Prince Charles and Camilla talk to the RNLI.gifThursday 8 SeptemberThe Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall talk to members of the RNLI who escorted them as they travelled by boat in Kilkeel Harbour, County Down, Northern IrelandPhoto: Paul Faith/PA PicsLock 8 on Mohawk River Tropical Storm LeeThursday 8 SeptemberA canal workboat is washed into Lock 8 on the Mohawk River in Rotterdam, New York, after Tropical Storm Lee caused yet more rains across the north-east of the US.Photo: Hans Pennink/PA PicsDavid Walliams swims the ThamesWednesday 7 SeptemberDavid Walliams stops for a break in Wittenham, Oxfordshire, as he attempts to swim the length of the Thames for Sport Relief.Photo: Steve Parsons/PA PicsLabor Day swimmersMonday 5 SeptemberSwimmers jump from a paddleboat during the Roy Webster Cross Channel Swim, near White Salmon, Wash, in the US, as part of the Labor Day celebrations.Photo: Rick BowmerRed Bull Cliff Diving World Series, UkraineSunday 4 SeptemberPeople watch from their boats as a diver jumps off the 27-metre-high platform under the Swallows Nest Castle during the seventh and final stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, outside the city of Yalta, Ukraine.Photo: Andrew Lubimov/PA PicsMadonna Arrives | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyThursday 1 September 2011 Madonna arrives via water for the press conference of her movie W.E. at the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice.Photo: Domenico StinellisRonan Keating | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyThursday 1 September 2011Ronan Keating (right) and Pamela Stephenson (bottom) arrive at the Forty Foot harbour in Dublin as they finish The Swim - a fundraising swim across the Irish Sea in aid of Cancer Research UK.The celebrity swimmers were aiming to raise £1million during the 56-mile relay from Holyhead to Dublin.Photo: Julien BehalDrama on the water | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 31 August 2011Actors perform during the production of Impression Sanjie Liu in the Li River in Yangshuo, Guilin, south west China.The production is the core project of The Li River Mountain-Water Theatre, which took 5 years to develop. It depicts the beautiful scenery of the Li River and the daily life of the ethnic groups living in the Guangxi of China.Photo: Li HengchangKorea enters the cruise game | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 30 August 2011A man stands on the bow of the North Korean leisure boat The Mangyongbong during its trial cruise to Mount Kumgang resort from the port of Rason, North Korea. Since South Korean tourists have been barred from the luxury resort, known abroad as Diamond Mountain, North Korea has begun courting Chinese and other international tourists.Photo: Ng Han GuanMotoring in NY State | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 28 August 2011A motorboat passes a submerged pickup truck on Main St. in Washingtonville, N.Y. following heavy rains. Stripped of hurricane rank, Tropical Storm Irene spent the last of its fury Sunday, leaving treacherous flooding and millions without power.Photo: Paul KazdanPatrolling the Taj Mahal | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosSunday 21 August 2011Indian policemen patrol through the Yamuna river passing the Taj Mahal monument after water levels rose due to monsoon rains in Agra.Photo: Pawan SharmaTubing ban in Texas | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosMonday 21 August 2011Tubers pull a cooler along as they float the Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas. The New Braunfels City Council is to consider an ordinance banning beer cans and other disposable containers on the Comal River and the Guadalupe River, popular tubing waterways.Photo: Eric GayWet Weekend? | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosTuesday 23 August 2011Two people canoe in the water next to an empty beach in Southwold. The beach in August would normally be heaving with thousands of holiday makers but the heavy rain, affecting most of Southern England, meant that the beach was almost deserted.Let's hope for a spot of sun this Bank Holiday, eh?Photo: Craig ShepheardChannel Swim Record | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosWednesday 24 August 2011Roger Allsopp, 70, from Guernsey, training in the sea in Dover, Kent, as he prepares for a bid to become the oldest person to swim across the English Channel.Photo: Gareth FullerChinese Crash | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosWednesday 24 August 2011A cargoboat crashes into Dongjiadu dock in Shanghai, China. One cargoboat sank and another crashed into the dock after an out of control sand carrier collided with five cargoboats which were berthed at the Dongjiadu dock. A woman was killed in the incident.Photo: ChinaFotoPressThe Longest Yacht | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 14 August 2011The world's longest motor yacht Eclipse, owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich is moored on the seafront off the coast of Antibes, southern France. Its exact length is estimated to be greater than 162.50 meters, while its cost is pegged at ?900m. Eclipse has three tenders, a swimming pool, many jacuzzis, 2 helipads, a cinema, 24 cabins equipped with bulletproof glass, a submarine and a system for detecting missiles. This boat has a crew of 50, some of whom are ex-Russian special forces.Photo: Pixel PressDry as dust | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 16 August 2011Don Long sits on a high and dry marina at Benbrook Lake in Benbrook, Texas.As the summer months and heat wears on, extreme drought conditions continue throughout the state will little chance of rain in the coming days to offer relief for this reservoir south of Fort Worth and other lakes in the state.Photo: LM OteroFastnet Rescue | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 16 August 2011George David, skipper and owner of the Rambler 100, alights from a boat in Baltimore, west Cork, where twenty-one people on board the US-registered boat, the Rambler 100, were taken to shore in a dramatic rescue off the Irish coast, after the boat flipped over as it competed at the head of the Fastnet Race.Photo: Julien BehalGiant Waves | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 17 August 2011People escape as strong tides smash into the shore Hangzhou in the Zhejiang Province of China.Photo: ChinaFotoPressPolluted Waters | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 17 August 2011It might look striking, but this blue water is caused by serious pollution.The Zunyi section of Wujiang River in the Guizhou Province of China has been running this colour since February. Wujiang River is a branch of the Yangtze River.Photo: Lei YunCharity Swim | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySaturday 6 August 2011Polish freediver Piotr Bauza goes under a rope as he attempts to swim 19 km from Hel to Gdynia across the Gdansk's Bay. He was swimming to collect funds for the rehabilitation of incurably ill children at the Pomeranian Hospice.Photo: Michal FludraRacing Hard | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 7 August 2011Kayleigh Perkins Mallory races in the unlimited lights division of the Air National Guard Hydroplane Series.She escaped serious injury when her boat flipped during the final race.Photo: Ted S. WarrenBreaking fast | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyMonday 8 August 2011A Kashmiri Muslim boat man prays on his boat after breaking his fast during the holy month of Ramadan, in Srinagar, India.Photo: Mukhtar KhanStranded Yacht | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyMonday 8 August 2011Ooops! Members of the public look on as the RNLI await for high tide to refloat the Belgian yacht Utopie. The yacht ran aground on Hayle Towans in the early hours of Monday morning. After being refloated it was towed into St. Ives Harbour.Photo: Ashley HugoPutin's wetsuit | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 10 August 2011Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin, center, takes to the water as he prepares to dive during a visit to an archeological excavation of an ancient Greek port on the Taman Peninsula, about 720 miles south of Moscow, Russia.Ancient Greek colonies were located on the peninsula and served as trading posts with the steppes of what is now southern Russia and Ukraine.Putin has form as an action man, being a former KGB member and a fearsome practioner of martial arts. Photo: Alexei DruzhininClipper Kicks Off | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 31 July 2011The ten yachts competing in the Clipper Round the World yacht race head down Southampton Water in formation followed by the Royal Navy's last remaining aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious as they begin their circumnavigation.Each yacht's crew comprises a professional skipper and 17 amateurs who have paid either to complete the full race or one or more legs. They will make 13 stopovers including Rio, Cape Town and San Francisco during the 12 month event. Photo: Chris IsonRussian boat tragedy | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 31 July 2011Russian emergency workers raise a pleasure boat that sunk in Moscow, Russia.Russian officials say an overloaded motor boat sank in the Moscow River after crashing into a docked barge in the pre-dawn darkness and 9 people were killed.Photo: Mikhail MetzelWhere's your sea legs? | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 2 August 2011Advertising agency owner Oliver Voss and the sculpture sponsor and owner of the English cosmetics company Soap & Glory, Marcia Kilgore, ride in a pedal boat up to the sculpture of a giant mermaid in the Inner Alster in Hamburg, Germany.The sculpture made by the artist and owner of an advertising agency Oliver Voss shall be in the inner Alster for the next ten days.Photo: Marcus BrandtSecret space in motorboat | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyCustoms officer inspects a motor boatHoly boating | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyThursay 4 August 2011A figure of Jesus Christ, centre, sails on a boat with religious followers during a procession on the Albufera lake on the outskirts of Valenica.The tradition dates back around 100 years with the followers asking God for abundant fish in the lake.Photo: Alberto SaizChinese Fishing Boats Gather | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyThursday 28 July 2011Fishing boats return to port at a harbor in Sanya city, in south China's Hainan province.More than 26,000 boats have come back to port as the island braces for tropical storm Nock-Ten.Photo: Sun QingCambodian RIver Scene | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 27 July 2011In this evocative scene, a Cambodian woman stands on a wooden boat as it anchors at a Mekong river bank near Phnom Penh. Photo: Heng SinithSolar Vessel | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 27 July 2011A solar-powered boat, M/S Turanor