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boat deck

[′bōt ‚dek]

(naval architecture)

The deck on a ship that usually is used to stow lifeboats.

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He developed the brace after fishing last year with an amputee who couldn't see a weed bed to fish because he had to sit on the boat deck instead of the pedestal seat.

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He shows, for example, that there could not have been an anarchic rush to board the last lifeboats, because the vast majority of third-class passengers did not reach the boat deck until after all the lifeboats had been launched.

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The 40-acre island is mostly pristine forest, with a lodge, cabins, outbuildings and boat deck. Wildlife such as deer and marine mammals are present, along with interesting botanical specimens.

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Everything was OK as the Sailors manned the port boat deck to lower a RHIB for transporting one of the ship's visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS) teams to the vessel on the port bow.

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Twice, waves knocked him from the boat deck. With no life jacket or harness, he had to swim his way back to safety or drown.

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A man in a faded gray raincoat and a flopping black felt hat that nearly concealed the gray hair that straggled over his ears stood on the boat deck of the steamship Rotterdam yesterday, timidly facing a battery of cameramen.

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But on the present 'dam' ships, it's actually what should be called the Boat Deck, because on these and other towering high-sided ships, the lifeboats are often set lower at former promenade-deck levels.

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Passengers in the more expensive rooms dine in the Queen's Grill on the boat deck, which has the best food.

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"For hours, he watched intently for birds while sitting on the aluminum boat deck with a wet coat in sub-zero weather.