Before the battle he had two
pontoon bridges built across the River Severn and River Teme, where they meet, near Powick.
Caption:
Pontoon bridge system functioning as a ferry
"We took the all-weather boat alongside the yacht, which was badly damaged after it had hit the
pontoon bridge by the marina.
As Iraqi insurgents were well aware, in order to negotiate a
pontoon bridge en route the boats would have to move in right next to the riverbank, rendering them vulnerable to a bomb attack.
When they came to the Red Sea, Moses had his engineers build a
pontoon bridge, and they all got across safely.
After the fighting, Sgt Mark Richardson, 35, of Throckley, led a corps of drums over a
pontoon bridge his battle unit built as part of its opening ceremony.
In Novi Sad, where NATO planes destroyed bridges in 1999, river traffic was blocked for three weeks because water levels had fallen so low that Serbian authorities were no longer able to open a temporary
pontoon bridge. Further up the river, even the Budapest to Vienna hydrofoil service had to switch to smaller vessels, for fear of grounding out in the shallows.
This
pontoon bridge, which folds against the shore to permit seagoing traffic, has been a Curacao landmark since the 19th century, and is still a vital part of the island's commercial structure.
Offshore, a
pontoon bridge runs parallel with the expopark, offering good views back towards Neuchatel and connecting with the main architectural event: Groupe Multipack's manmade island surrounded by artificial reed beds.
Thus the crowd in these photographs is always channeled into a geometry--a
pontoon bridge, an extremely dense and squared-off tent city--that collides with the sense of the infinite aroused by the number of believers and by the extremely deep field in which the throng disappears from view.