Planet Solar, is docks for a welcoming ceremony at the Philippine Navy headquarters in Manila, Philippines. The multi-hulled catamaran is in Manila in its continuing voyage, which started on since 27 September 2010 in Monaco, attempting to circumnavigate the world using only solar power.Photo: Bullit MarquezIrish Dawn | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 27 July 2011P51 L.E. Roisin of the Irish Naval Service passes the Howth Peninsula at dawn. While the main Irish Naval base is at Cork City Harbour, walkers and local residents of the small fishing village of Howth were treated to a surprise visit from the large patrol craft this week. Photo: Rene BruunMonaco Concept Yacht | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 26 July 2011 Feast your eyes on this whacky concept yacht project by Yacht Island Design.Called The Streets of Monaco, the yacht is based around the Mediterranean principality with the primary focus being the famous grand prix circuit. The idea was to recreate the circuit as a fully functional kart track able to accommodate three karts side by side, allowing for plenty of overtaking.Photo: ABACAPie in the sky thinking at the flugtag | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday July 17, 2011James and his Giant Pie make it over the safety boat at the Leeds Flugtag.The Flugtag is a humorous festival of flight wherein 34 teams of avid aviators construct huge airplane-type crafts and launch themselves off a 6m platform above Roundhay Park lake to see how far their wacky devices can fly.Photo: Anna GowthorpeChina aircraft carrier Varyag at dock | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 17 July 2011Once destined to become a floating casino the Varyag, China's first aircraft carrier is being renovated at a shipyard in the north of the country. A retrofitted ship bought from Ukraine in 1998, it is now expected to be mainly used for training purposes and could begin sea trials within a few weeks, a state-run newspaper reported. The former Soviet carrier is part of China's push to modernise its navy.Photo: Xu Chang ShA tall ship in Glasgow | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySaturday 16 July 2011The tall ship Glenlee moored next to the Riverside Museum during a regatta on the Clyde River in Glasgow.The £74m museum provided the backdrop for a regatta event last week. Throughout the day, the Clyde Waterfront Riverside Regatta provided water displays, including wakeboarding and the first ever Riverside Rowing Regatta, featuring the Sea Cadets.Photo: Danny LawsonOrganised chaos at the swan upping | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosMonday 18 July 2011Possibly the world's oldest environmental survey, the Thames Swan upping kicked off at Shepperton Lock this week. The boats row up the Thames catching and marking all of this year's cygnets in a ceremony that dates back to the 12th century. Photo: Peter MarshallBobbing about on Selfridges' roof | Best Boating Photo | Motor Boats MonthlyThursday 21 July 2011You've only got a couple of days to check out this unusual sight in central London. Can you imagine rowing on a boating lake on the roof of Selfridge's? Thanks to the launch of Truvia's Voyage of Discovery you can until Sunday 24 July 2011.Photo: Matt CrossickGanges Boats | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySaturday 9 July 2011Boatmen on country boats wait for customers on the Ganges River in Kolkata, India.Photo: Bikas DasVolga Rescue Efforts | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyMonday 11 July 2011Rescue boats try to locate passengers of a tourist boat that sunk on the Volga River, in central Russia. Rescuers scoured the wide waters of a Volga River reservoir on Monday, searching with dimming hopes for survivors after an aged, overloaded cruise ship sank amid wind and rain.Photo: Misha JaparidzeCambodia River Life | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 13 July 2011A Cambodian fisherman washes clothes on his family's wooden boat moored along Tole Bassac river bank in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.Photo: Heng SinithAlgae Hits China | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyThursday 14 July 2011A man drives a motorboat at a beach resort covered by seaweed in Qingdao city, east China. The algae hitting the beach areas of Qingdao is only a minor part of the current 410-square-km green algae in the Yellow Sea, being blown by a southward wind, according to the North China Sea Branch (NCSB) of the State Oceanic Administration. The algae, though not toxic nor detrimental to water quality, ravages the ecosystem because it consumes large quantities of oxygen, thus suffocating other marine life. Shandong Province suffered a severe green algae invasion in 2007 and 2010 that decimated its aquaculture and cost millions of yuan. Photo: Zhao jianpeng qdUs Navy in Vietnam | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyFriday 15 July 2011A Vietnamese fishing boat passes near the guided missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon during a port visit. The destroyers USS Chung-Hoon and USS Preble, as well as the rescue and salvage ship USNS Safeguard were at Danang port in Vietnam as part of joint exercises with the US's former foe Vietnam. The training comes after weeks of tension between Vietnam and neighbouring China over disputed areas of the South China Sea.Photo: Na Son NguyenCanadian Patriots | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySaturday 3 July 2011In Quebec City, Canadian patriots welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to the HMCS Montreal.Photo: Jacques BoissinotHenley | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySaturday 3 July 2011A small boat paddles down the River Thames during day five of the Henley Royal Regatta, Henley-on-Thames.Photo: Nick PottsKate and Wills | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyMonday 4 July 2011The Duchess of Cambridge coxes a dragon boat across Dalvay lake in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Photo: Lionel HahnHammerhead Sharks | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 5 July 2011A marine biologist measures a dead hammerhead shark after it was caught by fishermen in Puerto Lopez, Ecuador. Thousands of young sharks in danger of extinction are regularly caught by fishing boats along the Ecuadorian coast to be sold mainly to Asian markets. A 2007 presidential decree authorised fishermen to sell shark meat and fins as long as the animals were caught by accident in fishing nets.Photo: Patricio RealpeOsaka LEDs | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 5 July 2011A marine biologist measures a dead hammerhead shark after it was caught by fishermen in Puerto Lopez, Ecuador. Thousands of young sharks in danger of extinction are regularly caught by fishing boats along the Ecuadorian coast to be sold mainly to Asian markets. A 2007 presidential decree authorised fishermen to sell shark meat and fins as long as the animals were caught by accident in fishing nets.Photo: Patricio RealpeJubilee.gifSunday 26 June 2011Part of a flotilla of around 20 boats pass the Houses of Parliament as part of a rehearsal ahead of next year's Jubilee Pageant, which will feature a flotilla of 1000 boats.Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA picsPolish-navy.gifSunday 26 June 2011The Polish Navy puts on a show of power as its vessels parade during the Polish Navy Day celebrations on the Baltic Sea. Photo: Michal Fludra/PA picsHenley regatta.jpgWednesday 29 June 2011An umpire's boat makes its way to the start during day one of the Henley Royal Regatta, Henley-on-Thames.Photo: Steve Parsons/PA picsTaking the air | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 29 June 2011People go out to enjoy some cool air on board traditional Japanese pleasure boats in Odaiba, Minato Ward, Tokyo. A Pacific high pressure system that covered wide areas of the nation has interrupted the rainy season in many parts of Japan.Photo: Mitsuru Tamura/PA picsMonaco.jpgWednesday 29 June 2011A yacht enters the Fontvieille port, Monaco, ahead of the much-anticipated nuptials of Prince Albert II of Monaco and his fiancee Charlene Wittstock of South Africa. The couple are due to tie the knot this weekend in no small amount of style.Photo: Francois Mori/PA picsMonaco | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 29 June 2011A yacht enters the Fontvieille port, Monaco, ahead of the much-anticipated nuptials of Prince Albert II of Monaco and his fiancee Charlene Wittstock of South Africa. The couple are due to tie the knot this weekend in no small amount of style.Photo: Francois Mori/PA picsMerchant ship MV WisdomMonday 20 JuneIn Mumbai, India, a man is pictured on Chowpatty Beach on the Arabian coast making playful use of the grounded Merchant Ship MV Wisdom. The 9000-tonne ship has been grounded since it ran adrift whilst being tugged from Colombo to Alang. The ship, which has no fuel and is scheduled for relocation by the navy, has become something of a tourist attraction.China-floods.gifMonday 20 JuneA startling image as people make their way through the flooded streets of Lanxi city in east China. Similar images throughout the area illustrate pig farmers shuttling their livestock to safety on boats through the streets and bicycles passing closely by boats on the roads. Heavy rains fell on the Zhejiang province, dangerously raising the level of the nearby river and putting eastern China at a "critical point in battling seasonal floods", according to the Chinese flood authority.Credit: PA picsCambridge.gifTuesday 21 JuneCambridge students relax on punts on the River Cam and continue their end of year celebrations the morning after the biggest night of the year after attending the Cambridge Trinity College May Ball. The undergraduates took to the river in dinner jackets and ball gowns to celebrate in a formal tradition spanning 145 years.Credit: Chris Radburn/PA picsSinking-house.gifWednesday 22 JuneA house is engulfed by flood waters in North Dakota. The Missouri River flood waters in the area shown, that of Hoge Island, Bismarck, have proved devastating to more than just this home ? many houses have been broken apart and swept away by the waters. The Magnus family of four who had built a dyke around their house in the hope of shielding it from the oncoming waters had evacuated the house in early June. Officials in the area are working furiously to stop the overflowing river from causing more damage.Brian Gehring/PA PicsDam-bust.gifWednesday 22 JuneTourists flock watch in awe as a 70-metre-high waterfall is created when flood and sand is discharged from the Xiaolangdi reservoir dam on the Yellow River in central China?s Henan Province. The Yellow River Xiaolangdi Waterfall Watching Festival lasts from 20 June-10 July.Credit: PA PicsDragon Boat Race | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyMonday 6 June 2011People take part in a dragon boat race to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival on the Lizhiwan