US Navy SEALs train with a modified go-fast boat during a training exercise in Mississippi

Many modern kayaks have modified the traditional design in various ways, such as: eliminating the cockpit by seating the paddler on top of the boat (" sit-on-top " kayaks ); having inflated air chambers surrounding the boat ; replacing the single hull by twin hulls (" W " kayak ), and replacing paddles with other human powered propulsion methods, such as foot-powered rotational propellers and ' flippers '.

The men arrive to find their boat, the S-33, modified to resemble a German U-boat.

The first launch from a submarine occurred in July 1953 from the deck of USS Tunny, a World War II fleet boat modified to carry Regulus.

On the Sicilian island of Lipari, The St. Joseph legend is modified somewhat, and says that sailors returning from the mainland encountered a fierce storm that threatened to sink their boat.

It was a four-engined floatplane " Mercury " ( the winged messenger ) fixed on top of " Maia ", a heavily modified Short Empire flying boat.

* Nine Cuban migrants attempt to reach Florida in a modified 1959 Buick that was converted to a boat.

In the 15 April 2009 episode of Mythbusters, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage built a small boat out of a modified formulation of Pykrete ( using newspaper instead of wood pulp ).

* 3d Emergency Rescue Squadron ( July 1947-April 1950 ) ( SB-17G ) Flew modified B-17G bombers equipped under their bellies with a 27-foot boat ( termed the A-1 ) that could be dropped by parachute and which contained enough food, water, and clothing for twelve survivors to last for about twenty days in the ocean.

This was further modified over the following years, led by boat builders Alistair Duffin, who builds in wood, and Holt Allen ( later Speed Sails Ltd and now Winder Boats ), who manufacture in GRP ( glass-reinforced plastic ) and FRP.

In the 16th century, when Spain ruled the Netherlands, the lateen rigs were introduced to Dutch boat builders, who soon modified the design by omitting the mast and fastening the lower end of the yard directly to the deck, the yard becoming a raked mast with a full-length, triangular ( leg-of-mutton ) mainsail aft.

He modified a steam-powered boat Civetta by 1829 and test-drove it in the Trieste harbor at six knots before the steam conduits exploded.

Rose then modified the boat, including the addition of a mizzenmast, to sail single-handed around the world.

A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily as a human dwelling.

The boat during prohibition was modified into a speedboat but there are still some builders making traditional boats in fiberglass.

Only one boat had a sail number issued twice as in the case of RUS-62 which was a new boat based on the heavily modified hull of RUS-24 and re-registered as RUS-62.

It is a race boat configuration with a long, very sleek, high performance " modified V " hull.

* Motoscafo da turismo modificato ( Italian for " modified tourism motorboat "), a small motor assault boat weighing 2 tons, which was used by Italy in World War II: see Decima Flottiglia MAS # 1941

That is to say Gabriel's fundamental law had been so much modified by this time that it was neither fundamental nor law any more.

Using a steering system that controlled the modified rocket's tail surfaces and wings equipped with ailerons, Fiedler was to land the missile on a skid especially bolted under the fuselage.

In Greece, the script was modified to add the vowels, giving rise to the ancestor of all alphabets in the West.

When it was decided that Asteroids would be a vector game as well, Delman modified a Lunar Lander circuit board for Ed Logg.

' Gelignite ', or blasting gelatin, as it was named, was patented in 1876 ; and was followed by a host of similar combinations, modified by the addition of potassium nitrate and various other substances.

The phonetic structure of the Greek language created too many ambiguities when the vowels went unrepresented, so the script was modified.

This means that even facilities that have not been modified or altered in any way after the ADA was passed still have obligations.

A modified infrageneric classification of Amaranthus was published by Mosyakin & Robertson ( 1996 ) and includes three subgenera: Acnida, Amaranthus, and Albersia.

The first one was the fact that queen Isabel II was a woman, and her father, king Ferdinand VII, had modified the Succession Law in order for her to be queen, excluding his brother Carlos.

It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides ; the most detailed accounts are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system.

Version 4. 1, in a slightly modified form, was also the standard operating system for the Apple Network Server systems sold by Apple Computer to complement the Macintosh line.

It also was responsible for switching to ROM BASIC when the system was turned on with the break key pressed, and later supported a primitive LAN system, using the RS232 port with modified cabling.

The color memory was also available in the " normal " TRS-80 and CP / M text modes, which meant that existing TRS-80 and CP / M software could be easily modified to add color.

