The Cornish pilot gig was designed and built to ferry harbour and river pilots to and from ships in fierce coastal waters.

The pilots leave the plane to crash over the Himalayas, though the trio narrowly manage to escape on an inflatable boat and ride down the slopes into a raging river.

As traffic and trade on the river increased, so did the importance of river pilots who were knowledgeable about the complicated, ever-changing currents and sandbars in the river.

Boatmen and river men helped fuel Frenchtown's growth through their buying of cargo and food, and hiring of pilots.

There are lights on the Key Bridge, Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, Arlington Memorial Bridge, and the George Mason Memorial Bridge to aid pilots following the river.

It serves as a base for river pilots to guide ships across the bar and up and down the Mississippi River.

This was where river pilots came to live.

Gravesend " watermen " were often in a family trade ; and the town is the headquarters of the Port of London Authority Port Control Centre ( formerly known as " Thames Navigation Service "), supplying both river and sea pilots.

Gravesend " watermen " were often in a family trade ; and the town is the headquarters of the Port of London Authority Port Control Centre ( formerly known as Thames Navigation Service ), supplying both river and sea pilots.

River boat pilots were concerned that a swing span, which requires a center pivot pier, would leave too-narrow a navigation channel for the large ships that used this section of the river.

The competent harbour authority for the river from the Severn Road Bridges up to Sharpness is Gloucester Harbour Trustees-they are responsible for navigation aids in the channel and for the provision of pilots.

In its original configuration as a rounded dome with a fringe of evergreen on the crown, the bluff was well known to early explorers, traders, tourists, and river boat pilots.

They are chased by Jean Claude who pilots the Robosnail robot, Reptar's nemesis, until they fight on a bridge and Chuckie knocks Robosnail into the Seine river.

The river pilots were highly skilled seaman.

Although a double tow posed no problems for a competent pilot in good weather, many of the pilots were inexperienced and the route across the mountain ranges bordering the Chindwin river guaranteed a turbulent, unsettled flight.

The river, named after Blasco Gallegos, one of the pilots of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition of 1520, is popular for fly fishing for brown trout, principally by tourists.

Starting with the annexation of Tenasserim and Western Burma after the First Anglo-Burmese War, a steady stream of Indians moved to Burma as civil servants, engineers, river pilots, soldiers, indentured labourers and traders.

Louisville, Kentucky, and the associated Indiana communities — Jeffersonville, Clarksville, and New Albany — all owe their existence as communities to the falls, as the navigational obstacles the falls presented meant that late 18th Century and early to late 19th Century river traffic could benefit from local expertise in navigating the drop made by the river over a distance of two miles ( 3 km ).

On the left bank of the river, the hamlet of La Neuveville dates back further, having been established during the twelfth century with protection and support from Duke of Lorraine by the cannons of Étival Abbey who provided both the necessary land and the expertise.

Monat leads his fellow captives to a community of fugitives he is associated with, which is led by the aloof and cocky Samuel Clemens ( Cameron Daddo ) who has built a riverboat christened the Go For Broke, augmented by Monat's technological expertise, to explore the river.

He solicited donations of material from the copper mines of Zambia's Copperbelt, and employed local unskilled labor to construct the bridge, which despite Valeri's lack of training or expertise, proved sturdy and reliable and still spans the river.

Running from the west the river Amper runs south of Dachau ’ s old town, changes its direction at the former paper milling plant to the northeast and continues through Prittlbach into Hebertshausen.

Across cultures, and spanning continents and millennia, the history of painting is an ongoing river of creativity, that continues into the 21st century.

Beyond there the Euphrates continues to the Hindiya Barrage, which was constructed in 1914 to divert the river into the Hindiyah Channel ; the present day Shatt al Hillah had been the main channel of the Euphrates before 1914.

West of the 141 ° E line of longitude, the river continues as the Victoria – South Australia border for, this being the only stretch where a state border runs down the middle of the river.

In the Netherlands it continues northwards through Venlo closely along the border to Germany, then turns towards the west, where it runs parallel to the Waal river and forms part of the extensive Rhine – Meuse – Scheldt delta, together with the Scheldt river in its south and the Rhine river in the north.

From Salto del Guairá, where the river enters Paraguay, the Paraná River flows 800 km to its juncture with the Río Paraguay and then continues southward to the Río de la Plata Estuary at Buenos Aires, Argentina.

At Phnom Penh it merges with the Tonle Sap and divides into two branches-the Sông Hậu Giang ( Hau Giang river ) ( known as the Bassac River on the Cambodian side ) and the Sông Tiền Giang ( Tien Giang river )-and continues through Cambodia and the Mekong basin before draining into the South China Sea through nine mouths known as the Cửu Long ( nine dragons ).

" and continues "... but Terry and Julie cross over the river where they feel safe and sound ...".

Although upstream from the confluence Vltava is longer ( against ), has larger discharge and larger drainage basin, due to historical reasons ( at the confluence the Elbe flows through prominent wide valley while the Vltava, flowing into the valley, meets the Elbe at almost a right angle, so it appears as a tributary ) the river continues as Elbe.

The river flows through that town, skirts Ellensburg, passes the city of Yakima, and continues southeast to Richland, where it flows into the Columbia River at an elevation of.

The Yakut language word " oymyakon " means " river doesn't freeze " after the local tributary of the Indigirka River fed by the hot springs which continues to flow year round in this permafrost region.

Waterfalls can occur along the edge of a glacial trough, where a stream or river flowing into a glacier continues to flow into a valley after the glacier has receded or melted.

east of Fredericton, the St. John River turns south whereby the highway crosses the river at Jemseg and continues heading east to Moncton another later.

Today the river therefore continues into the Westerschelde estuary only, passing Terneuzen to reach the North Sea between Breskens in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen and Vlissingen ( Flushing ) on Walcheren.

Today the population is mainly to the north, but the sewer function continues, in addition to which much of the river is siphoned off, and the water table is tapped, for irrigation.

The highway continues on, bridging the Green River ( the only bridge over the river in Edmonson County ), before intersecting with KY 101.

Clark County has diversified its economic base, lessened its dependency on the river, and continues to develop in new directions.

Orange Park Elementary School, built in 1927 and is a historic building, continues to operate a few blocks from the river.

The westernmost portion of Route 2A also passes through Shelburne Falls, with most of the route combined with Route 112, which crosses the river in the village and continues from the junction of Route 2 ( where Rte.

The river continues to flow through the lake in a northerly direction.