stream in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province. The festival, falling on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is in remembrance of Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet who committed suicide in the Miluo River on the day in 221 BC.Photo: Guang DaoBagong Pag Asa | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyMonday 6 June 2011A bright-yellow boat aptly named Bagong Pag-Asa or New Hope, is anchored in the shallow waters at the remote village of Layag-layag, Zamboanga city, in the southern Philippines to be used by school to get to school. Dozens of dirt-poor children in the mangrove village in Layag-layag no longer have to swim, while straining to hold their books above water, to get to school after government employee and blogger Jay Jaboneta learned of their plight and raised money through Facebook to build them at least three boats.Photo: David LuyGalicia | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySubmarine | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 7 June 2011A crewmember looks over the US Submarine Rescue Diving and Recompression System before it sets off to dock with the Russian SSK Alrosa submarine 150 metres under the Mediterranean Sea, near the Spanish port of Cartagena as part of Exercise Bold Monarch, the world's largest submarine escape and rescue drill.Photo: David CheskinTroms | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 8 June 2011The Royal Yacht Norge pictured during a visit to the Gratangen municipality as part of King Harald, and Queen Sonja of Norway's third day of a visit to the county of Troms in northern Norway.Photo: Julian ParkerToranor Planet solar | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 29 May 2011The Toranor PlanetSolar yacht arrives on its first Australian stopover at Riverside Centre Pontoon, Brisbane. Its builders claim that the yacht will be the first fully solar-powered vessel to circumnavigate around the world. The yacht is in an attempt to cover about 27,000 nautical miles in its effort to prove that current renewable energy technologies are reliable and effective and to demonstrate the potential of environmentally responsible mobility concepts. The multi-hull catamaran has a solar photovoltaic surface area of over 537 square meters, hosting 38,000 high-efficiency solar cells, making it the biggest solar-powered ship in the world.Photo: James MorganThe Maltese Falcon | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 31 May 2011The Maltese Falcon, built by Perini Navi, docked at Pier 59, New York. The luxury clipper was commissioned and formerly owned by American venture capitalist Tom Perkins. It is the largest privately-owned sailing yachts in the world at 88m (289ft),The masts are approximately 58 m (190ft) in height above the bottom bearing.The yacht was sold in 2009 to British hedge-fund manager Elena Ambrosiadou.Photo: Charles GuerinRFA Fort Austin | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 31 May 2011Assisted by the Smit tugs Smit Sandon and Smit Waterloo, the RFA Fort Austin arrives at Birkenhead under tow from Portsmouth, where she has been laid up for two years, for an extensive re-fit by Cammell Lairds shipyard.Photo: John GodsellDo you want a flake in that? | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 1 June 2011Ice cream man Jamie Campbell serves from the World's first amphibious Ice Cream Van, HMS Flake 99, as it passes the St Stephen's Tower next to the Houses of Parliament by the River Thames in London, to mark National Ice Cream Week.Photo: David ParryPoyang Lake | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyThursday 2 June 2011Fisherman Tao Jingun stands with his boat sitting in the bottom of the dried-up Poyang Lake, a vast wetland turned dry by China's worst drought in decades, in Xingzi in Jiangxi Province, China. "This is the least water I've seen in over 30 years. There's nothing we can do," said Tao.Photo: Eugene ToshikoThe Last Levee | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySaturday 21 May 2011With his boat parked on the levee, a homeowner walks to the front door of his levee-protected home near the Yazoo River in Yazoo City, Mississippi. Floodwaters from the Yazoo River continue to get deeper near Yazoo City, even as the Mississippi River is slowly falling, since it is still so high that water is backing up into its tributaries, especially the Yazoo River.Photo: Dave MartinHeading Home | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 22 May 2011Passengers stand on a bank as they wait for a ferry to go back to their village, in Pantanaw, Ayeyawady Delta, southwest of Yangon, Myanmar.Photo: Khin Maung WinAfghan Wake | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats Monthly Sunday 22 May 2011An early morning run at the Qargha Lake on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan.Photo: Mustafa QuraishiStatue of Liberty | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 25 March 2011Fire boats spray water near the Statue of Liberty to kick off Fleet Week in New York. The Parade of Ships started with nine vessels sailing under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, up the Hudson to the George Washington Bridge. The ships then turned around and docked on Manhattan's West Side and Staten Island.Photo: Seth WenigHonghu Lake | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyThursday 26 May 2011A fisherman stands on his boat on the dried-up Honghu Lake in Honghu in China's Hubei province on Thursday, May 26, 2011. The Yangtze delta is caught in its worst drought in 50 years. The water shortage affected 4.4 million people and 3.2 million farm animals, according to the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief HeadquartersPhoto: Zhang ChangSpace Shuttle Endeavour | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySaturday 14 May 2011A US Coast Guard boat patrols near the space shuttle Endeavour at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.Endeavour and her crew of six astronauts took off on Monday morning on an 16-day mission to the international space station.Photo: Terry Renna.The Royal Yacht Britannia | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyMonday 16 May 2011Interviewed by broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh to mark his 90th birthday, the Duke of Edinburgh was asked what his feelings were when the <i>Royal Yacht Britannia</i> was decommissioned. He answered: "Sad." Asked if he thought it was the right thing to do, he replied simply: "No."Photo: PA WireDragon Boat | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 17 May 2011Visitors board a dragon boat while others take in the night scenery of Xihu in Hangzhou, China.Photo: Andy WongTower Bridge Opens | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyWednesday 18 May 2011A 121ft restored wooden sailing freighter named <i>The Irene</i> passes Tower Bridge on the River Thames, during the final leg of her historic journey from Bordeaux, France, to London, which started on 6 May.The 104-year-old boat is carrying a cargo of limited edition specially made Claret, following the old-fashioned wine route from Bordeaux.Photo: Yui MokMississippi Flooding | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyThursday 19 May 2011A boat motors through Mississippi River floodwaters past a wall of Hesco baskets, protecting the Riverside Medical Center in Vidalia, Louisiana.For thousands of people forced from their homes by the rising Mississippi River, life has become a tedious waiting game: waiting for meals at shelters, waiting for the latest word on their flooded homes, waiting for the river to fall.Photo: Gerald HerbertWhale Rescue | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySaturday 7 May 2011Marine mammal rescuers from the Marine Mammal Conservancy and other organisations load a pilot whale onto a boat at Cudjoe Key, Florida. The mammal is one of two pilot whales that were released late on Saturday afternoon off the lower Florida Keys. They were part of a group of about 20 marine mammals that stranded off Cudjoe Key last Thursday.Photo: Julie BotteriFloods | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 8 May 2011A man and a woman transport boxes in a boat along a street immersed by flood waters from the Richilieu River in the town of Saint-Blaise-Sur-Richelieu, Quebec.Photo: Graham HughesPope Parade | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 8 May 2011Pope Benedict XVI celebrated an open-air mass on Sunday for 300,000 faithful in Venice, the spiritual highlight of his two-day pastoral visit to the lagoon city. It is the first papal visit to the city since John Paul II plied the canals in a gondola 26 years ago. The visit was held under tight security, with helicopters flying overhead and the pope flanked by his personal security corps.Photo: Luigi CostantiniGolden Gate | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 10 May 2011A US coastguard boat is shown in San Francisco Bay with the Golden Gate Bridge in this view from Sausalito, California.Photo: Eric RisbergCannes | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyTuesday 10 May 2011A superyacht is seen behind a logo for the 64th International Film Festival, in Cannes, southern France.Photo: Virgina MayoLobster Season | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySaturday 30 April 2011With the North Cape windmills visible in the distance, lobster boats set out from Tignish, Prince Edward Island, for the first day of the Canadian lobster season. Photo: Nathan RochfordCuauhtemoc | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlySunday 1 May 2011The Mexican Navy tallship Cuauhtemoc arrives in Havana Bay, Cuba. Named after the last Aztec emperor Cuauhtemoc, the tallship is used as a sail training vessel for the Mexican Navy and is visiting Cuba as part of a 230-day voyage to 16 ports in three continents.One of the first tasks new recruits are charged with is learning how to pronounce its name. Photo: Javier GaleanoA turtle trapper and his raft | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyThursday 5 May 2011Precariously balanced, a Chinese man paddles out on a raft fashioned from two inner tubes to fish and trap turtles along a river on the outskirts of Beijing.Photo: Ng Han Guan Dragon Boats | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyThursday 5 May 2011Teams compete in the annual traditional dragon boat race in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture.Photo: Press Association ImagesHMS Diamond | Best Boating Photos | Motor Boats MonthlyFriday 6 May 2011HMS Diamond, the third of six new Type 45 destroyers, arrives at Portsmouth for its comissioning ceremony.Hundreds of guests, including the families of the 190-strong ship's company, will attend the ceremony along with Admiral Sir Trevor Soar, the commander-in-chief fleet, and Lady Johns, the ship's sponsor.Photo: Kyle HellerCharles de Gaulle | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosTuesday 12 April 2011France's