The test is unstable ( i. e. the crack propagates along the entire specimen once a critical load is attained ) and a modified version of this test characterised by a non constant inertia was proposed called the tapered double cantilever beam ( TDCB ) specimen.

After the death of his master the school of Syria was dispersed, and Aedesius seems to have modified his doctrines out of fear of Constantine, and took refuge in divination.

The three cup anemometer was further modified by the Australian Derek Weston in 1991 to measure both wind direction and wind speed.

It was fabricated by AMD in a slightly modified version of their CS44E process, a 0. 25 µm complementary metal – oxide – semiconductor ( CMOS ) process with six levels of aluminium interconnect.

The Atari 8-bit family had their own Atari BASIC that was modified in order to fit on an 8 kB ROM cartridge.

Because less defensive emphasis was placed on the use of the forearms and more on the gloves, the classical forearms outwards, torso leaning back stance of the bare knuckle boxer was modified to a more modern stance in which the torso is tilted forward and the hands are held closer to the face.

No special actions need to be taken, and the tree's structure is not modified by lookups.

Saint Sava began the work on the Serbian Nomocanon in 1208 while being at Mount Athos, using The Nomocanon in Fourteen Titles, Synopsis of Stefan the Efesian, Nomocanon of John Scholasticus, Ecumenical Councils ' documents, which he modified with the canonical commentaries of Aristinos and John Zonaras, local church meetings, rules of the Holy Fathers, the law of Moses, translation of Prohiron and the Byzantine emperors ' Novellae ( most were taken from Justinian's Novellae ).

He was taken care of by his wife, Grace Hubble, and continued on a modified diet and work schedule.

The regulation of genetic engineering concerns the approaches taken by governments to assess and manage the risks associated with the use of genetic engineering technology and the development and release of genetically modified organisms ( GMO ), including genetically modified crops and genetically modified fish.

* Radius series – discontinued, a modified version is now taken over by the Joe Satriani signature series which features a multi-radius neck.

In addition to these changes, the Pope noted that his revision considerably modified other sections of the Missal, such as the Proper of Seasons, the Proper of Saints, the Common of Saints, the Ritual Masses and the Votive Masses, adding: " In all of these changes, particular care has been taken with the prayers: not only has their number been increased, so that the new texts might better correspond to new needs, but also their text has been restored on the testimony of the most ancient evidences.

The first images of Earth taken from space followed the same year while the first animal experiment saw fruit flies lifted into space in 1947, both also on modified V-2s launched by Americans.

Since DNA ( deoxyribonucleic acid ) can be modified only before birth, a mutation must have taken place at conception or within an egg such that an animal similar to a chicken, but not a chicken, laid the first chicken eggs.

The C10 turned over on take-off at the airfield in Yate and was taken to Hamble for repair at which time it was modified to incorporate an engine-driven rotor-starting device.

The network has been modified several times through franchise reviews that have taken place in 1963, 1967, 1974, 1980 and 1991, during which broadcast regions have changed and service operators have been replaced.

In English, proper names in their primary application cannot normally be modified by an article or other determiner ( such as any or another ), although some may be taken to include the article the, as in The Gambia, The Roaring Forties, or the Rolling Stones.

If a " From " string occurs at the beginning of a line in either the headers or the body of a message ( unlikely for the former for correctly formatted messages, but likely for the latter ), the e-mail message must be modified before the message is stored in an mbox mailbox file or the line will be taken as a message boundary.

This image of the crown was taken prior to the 1953 coronation, when the crown was modified for Queen Elizabeth II

Almost all of the still photographs taken during these missions used modified Hasselblad cameras.

Several different models of Hasselblad cameras were taken into space, all specially modified for the task.

( Rivera re-created the work later in Mexico City in modified form, from photos taken by an assistant, Lucienne Bloch.

The aircraft, four of the final production B. VIIs, had to be taken out of storage and specially modified by removing the mid-upper gun turrets to mimic 617 Squadron's special aircraft, and cost £ 130 per hour to run, which amounted to a tenth of the film's costs.

A specially modified Nikon FTn was also taken on the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon.

The border can be modified if the topography is taken for prefectural boundaries.

Other scholars expand their measurement of difference, considering religious movements new when, taken from their traditional cultural context, they appear in new places, perhaps in modified forms.

The DTs to be modified were taken from the assembly lines at the company's manufacturing plants in Rock Island, Illinois and Dayton, Ohio.

The regulation of genetic engineering concerns the approaches taken by governments to assess and manage the risks associated with the use of genetic engineering technology and the development and release of genetically modified organisms ( GMO ).