This week?s Best Boating Photos include images of a RIB car transporter and 20 miles of pipe being removed from the seabed Best Boating PhotosTuesdayIndonesian workers prepare to remove the wreckage of the crashed Lion Air jet in Bali. The plane crashed into the sea as it attempted to land on the short runway on the resort island. The Boeing 737-800, which had 108 passengers and crew onboard, will be cut up into pieces while in the water and removed by hand. Photo: Firdia Lisnawati/PA PicsBest Boating PhotosMondayCranes pull up 20 miles of pipe from the bottom of the North Sea. The pipes were used to pump sand from the seabed to raise the beach at Colwyn Bay, Wales, by five metres as part of the town's sea defence plan. The task took three weeks, 320,000 cubic metres of sand and cost £6 million. Photo: Geoff Abbott/PA PicsBest Boating PhotosThursdayThe container ship Norfolk Express is pictured hard aground having hit the training wall off the entrance of the River Weser, near the German town of Bremerhaven. Training walls are built on the seabed to keep the riverbed from drifting into the channel.Tugs standby for high tide when the 245m ship was pulled free. Photo: Ingo Wagner/PA PicsBest Boating PhotosSundayIn the US some things are done a little differently. These chaps have used two RIBs to make a raft to ferry their Toyota pickup from one side of Mobile Bay, Alabama, to the other. We love their intuition, but we're not sure how stable it really is. Best Boating PhotosWednesdayTaiwans Kuang Hua VI-class missile boats launch HF-2 anti-ship missiles during military exercises in Penghu County. The country is now holding large-scale military exercises as President Ma Ying-Jeou called soldiers to maintain a sense of crisis as China builds its military.Photo: Chiang Ying-ying/PA PicsSee last week's gallery