flagship Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, right, steams with resupply ship La Meuse, in the Golf of Sirte, off the Libyan coast. The Charles de Gaulle is the flagship of the French fleet and the only nuclear-powered carrier outside the United StatesPhoto: Christophe EnaSan Francisco Fishermen | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosThursday 14 April 2011Fishing boats at shown at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. California's commercial salmon fishermen will benefit from the first full season in years after federal fisheries regulators estimated a healthy Chinook salmon run this fall. The Pacific Fishery Management Council on Wednesday recommended that the season open on May 1 and run into September - the first full season since 2007, when salmon populations plummetedPhoto: Eric RisbergStormy Weather | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosThursday 14 April 2011Fishermen row their boats during a thunder storm on the River Brahmaputra in Gauhati, India,Photo: Anapum NathTokyo Blossom | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosThursday 14 April 2011Warm weather brings people out to row boats under the canopy of the cherry blossoms at the Imperial Palace moat in Tokyo.Photo: Itsuo InouyeShanghai Boat Show | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosThursday 14 April 2011Visitors look at luxury yachts during the 2011 China (Shanghai) International Boat Show. China accounted for 1 to 2 percent of global yacht sales of US$3.4 billion in 2010 but the market is growing fast as the country's rapidly increasing prosperity are driving demand for everything from dinghies to yachts.Photo: Weng LeiRichard Branson | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosBranson | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosHot Air Balloons | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosHot Air Balloons | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosJapan Earthquake | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosJapan Earthquake | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosHMS Astute | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosHMS Astute | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosRio Swimmers | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosRio swimmers | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PhotosShark lands in boatTuesday 29 MarchSteven Prejean, a fisherman in Texas, looks over a 375lb mako shark, which had landed on his boat the day before.Photo: AP Photo/The Brazosport Facts, Holly ParkerWashed up boats in JapanWednesday 30 MarchLocal fishemen gather by ships that were washed up in Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, northern Japan following the tsunami of 11 March.Photo: AP Photo/Eugene HoshikoMarine helicopter crashWednesday 30 MarchThe coastguard investigates the wreckage of a Marine Corps' CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter that crashed in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. One marine died in the crash. Photo: AP Photo/Honoulu Star-Advertiser, Dennis OdaUS military barge sails into Tokyo bayThursday 31 MarchA US military barge motors into Tokyo Bay en route to the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which was damaged by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami of 11 March.Photo: AP Photo/Kyodo NewsPrince William shows RAF Sea King to grandparentsFriday 1 AprilPrince William shows the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh the Sea King Helicopter he flies during his training as a Search and Rescue pilot in Anglesey.Photo: John Stillwell/PA WireBoat race | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PicturesThursday 24 March 2011Members of the Cambridge boat race team carry their boat to the Thames for a practice session ahead of Saturday's 157th annual competition against Oxford.Photo: Anthony DevlinSightseeing boat | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PicturesWednesday 23 March 2011As the extent of the devastation wreaked in Japan continues to be revealed, this sightseeing boat was discovered, washed away by the March 11 tsunami and sitting on a ruined building in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture.Photo: Kyodo NewsPutney floods | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PicturesMonday 21 March 2011The Thames flooded near Putney Bridge this week. This probably was good news for the Cambridge rowing team which happened to be at the local rowing club. Photo: DemotixSupermoon | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PicturesSaturday 19 March 2011The supermoon rises above Seahouses harbour, England as clear skies reveal our satellite reaching its closest point to the Earth for almost two decades, Photo: Scott HeppellSurfing Record | Motor Boats Monthly | Best Boating PicturesSaturday 19 March 2011Panama's surfing champion Gary Saavedra rides a wave created by a wakesurfing boat through the Panama Canal in Panama City. According to event organizer Red Bull, Saavedra rode a wave created by the boat for 3:55:02 hours and 41.3 miles continuously in the panama canal waters. Photo: Arnulfo FrancoDisney-slide.jpgWednesday 16 March 2011The third cruise liner in the Disney fleet, the Disney Dream, sets sail on a trip to the Bahamas. It is the first liner to have an on-deck water-powered rollercoaster - The Aquaduck.hovercraft.jpgTuesday 15 March 2011One of two Royal Marine 'Flying Fortress hovercrafts travels down the River Thames heading east by Wandsworth Bridge. Each of the craft costs £1m and is completely armour-plated, has thermal imaging cameras, machine gun turrets and is capable of speeds of 35 knots.Photo: Demotix /Alex Milan Tracy/Demotix/Press Association Imagesicebreaker.jpgTuesday 15 March 2011The cargo vessel 'Fesco Vladimir' navigates a channel cleared by an icebreaker, as a man fishes in the frozen Gulf of Finland, some 40 km (25 miles) west of St.Petersburg, Russia.Icebreakers have been called in to free dozens of ships that have been trapped in ice in the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg. The eastern Gulf of Finland has not seen such thick ice since 1992, according to the federal agency. Photo: Dmitry Lovetskytsunami.jpgMonday 14 March 2011The Trident, a boat owned by Santa Cruz resident Jody Connolly, is pulled from the harbor after being sunk by a tsunami surge in Santa Cruz, Calif., Monday, March 14, 2011. A California official estimates that statewide damage from last week's tsunami exceeds $40 millionPhoto: AP/Press Association ImagesPaddy's.jpgSaturday 12 March 2011The Chicago River is dyed green Saturday, March 12, 2011 ahead of the St. Patrick's Day parade in ChicagoPhoto: Paul Beaty/AP/Press Association ImagesDave coaches.jpgWednesday 9 March 2011Steffan Rhodri, aka Gavin and Stacey's Dave Coaches, takes a trip on a lifeboat while filming From Little Wales. The documentary explores Wales' most successful exports which include a training dummy, nicknamed Fed, used by RNLI crews.Photo: RNLIPA-10343327.jpgWednesday 9 March 2011Redondo Beach Fire Department uses a water hose to spray dead sardines off the sea bottom. A huge school of sardines got into King Harbor Marina in Redondo Beach on Monday night and apparently suffocated after using up all the oxygen in the water. For the full story click here.Photo: Brad Graverson/AP/Press Association ImagesPA-10323762.jpgMonday 7 March 2011Passenger boats sail at Saen Saep canal during rush hour in Bangkok.Photo: Sakchai Lalit/AP/Press Association ImagesPA-10327704.jpgMonday 7 March 2011Flood waters surround a garage in Washingtonville in New York State.Photo: Paul Kazdan/AP/Press Association ImagesPA-10326460.jpgSunday 6 March 2011A RIB from the guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley approaches the Japanese-owned commercial oil tanker MV Guanabara in the Arabian Sea. Anti-piracy officials say US commandos have captured four suspected pirates who boarded the oil tanker off the coast of Oman. Photo: MCSN Anna Wade/AP/Press Association ImagesForth bridgeThursday 3 March 2011The UK's largest crane passes under the Forth Rail bridge on its way to Babcock's Rosyth Dockyard where it will be used in the assembly of the Navy's new aircraft carriers.Photo: Danny LawsonUSS MemphisWednesday 2 March 2011The USS Memphis returns to base in Groton, Connecticut after a two-month deployment. The Los Angeles attack submarine, commissioned in 1977, will be taken out of service in a formal de-commissioning ceremony at the Groton base on April 1Photo: Sean D. Elliot/AP/Press Association ImagesHomebush BayWednesday 2 March 2011A wreck overrun with vegetation still floats in Homebush Bay in Sydney, Australia. The wrecks are the remnants of the former use of Homebush Bay as a ship-breaking yard.Photo: Mezuni HMS CumberlandSaturday 26 February 2011Passengers disembark from a Royal Navy ship at the harbor in Valletta, Malta. The HMS Cumberland evacuated British citizens from Benghazi, Libya following clashes between anti-government groups and Gaddafi?s troops.Photo: Gregorio BorgiaHudson river crashSaturday 26 February 2011A diver is lifted away after examining the wreckage of a vintage military jet that crashed into the Hudson River just north of the Kingston-Rhiecliff Bridge, New York. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Holly Baker said the aircraft was partially submerged after the crash and the pilot was unaccounted for. Photo: Darryl BautistaLibya evacuationThursday 24 February 2011Evacuees queue in front a ship to leave Benghazi sea port, Libya. Army units and militiamen loyal to Colonel Gaddafi struck back Thursday against rebellious Libyans who have risen up in cities close to the capital, attacking a mosque where many were holding an anti-government sit-in and battling others who seized control of an airport. Medical officials said 15 people were killed in the clashes. Photo: Rob Celliers/PA Abandoned boatWednesday 23 February 2011Abandoned boat at Inverness, Point Reyes Photo: Franco Folini Irish electionsWednesday 23 February 2011Bridgie O'Malley, 83, waves goodbye to her friends on Inishbiggle, a small inhabited island off the coast of County Mayo in Ireland. Her son, Joe O'Malley, provided passage on his small boat to the nearest polling station to vote in the Irish general election. Photo: Julien Behal/PA WireGrey whaleTuesday 22 February 2011The flipper of a gray whale surfaces at the Ojo de Liebre lagoon in Guerrero Negro, Mexico. The coastal lagoon is located in the middle of the Baja California peninsula and is one of three primary breeding and calving grounds for the gray whale. Photo: Guillermo Arias/APMissile frigatesMonday 21 February 2011Two missile frigates heading for the Gulf of Aden set sail from a port in Zhoushan city, east China?s Zhejiang province. The escort mission is headed to Somali waters to protect commercial ships from pirate attacks.Photo: Hu sheyou/AP/Press Association ImagesVientamese tour boat sinksFriday 18 February 2011 Vietnamese crews inspect the sunken