31. Residents were evacuated to safety by rescue workers patrolling through the night in inflatable boats. 32. Seven inflatable boats were sent to the area to be used in rescue operations. 33. Seconds later a rescue plane and a helicopter droned above as an inflatable boat from an Australian warship, HMAS Adelaide, drew up alongside. 34. Some were treated on the spot by park staff arriving aboard inflatable boats. 35. Seventeen demonstrators were arrested as they attempted to board inflatable boats at Nairn Harbor in the Moray Firth, an inlet adjacent to Cromarty Firth. 36. Television footage of Greenpeace protesters struggling in inflatable boats against Shell workers to try to stop the platform from being towed aroused great sympathy in Germany. 37. The inflatable boat bought from immigrant smugglers had carried the four men across the river from Turkey. 38. The Greenpeace inflatable boat was equipped with enough provisions for a month, as well as communications equipment, anti-radiation suits and distress flares. 39. The protesters arrived in inflatable boats when the rig was preparing to move to another location to continue its search for oil. 40. The spokeswoman said Bullimore was picked up on a rigid inflatable boat. |