out of the white void, before the white turns to black. The life raft comes to rest on a mysterious planet. A new Thor is shown joining the...

inventions in the United States: these included a footwarmer, an improved life raft, and an anti-derailment device for trains; however, her primary success...

feet below the surface of the life raft buoy, which is five feet below the water. After the last buoy is pulled, the life raft immediately inflates above...

Channel and the streaming service Discovery+. The series follows a fisherman's life on the Bering Sea aboard various crab fishing boats during two of the crab...