tourist boat a day after at least 12 sleeping travellers drowned when the vessel suddenly filled with water while anchored for the night. Photo: AP Photo/Dinh Tran Trung HauSea Shepherd attack Japanese research shipFriday 18 February 2011An incendiary device fired by anti-whaling activists burns in the research ship Nisshin Maru in the seas off Antarctica. Japan called its harpoon ships home early from their annual Antarctic hunt, citing high-seas harassment by environmentalist group Sea Shepherd. Photo: AP Photo/The Institute of Cetacean ResearchHMS Cornwall guard Somali piratesWednesday 16 February 2011A naval boarding party from HMS Cornwall guard Somali pirates after their dhow was boarded in the Indian Ocean. The vessel was spotted acting suspiciously by a South Korean merchant, which made a call for help to the British warship. Five hostages and their fishing vessels were released, and an initial search discovered AK47's, a grenade launcher, rocket propelled grenades and large amounts of ammunition.Photo: AP Photo/Dave JenkinsDrug submarine in ColombiaMonday 14 February 2011Soldiers stand on a homemade submarine used to smuggle large amounts of cocaine from Colombia into Mexico. The 100ft submersible was seized from drug traffickers during an operation Monday. Photo: AP Photo/Christian Escobar MoraSurf Lifesaving Big Wave ClassicSaturday 12 February 2011A rower of the Piha women's surf boat crew is thrown from the boat as it is hit by a big wave during a warm-up run at the Surf Lifesaving Big Wave Classic held at Auckland, New Zealand's, Piha Beach. Photo: Dean Purcell/PAJapan net fishingThursday 10 February 2011A fisherman of the Intha ethnic minority group, standing at the stern of a boat, uses woven bamboo to catch schools of fish on Inle Lake in northeastern Myanmar.Photo: PA PhotoBrazil passenger boatWednesday 9 February 2011A black smoke rises from a boat used to transport passengers from the city of Niteroi to Rio de Janeiro along Guanabara Bay, in Brazil. Although most of the boats providing these services were reformed after an extended use, they continue emitting large amounts of pollution in the environment. Photo: Fabio Motta/Agencia Estado via AP ImagesCaen lock flightWednesday 9 February 2011 A crane lifts the three tonne solid oak lock number 39 into place above the Caen Hill Flight of locks on the Kennet & Avon canal, near Devizes, Wiltshire. The flight of 16 successive locks, engineered by John Rennie over 200 years ago, is one of the most impressive in the UK and the huge bottom lock gate is being replaced as part of the locks' natural life span of approximately two decades. Photo: Ben Birchall/PA WireQuebec winter carnivalSunday 6 February 2011Team Chateau Frontenac bring their ice canoe to the finish on the Saint Lawrence river as part of Quebec's Winter Carnival. The team of competitors won their 10th race in a row on the ice canoe race circuit and their seventh consecutive win at the winter carnival. Photo: Jacques BoissinotWater Wave yachtSaturday 5 February 2011People gather on the sea wall as the wreckage from British sailboat WaterWave is collected at Povoa de Varzim harbour entrance, near Porto, Portugal. The sailboat sank while trying to enter the harbour at dawn with three British passengers aboard. According to Portuguese authorities one man was rescued by fishermen and two others are still reported missing. Photo: AP Photo/Paulo DuarteBoat fire in JavaFriday 28 January 2011Rescuers stand on the shore as the Laut Teduh 2 burns off the coast of Java, Indonesia. The crowded ferry caught fire early Friday morning, sending panicked passengers jumping into the sea.Photo: AP PhotoMystery piano on miami sandbarWednesday 26 January 2011Miami residents are baffled by the mysterious appearance of a grand piano on a sandbar in the middle of Biscayne Bay. Whoever put the piano there placed it at the highest point of the sandbar so that it's not underwater during high tide. Photo: AP Photo/Alan DiazWhale ferryWednesday 26 JanuaryA boat decorated as a whale leads in the annual Ferry Race during Australia Day celebrations in Sydney. The national holiday marks the day that the first settlers arrived in Australia.Photo: AP Photo/Rick RycroftSolar boatTuesday 25 January 2011Solar boat Turanor sits anchored off San Cristobal Island, part of the Galapagos Islands, near Ecuador. The boat set sail from Monaco 120 days ago, driven only by solar energy, reaching the Galapagos on Tuesday in its round-the-world expedition. Photo: AP Photo/Diego AnazcoFibre optic cable between Venezuela and CubaSaturday 22 January 2011A fiber-optic cable, suspended from buoys, is rolled out by a specialised ship off La Guaira, Venezuelan coast. The fiber-optic cable, which will eventually link Venezuela to Cuba, is scheduled to be functional in July. Photo: AP Photo/Ariana CubillosSpecial forces rescueFriday 21 January 2011In a daring and rare raid, South Korean special forces storm the hijacked freighter Samho Jewelry in the Arabian Sea, rescuing all 21 crew members and killing eight of the Somali pirates on board.Photo: AP Photo/Arabian Navy via YonhapSailors IndiaThursday 20 January 2011Indian Navy personnel sit by a fountain before the start of Republic Day parade rehearsals in New Delhi, India.Photo: AP/Manish SwarupBirds on a boat Tuesday 18 January 2011Mynah birds sit on a boat during the annual Magh Mela festival at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges and Yamuna, in Allahabad, India. Hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims take dips in the confluence, some hoping to wash away sins and others to secure a fine spouse during the month long festival. Photo: AP/Rajesh Kumar SinghFrozen beach chinaSunday 16 January 2011A fisherman walks on the frozen coast in Lianyungang in east China's Jiangsu province. Photo: Wang Chun/Color China Photo/AP ImagesDal Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar, IndiaSaturday 15 January 2011Snow-covered boats stand in the interiors of the Dal Lake on the outskirts of Srinagar, India. Police say near-freezing temperatures and Himalayan winds killed at least 13 homeless people in northern India, raising the death toll from a severe cold spell to 129.Photo: AP/Dar Yasinbangladesh rickshawFriday 14 January 2011A rickshaw puller takes a nap as boatmen wait for passengers on the bank of river Buringanga on a cold and foggy morning in Kamragir char, outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh.Photo: Pavel RahmanBrisbane floodingThursday 13 January 2011Residents use boats to move around a flooded area of Brisbane, Australia, after widespread flooding left over 20,000 homes under water.Photo: APBrazil floodsWednesday 12 January 2011Residents use a RIB to navigate around the city of Franco da Rocha, 45km from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Heavy rains swept through mountain towns killing hundreds in the worst flooding in four decades.Photo: Filipe Araujo Cambodia fishingTuesday 11 January 2011A Cambodian boy looks at water buffalos as a man rows his wooden boat on a stream at a fishing village of Prek Kmeng, Kandal province, about 15 miles east of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.Photo: AP Photo/Heng SinithChina ice swimmersMonday 10 January 2011People take part in the winter swimming on the frozen Songhua River in Haerbin in northeast China's Heilongjiang province. In winter, die-hard swimmers use the ice-cold open-air bathing areas to indulge in their favourite pastime.Photo: Yao Tingshan/AP ImagesReligious festival in Larnaca, CyprusThursday 6 January 2011Swimmers compete to catch a metal cross during a water blessing ceremony to mark the Christian holiday epiphany in the southern city of Larnaca, Cyprus. Similar ceremonies were held across Greece and Cyprus. Photo: AP Photo/Petros Karadjias Dal Lake in IndiaWednesday 5 January 2011Kashmiris row their traditional boats with a backdrop of snow-covered mountains on the Dal Lake in Srinagar, India. Photo: AP Photo/Mukhtar KhanSea Shepherd chases a whaling boat in AntarcticaSaturday 1 January 2011The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship Steve Irwin chases down a Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica. The anti-whaling activists hoped to interrupt Japan's annual whale hunt, which kills up to 1,000 whales a year. Photo: AP Photo/Sea Shepherd, Barbara VeigaChelsea fans on the Ivory CoastSaturday 1 January 2011Ivory Coast fishermen, dressed up to resemble Chelsea players, perform on a boat near the beach in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. The African state has been in turmoild with the incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo refusing to cede power. Gbagbo has reportedly accused world leaders of launching a coup to oust him. Photo: AP Photo/Sunday AlambaRiver GangesSaturday 1 January 2011A boy covered in a blanket sells Hindu prayer items on the bank of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India. Photo: AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar SinghSanta diverThursday 16 December 2010A diver, dressed as Santa Claus, brings Christmas gifts for the fishes at the Sea Life aquarium in Oberhausen, western Germany.Photo: AP Photo/Martin MeissnerPolish yacht NashachataTuesday 14 December 2010Stranded Polish yacht Nashachata is hit by waves in Sloggett Bay in the Beagle Channel, Argentina. The yacht returning from Antarctica smashed into rocks during a powerful storm, killing Marek Radwanski, a Polish sporting goods executive, and his brother Pawel, the Argentine navy said Thursday. Photo: AP Photo/El Diario del Fin del MundoFloods in Sidon LebanonTuesday 14 December 2010Two divers watch as workers pull a submerged car after it was thrown into the sea by high waves during last weekend's storm at the port in the southern city of Sidon, Lebanon.Photo: AP Photo/Mohammed ZaatariOprah Winfrey visits Russel CroweMonday 13 December 2010Talk show host Oprah Winfrey, center, chats with actor Russell Crowe, and his wife Danielle Spencer, right, while sailing on Sydney Harbour. Winfrey is taping two episodes of her show outside Sydney's Opera House.Photo: AP Photo/Harpo Productions Inc., George BurnsGreen flash in JapanMonday 13 December 2010A green flash appears as the sun sets on the horizon in the Antarctic Sea. There is a saying that those who have seen this green flash will be happy. The photo was taken by a reporter traveling with a Japanese Antarctic expedition team aboard the icebreaker Shirase. Photo: KyodoTourist boats on GangesThursday 9 December 2010Tourists ride on boats in the River Ganges in Varanasi, India. A bomb hidden in a metal canister exploded on Tuesday evening killing a toddler and triggering a stampede that injured dozens of people as thousands gathered for a daily Hindu ritual on the banks of the Ganges River in the holy city. Photo credit: AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singharmadillo rescue PanamaThursday 9 December 2010Residents rescue an armadillo while riding on a boat through the flooded town of El Llano, Panama. Heavy