A rubber dinghy refers to a small inflatable boat made of rubber material, often used for floating or navigating on water.
Sentences with «rubber dinghy»
And although states acknowledged that the text of this resolution — namely to search, seize and dispose of vessels used in smuggling or trafficking crimes — addresses only a small part of the crisis confronting Europe today, Resolution 2240 forgets that the people floating on rubber dinghies off the coast of Libya are typically not criminals. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
In one of the most harrowing stories of shipwreck and survival in recent memory, a young Deborah Kiley (she's now 49) escaped dehydration, hypothermia, and sharks for five days on a small rubber dinghy in the Atlantic Ocean. (discovermagazine.com)
More than 5,000 migrants, many escaping civil war in Syria, have died over the past 18 months while trying to cross from North Africa, often on flimsy rubber dinghies or crowded fishing boats. (businessinsider.com)