rains are being blamed for at least eight deaths. Photo credit: AP Photo/Arnulfo FrancoAntarctic cruise shipDecemberThe Antarctic tourist ship the Clelia II struggles in high seas with 165 people aboard just north of the Shetland Islands on Tuesday 7 December 2010. The ship declared an emergency after it suffered engine damage amid heavy seas and 55mph (90kph) winds when it was about 500 miles from Ushuaia, Argentina.Photo: AP Photo/Fiona Stewart, Garett McIntoshFishing boats in BangkokSunday 5 December 2010Lights are decorated on fishing boats floating on the Chaophraya River during a show to celebrate King Bhumibol Adulyadej's birthday in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo credit: AP Photo/Apichart WeerawongFlooding in TiranaSaturday 4 December 2010People in boats move through the floodwater in Shkodra 75 miles northwest of the Albanian capital, Tirana. Thousands of people and livestock are being evacuated from increased flooding in northwestern Albania. Authorities say water levels of the Drini River cascade are reaching maximum points following days of torrential rain, obliging them to release much of it, thus flooding more than 10,000 hectares of land.Photo credit: AP Photo/Hektor PustinaBoat in the snow at EastbourneThursday 2 December 2010A boat sits on a snow-covered beach in Eastbourne, East Sussex, (where MBM's production editor is stuck) as snow continues to fall across the UK.Photo credit: Tom Pugh/PA WireSemi-submersible barge in Hong KongThursday 2 December 2010A semi-submersible barge from the Guangzhou Salvage Bureau lies in Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, deliberately unloading concrete blocks in order to build a seawall. The barge, which appeared to be sinking in the famed harbour, prompted an emergency call from a witness who mistakenly thought it was going down. Photo credit: AP Photo/Kin CheungHMS Victory in the snowWednesday 1 December 2010A Royal Navy rating walks past Nelson's historic flagship, HMS Victory, at Portsmouth Dockyard. Freezing temperatures brought the earliest snow to the UK for 17 years and has caused transport chaos across the country.Photo credit: Chris Ison/PA WireSea Shepherd's GojiraMonday 29 November 2010The 12-year-old, 115ft stabilised monohull vessel named Gojira is the replacement vessel for the Ady Gil. The Ady Gil was destroyed in a collision with a Japanese whaling vessel in January. Gojira, which MBM readers will probably remember under her previous guise of Cable and Wireless Adventurer, is currently en route to Hobart, Australia, to join the rest of Sea Shepherd's fleet in their annual mission against Japanese whaling in the Antarctic Sea. Photo credit: AP Photo/Eye in the Sky Magazine via Sea ShepherdLobster boats in DoverSunday 28 November 2010Lobster boats loaded with traps head from the harbour in West Dover, Nova Scotia. Around 1700 lobster licence-holders can set their traps in an area stretching from Digby County to Halifax.Photo credit: Andrew Vaughan/Canadian PressFloods in BrazilThursday 25 November 2010A two-storey house is dragged by the waters of the swollen Xopoto River after a rainstorm raised the river's level in Visconde do Rio Branco, Brazil. The 72-year-old woman who lived in the house is missing.Photo credit: Cristiane De Almeida/PANorth Korea patrol boat Wednesday 24 November 2010North Korean soldiers stand watch on a boat as they patrol on the Yalu River, which forms the the border with China. North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire along their disputed frontier, raising tensions between the rivals to their highest level in more than a decade. Photo credit: AP/Press Association ImagesHMS Ark RoyalMonday 22 November 2010The Ark Royal cruises the River Tyne for the last time before she is decommissioned. Her farewell voyage took her around the north of Scotland, before she made the short journey down the north east coast of England and into Newcastle, where she was built by Swan Hunters at Wallsend.Photo credit: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire AquabikeSunday 21 November 2010Student Lei Zhiqian crosses the Yangtze River on an amphibious bicycle in Wuhan, Hubei Province of China.Photo credit: PA ImagesCambodia water festivalSaturday 20 November 2010Cambodians row a wooden boat during a boat race held as part of a water festival in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The three-day annual festival ended in tragedy after more than 340 people were killed in a stampede on an overcrowded bridge.Photo credit: AP Photo/Heng SinithNoah's Ark AmsterdamFriday 20 November 2010A replica of Noah's Ark floats in Schagen, in the Netherlands (August 2010). Built by a Dutch contractor, Johan Huibers, the ark is around two thirds of the estimated size of the biblical version and is used for education, events and parties.Photo credit: Noel Desnos Boat2BoatPhotos.comScarborough stormsWednesday 17 November 2010The end of the pier was a stormy place to be in November as this fisherman in Scarborough harbour found out as gales and high tides sent waves over the sea wall.Photo credit: John Giles/PA WireCornwall floodsWednesday 17 November A man rides his bike through flood water beside the river Fowey in Lostwithiel, Cornwall where flooding has caused havoc. Cornwal suffered heavy flooding with water up to 5ft-deep in places and many people trapped in their homes or cars.Photo credit: Ben Birchall/PA WireRachel and Paul ChandlerTuesday 16 November 2010Paul Chandler, 57, (right) and his wife Rachel Chandler 60, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, arrive back in the UK at Heathrow Airport after being freed after being held captive by Somali pirates for more than a year. Their return brings to an end a 388-day ordeal that began in October 2009, when their yacht was seized by armed pirates as it sailed from the Seychelles towards Tanzania. Photo credit: Steve Parsons/PA WireFerry BangladeshTuesday 16 November 2010Hundreds of Bangladeshi passengers headed to the southern districts to celebrate Eid al-Adha travel in overcrowded ferries through the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh.Photo credit: AP Photo/Pavel RahmanCarnival SplendorThursday 11 November 2010Sabrina Klinge, right, a passenger who was onboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship for her honeymoon, looks delighted to disembark in San Diego. The ship was stranded for four days after a fire in one of the engine rooms knocked out the power, meaning passengers had no hot food, flushing toilets, lights or hot showers. The luxury vessel was dubbed the "Spam ship" after US helicopters made emergency air drops of navy rations including tins of the processed pork and ham, and Pop Tarts.Photo credit: AP Photo/Jae C. HongCaen Hill lock flightWednesday 10 November 2010Caen Hill lock flight in Wiltshire which will be transformed by a £50 million revamp this winter. The restoration programme includes the hanging of more than 100 handcrafted oak lock gates, as part of the essential maintenance of the country's canals - an important example of working industrial heritage. The public will be able to see restoration work carried out on the network through a series of open days at sites.Photo credit: Barry Batchelor/PA WireGuangzhouTuesday 9 November 2010Workers clear waste from the river at the athletes' village in Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province. The 16th Asian Games will open on Friday. Photo credit: Jia Guorong/Color China Photo/AP Images HMS Ark RoyalTuesday 9 November 2010The Royal Navy flagship HMS Ark Royal leaves Portsmouth for the last time before being decommissioned. She is sailing to Scotland where she will be stripped of her ammunition before returning to her home port and then scrapped or sold. It was announced in the Strategic Defence Spending Review last month that the 25-year-old ship was to leave service four years ahead of schedule. Photo credit: Chris Ison/PA Wire.Fishing boat agroundSaturday 6 November 2010A fishing boat, Motxo, which ran aground off the Basque coast between Deba and Zumaia in northern Spain lists in the sea, turned completely over onto the port side. The ship poured more than 15 thousand litres of diesel into the sea. Photo credit: AP Photo/Alvaro BarrientosAsian games opening ceremonyNovemberFireworks explode above ships taking part in the rehearsal for the opening ceremony of the 16th Asian Games on Wednesday 3 November 2010. Athletes from across Asia descend on the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou for the biggest sports event outside of the Olympics.Photo: AP PhotoFrank Bolter's paper boatTuesday 2 November 2010German artist, Frank Bolter, floats an origami paper boat as part of an installation called To The World's End. The vessel was folded at Canary Wharf, London, then sailed on the nearby Thames as part of the Drift10 biennial art exhibition.Photo credit: Gareth Fuller/PA WireGreat white sharkMonday 1 November 2010Just when you thought it was safe to back into the water you find out there are ruddy great man-eaters like this casually floating about the Western Cape of South Africa.Photo credit: Roger de la Harpe/DPA/Press Association ImagesFryderyk ChopinSunday 31 October 2010The stricken Polish training vessel Fryderyk Chopin lost both its masts when it was hit by gale-force winds about 100 miles (160 kilometers) off the Isles of Scilly. The ship, which is used to train young sailors, was towed into Falmouth harbor. Photo: AP Photo/RNLI FalmouthDisney Dream cruise shipSaturday 30 October 2010The 340m long 'Disney Dream' passenger ship, is undocked at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg, Germany. The new ship, which has a registered tonnage of 128,000 and a capacity to carry 4000 passengers, will make its way across the narrow Ems river into the North Sea. Photo: Ingo Wagner/DPA/Press Association ImagesPension reform protestThursday 28 October 2010Pension reform demonstrators and visitors walk past some of the mono hulls participating in the Route du Rhum sailing race and which are docked in Saint-Malo harbour. The transatlantic race to the French Caribbean starts on Halloween.Photo credit: AP Photo/Jacques BrinonBihar electionsWednesday 27 October 2010A vehicle on election duty is ferried across a river on a boat, as passengers crowd another boat on the outskirts of Patna, India. Photo credit: AP Photo/Prashant RaviHMS AstuteMonday 25 October 2010HMS Astute (left), the nuclear-powered submarine which ran aground off the coast of Skye, returns to its base at Faslane on the Clyde for further checks.Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA WireRiver CamMonday 25 October 2010Punters make their way along the River Cam in the autumnal sushine in Cambridge.Photo credit: Chris Radburn/PA WireRio Negro river in ManausSunday 24 October 2010Boats sit at the dry Rio Negro river in Manaus, Brazil. The Rio Negro river, one of the Amazon river's largest tributaries, registered historic draught levels this weekend, which could affect thousands of fishing communities in the region. According to Brazilian civil defense officials, the depth of the Black river dropped by six centimeters. Photo credit: AP Photo/Bruno KellyThailand riverWednesday 20 October 2010A Buddhist monk rows his boat past a giant Buddha image at a flooded temple in Ayutthaya province, central Thailand. Downpours that started over the weekend have affected nearly 55,000 people, according to the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department. Photo: AP PhotoYangtze River Tuesday 19 OctoberA troup of beaver boats carry wood and debris to a special dock in Yunyang county in China's Chongqing municipality. Water from the upstream region has brought high amounts of floating waste into the Yangtze River, threatening the safety of the Three Gorges Dam.Photo: Rao Guojun/Color China Photo/AP ImagesLisco Gloria ferry accidentSunday 17 October 2010Smoke still rises from vehicles on the top deck of the 650-foot ferry Lisco Gloria which floundered in the Baltic Sea, near the island of Langeland in Denmark. An explosion on its upper deck engulfed the vessel in flames and forced the evacuation of almost 250 people aboard.Photo: AP Photo/Polfoto, Lars SkaaningSmiling sea lionOctoberIn this photo, dated Sunday 17 October 2010, an eight-year-old male sealion called Kanji "smiles" during a show at Kamogawa Sea World in Kamogawa, east of Tokyo.Photo: AP Photo/Itsuo InouyeTom CruiseSaturday 16 October 2010Tom Cruise braves the cold waters of the Vltava river to film a night action scene for his new movie Mission Impossible IV in Prague, Czech Republic.Photo: Rene Fluger/Czech News Agency/Press Association ImagesThousand Islet Lake fishingThursday 14 October 2010Chinese fishermen catch fish with a huge fishing net with a length of 4,000 meters and width of 70 meters at the Thousand Islet Lake in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province, catching more than 25,000 kg of fish in half an hour.Photo: Shen Lan/Color China Photo/AP Images)Hoek van Holland lighthouseWednesday 13 October 2010A replica of the light house of Hoek van Holland is illuminated at the spring of the river Rhine in Oberalppass, Switzerland. The light house is situated 2046 meters (6713 foot) over sea level and has been erected to create a connection from the spring to the mouth at the North Sea. Photo: AP Photo/Keystone, Sigi Tischlersurfing competitionTuesday 12 October 2010A tour boat looks on as a surfer takes part in the O'Neil Cold Water Classic surfing competition taking place in British Columbia, Canada. Surfers from around the world are descending to the small town to compete in the for the coveted prize.Photo: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan HaywardRiver ThamesMonday 11 October 2010The Houses of Parliament on the River Thames. The Thames won the International Theiss River Prize for outstanding achievement in river management and restoration. London's renowned waterway beat competition from the world-famous Yellow River, in China, Hattah Lakes in Australia, and the Smirnykh Rivers Partnership in Japan. Photo: AP Photo/Alastair GrantYM Uranus cargo shipSaturday 9 October 2010The YM Uranus cargo ship carrying thousands of tons of a flammable gasoline product is seen in the military port of Brest, northwestern France following a collision with a large bulk carrier vessel. Photo: AP Photo/David VincentChina floods Friday 8 October 2010Fishermen push a fishing boat into the sea in Qionghai in south China's Hainan province. The worst flooding in southern China in nearly half a century has forced the evacuation of 210,000 villagers.Photo credit: Meng Zhongde/AP ImagesU boatThursday 7 October 2010Pedestrians walk past of a canal barge transformed into a replica of a German U-Boat on the Leeds-Liverpool canal in Botonay Bar, near Chorley, Lancashire. Cyril Howarth, 78, is reported to have spent around £50,000 on the creation. Photo credit: Dave Thompson/PA WireAmerican hovercraftSunday 3 October 2010A US forces hovercraft lands on Kin Blue Beach training area in Okinawa, Japan. The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit transferred vehicles to the Harpers Ferry after the completion of a disaster relief drill. Photo credit: Kyodo/AP PhotosPrayer to surfersSunday 3 October 2010Members of the First United Methodist Church join a Rabbi to offer a prayer to surfers during the Blessing of the Waves ceremony at the pier in Huntington Beach, California.Photo credit: AP Photo/Richard VogelUN helicopter pakistan floodsSaturday 2 October 2010Pakistan Army soldiers ride a rubber boat as they pass by the remains of a United Nations helicopter at Lakha village, Dadu district in Pakistan's Sindh province. The UN helicopter crashed on Friday injuring several people on board.Photo credit: AP Photo/Aaron FavilaTower bridge LondonThursday 30 September 2010Police patrol boats are seen alongside a passenger boat under Tower Bridge, during an exercise to test the London Emergency Services Panel (LESLP) procedures in response to a major incident on the Thames.Photo credit: Dominic Lipinski/PAJewish activistsTuesday 28 September 2010A boat with 9 Jewish activists aboard sets sail from Famagusta harbor in the Turkish-occupied north of ethnically divided Cyprus in a bid to breach the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza.Photo credit: AP Photo/Petros KaradjiasSeal pupMonday 27 September 2010Dublin Lord Mayor Gerry Breen looks on as Mango, one of two orphaned seal pups, is released back to the sea at Bull Island in Dublin by hundreds of school children and members of Irish Seal Sanctuary.Photo credit: Niall Carson/PA WireSand artist Jamie WardleyMonday 27 September 2010Sand artist Jamie Wardley works on an image depicting a girl's face in the dry river bed on Irvine beach in Scotland, as part of a campaign to stop the building of a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston. Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA WireRiver-SeineSunday 26 September 2010Participants of the fun rowing competition Crossing Paris on The Seine River row their quadruple scull boat, with the Eiffel Tower in the background. About 1000 rowers undertook the 21 mile trip across the French capitol.Photo credit: AP Photo/Francois MoriWind farms small boat passes through the windmills of the Thanet Offshore Wind Farm off the coast of Ramsgate. It is officially the world's largest windfarm of its kind.Photo credit: Gareth Fuller/PAMonaco Boat ShowThursday 23 September View of the 20th edition of the Monaco Yacht Show. The Monaco Yacht Show, taking place at Port Hercules in Monaco, is the only boat show devoted exclusively to luxury yachting. Photo credit: AP Photo/Lionel CironneauBangladesh bridgeWednesday 22 September 2010A group of boatmen have taken 34 dinghies and connected them together to create a floating bridge since the growth of water hyacinth restricted their movements on the river. A fee of Taka 2 (USD$0.02) is charged per person allowing the boatmen to make an alternative form of income until they are able to resume boating. Photo credit: AP Photo/Pavel RahmanMoose in Swedish watersMonday 20 September 2010Spectators watch a confused moose swimming around in the Hammarby Lake in Stockholm. Sadly, the moose could not be rescued and the police were called in to shoot it.Photo credit: Hasse Holmberg / SCANPIX Kod 96Hurricane Igor in BermudaMonday 20 September 2010A boat is wedged onshore following Hurricane Igor's battering foray into Bermuda.Photo credit: AP Photo/Gerry BroomeLadies day at Southampton Boat ShowThursday 16 September 2010A model struts down a catwalk at the PSP Southampton Boat Show 2010. The Ladies Day Fashion Show drew crowds to the Nautical Imaginarium Stage on Thursday. But there's something a little tricky about this photo, how many legs should a model have?US and South Korea Marine landing craftsWednesday 15 September 2010US and South Korean marine landing crafts sail to shore in a smoke screen during a commemoration event for the Incheon Landing Operations. Incheon is the coastal city where United Nations Forces led by US General Douglas MacArthur landed in September, 1950 just months after North Korea invaded the South.Photo credit: AP Photo/ Lee Jin-manTurkish catamaranWednesday 15 September 2010A Turkish-flagged catamaran is docked at the port of the eastern Aegean island of Kos, after it crashed into a jetty injuring around 25 people, most of them British tourists. Photo credit: AP Photo/ Isaak PolychroniadesTropical storm KarlTuesday 14 September 2010Fishermen try to secure their boats as tropical storm Karl arrives in the town of Mahahual, southern Mexico. Karl is expected to quickly weaken into a tropical depression as it slogs across the flat peninsula before heading back out over the Gulf of Mexico, where it could turn into a hurricane by the end of the week. Photo credit: AP Photo/Israel LealFishing in the Qiandao LakeSeptemberWhile the world struggled to come to terms with the worst oil leak in history down in the Gulf of Mexico, other parts of the world continued to earn their living from the sea. In this picture, dated Monday 13 September 2010, Chinese workers draw a huge net against the leaping fish on the Thousand Island Lake in Chunan county, Hangzhou city. More than 60 tonnes of fish were netted.Photo credit: Huang shulin/AP/Press Association ImagesDawn Porter ans Nick Hancock open the Southampton Boat Show 2010Friday 10 September 2010All At Sea stars Dawn Porter and Nick Hancock officially open the PSP Southampton Boat Show 2010. HMS DaringThursday 9 September 2010HMS Daring, said to be the most advanced warship in the world, was hit by a tug boat near Southampton on Tuesday, just weeks after it was declared ready for action.Photo credit: Chris Ison/PA WireWhale skeletonThursday 9 September 2010A whale skeleton recently excavated in Greenwich went on display at the Museum of London Docklands this week. The rare North Atlantic right whale weighs around half a tonne, is seven metres long and up to four metres wide. Photo credit: Museum of London/PA WireLandslide lake in chinaWednesday 8 September 2010Workers collect floating logs on a landslide-formed lake in southwest China's Sichuan province. This year's rain and floods have been the worst in a decade.Photo credit: AP PhotoHorseshoe Bay in CanadaTuesday 7 September 2010Horseshoe Bay, in British Columbia in Canada, is seen in the early morning light.Photo credit: Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press/Press Association ImagesOil platform in the Gulf of MexicoThursday 2 September 2010Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. All 13 crew members were rescued. Photo credit: AP Photo/Gerald HerberTyphoon Kompasu Wednesday 1 September 2010Hundreds of fishing boats take shelter at a dock on Jeju island, South Korea as Typhoon Kompasu, the seventh tropical cyclone in the region this year, approaches the Korean Peninsula.Photo credit: AP Photo/Yonhap, Kim Ho-cuhnPakistan floodsTuesday 31 August 2010The Pakistani Army deploy a small boat in the search for survivors near Sajawal in the Sindh province. Floodwaters have devastated Pakistan for five weeks and left 8 million people in need of aid. Photo credit: AP Photo/Vincent ThianHurricane EarlMonday 30 August 2010A boat is battered by waves in Sopers Hole during the passage of Hurricane Earl near Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The Category 4 hurricane was expected to remain over the open ocean before turning north and running parallel to the US coast, potentially reaching the North Carolina coastal region by late Thursday or early Friday. Photo credit: AP Photo/Todd VanSickleSanta Maria della Salute basilicaMonday 30 August 2010A firefighter boat is moored in front of the Santa Maria della Salute basilica in Venice. A painting by Renaissance master Titian has suffered water damage after firefighters doused the basilica while battling a nearby blaze. Photo credit: AP Photo/Luigi CostantiniKayakers on the Bow River in CalgarySaturday 21 August 2010Crowds watch from the banks as kayakers escort hundreds of illuminated spheres released as part of a celebration on the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta.Photo credit: Canadian Press/Larry MacDougalCanine lifeguardsMonday 23 August 2010Dogs from the Italian School of Canine Lifeguards perform a makeshift rescue operation at an international lifeguard meeting in Winterbach, Germany. Unlike their human counterparts, these lifedogs can easily jump from helicopters and speeding boats to reach swimmers in need of a rescue. Photo credit: AP Photo/Courtesy of Italian School of Canine LifeguardsVladimir PutinTuesday 24 August 2010Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, second from left, drives a boat while on a trip around Siberia and the Far East. He has been trying a little bit too hard to show he's a 'man's man' by shooting whales with a dart gun as part of an effort to collect skin samples for scientific research. Photo credit: AP Photo/Alexei Druzhinin, Pool)US customs speedboat.Wednesday 25 August 2010US border agents patrol from a speedboat off the coast of San Diego. The 400-square-mile ocean expanse, stretching from a bullring on the shores of Tijuana, Mexico, to suburban Los Angeles, is the new frontier for illegal immigrants entering the United States.Photo credit: AP Photo/Chris CarlsonBurning dragon boatWednesday 25 August 2010A burning dragon-shape boat, loaded with firecrackers and fireworks, is ignited for dedication to the spirits of ancestors on the Kitakami river. Photo credit: The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP ImagesPresident Barack ObamaSunday 15 August 2010President Barack Obama, takes the helm with his daughter Sasha as they and the first lady take a boat ride during their week-long holiday in Florida.Photo credit: AP Photo/Susan WalshHolly WalshSunday 15 August 2010Holly Walsh, a British BBC Children's television presenter plummets into the sea in a mock helicopter during The Worthing International Birdman competition. During the annual event people attempt human-powered flight over the sea in home-made contraptions. Walsh was later taken to hospital.Photo credit: AP Photo/ Max NashNigeen LakeMonday 16 August 2010Kashmiris row their boats at Nigeen Lake in Srinagar, India.Photo credit: AP Photo/Altaf QadriPanama canal navy patrolTuesday 17 August 2010Navy police officers patrol the waters of the Panama Canal during the Panamax 2010. Eighteen countries took part in training exercises designed to reinforce security in the Panama Canal.Photo credit: AP Photo/Arnulfo FrancoSAIL AmsterdamThursday 19 August 2010Small boats escort the tall ship Gotheborg as it arrives in Amsterdam for the largest Dutch boating event, SAIL Amsterdam 2010. Now in it's 8th year, organisers are expecting over a million visitors. Photo credit: AP Photo/Evert ElzingaNagasaki lanternsMonday 9 August 2010Floating lanterns are released in memory of the victims of the Nagasaki atomic bomb, 65 years after the attack.Photo credit: AP/Press Association ImagesFrozen Sea animalsTuesday 10 August 2010Japanese tourists look at frozen sea animals in the Ice Aquarium in Kesennuma.Photo credit: AP/Press Association ImagesTall ship in HartlepoolAugustA vessel cruises under a rainbow on the last day of the Hartlepool Tall Ships event, Tuesday 10 August 2010.Photo: AP Photo/Scott HeppellSouth Korea marines Wednesday 11 August 2010South Korean marines prepare to carry a RIB during a military exercise as holiday-makers take a rest near the disputed sea border with communist North Korea.Photo credit: Park Ji-ho/AP/Press Association ImagesMSC ChitraThursday 12 August 2010The Panamanian-registered container ship MSC Chitra lists in the Arabian Sea after a collision with a cargo vessel that caused 500 tons of oil to leak into the water.Photo credit: AP Photo/Rajanish KakadeGreat White SharkSaturday 31 Jluy 2010A man hangs off a boat to tag a great white shark. Officials closed the Eastern shore of the beach near South Monomoy in Massachusetts after a spotter plane saw the great white swimming near popular tourist spots.Picture credit: AP Photo/Wendy MaedaMissile launch padSunday 1 August 2010A child walks inside the missile launch pad of a antiquated boat displayed at the Military Museum in Beijing, China on the national day of celebration of the People's Liberation Army. Picture credit: AP Photo/Ng Han GuanChina floodsMonday 2 August 2010A rescue ship evacuates villagers from a flooded village in Dehui in northeast China's Jilin province. Floods this year have left 928 people dead and 477 missing all over China. Picture credit: Fang Xinwu/Color China Photo/AP ImagesAmy Williams and Zara Phillips at CowesTuesday 3 August 2010Zara Phillips and skeleton bob gold medallist Amy Williams (left) get to work on the grinder while gybing down the Solent aboard Artemis Ocean Challenge, on the fourth day of Cowes Week, Isle of Wight.Picture credit: Chris Ison/PA WireGanesh Chaturthi festivalTuesday 3 August 2010An Indian artist works on an idol of the Hindu god Ganesha ahead of the annual "Ganesh Chaturthi" festival in Mumbai, India. The idols will in turn be immersed in the Arabian Sea at the end of the festival. Picture credit: AP Photo/Rajanish KakadeGround-zero-ship.jpgMonday 26 July 2010Archaeologists distmantle the remains of an 18th century ship at the World Trade Center site in New York. The 32ft piece of the vessel was found 20ft below street level where workers were excavating for a car park.Photo credit: AP Photo/Mark LennihanLaura-decker.jpgTuesday 27 July 2010Laura Dekker poses on her boat Guppy in Den Osse, south-west Netherlands. A Dutch court has cleared the way for the 14-year-old to set sail on a solo voyage around the world. Photo credit: AP Photo/Evert-Jan DanielsWoody-harrelson.jpgTuesday 27 July 2010Woody Harrelson jumps aboard a wooden launch on the Hudson River, New York, while filming his new movie, Friend with Benefits. But where's your lifejacket Woody?Photo credit: Charles Guerin/ABACA USA/Empics Entertainmentpedal-power.jpgWednesday 28 July 2010Minh-Loc Truong rides a floating bicycle on the Mediterranean sea in Villefranche sur Mer, near Nice, during the presentation of the Scubster, a new pedal-powered submarine. Photo credit: AP Photo/Lionel CironneauJapanese-oil-tanker.jpgThursday 29 July 2010Damage can be seen to the side of the M Star oil supertanker offshore Fujairah Port in the United Arab Emirates, a day after it was damaged at the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Speculation is rife as to how the tanker incurred the damage and a deliberate attack has not been ruled out.Photo credit: AP Photo/Emirates News AgencyTyphoon in VietnamSaturday 17 July 2010High waves smash against the bank of Do Son beach in the northern port city of Hai Phong, Vietnam. Typhoon Conson, which left dozens dead in the Philippines and two in China, smashed boats in its path towards Vietnam.Photo credit: AP Photo/Vietnam News AgencyOil spill in chinaJulyA Chinese worker tries to soak up oil from a spill in the sea near Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province on Sunday 18 July 2010. Efforts were underway to contain and clean up a large oil slick after pipeline explosions sent greasy black plumes into the ocean.Photo: AP PhotoSwan upping in HenleyMonday 19 July 2010Clad in red-and-white outfits emblazoned with the royal livery, the Swan Uppers begin an annual five-day journey to count the population of the birds on the River Thames, which have theoretically belonged to the monarch since the 12th century. Photo Credit: (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)SeineTuesday 20 July 2010A fake beach is set up along the riverbanks of the Seine in Paris. It is the ninth consecutive year for the installation known as 'Paris-Plage', which also features palm trees in pots.Photo credit: Alain Apaydin /ABACAPRESS.COMJellyfish invade Dr Who beachThursday 22 July 2010A south Wales beach used to film scenes for Doctor Who has been swamped by an army of moon jellyfish. Dozens have been washed up on Newton Beach near Porthcawl, Bridgend, a location used for the sci-fi series.Photo credit: Claire FrewLebanese army marine commandosSaturday 10 July 2010Army marine commandos fall from an inflatable boat during a training exercise held between the Lebanese and French army. Credit: AP Photo/Ahmad OmarSteven GerrardSunday 11 July 2010Steven Gerrard is seen relaxing on a motorboat near Ibiza.Credit: Cooper Photographers/Cooper Photographers/EMPICS EntertainmentDutch national soccer teamTuesday 13 July 2010Members of the Dutch national soccer team greet the crowd from a boat during homecoming celebrations across the canal system of Amsterdam. Netherlands took second place in the soccer World Cup in South Africa after losing the final to Spain on Sunday.Credit: AP Photo/Vincent JanninkColton Harris-MooreTuesday 13 July 2010The teenage fugitive police have dubbed the Barefoot Bandit is escorted shackled and handcuffed by Bahamian authorities to the court building in Nassau. Colton Harris-Moore was captured following a high-speed boat chase near and is expected to be deported soon to face prosecution in the US. Credit: AP Photo/Tim AylenDead fish from Zijinshan mineWednesday 14 July 2010Dead fish are seen in a river after a copper smelter belonging to the Zijinshan mine leaked acidic water into it in south China's Fujian province. Around 3.78 million kilograms of fish were poisoned.Credit: Wang Dongmin/Color China Photo/AP ImagesWhite whaleSaturday 3 July 2010A white whale forms a ring at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise in Yokohama, Japan.Credit: AP Photo/Itsuo InouyeSea lionTuesday 6 July 2010A sea lion keeps the balance of a soccer ball during a show at Shinagawa Aqua Stadium in Tokyo. The World Cup final takes place on Sunday 11 July.Credit: AP Photo/Itsuo InouyePaul the OctopusTuesday 6 July 2010Paul the octopus has correctlypredicted the results of all of the German matches during the World Cup. Sea Life Aquarium's spokesman Daniel Fey said that the famous mollusk from Oberhausen chose a mussel from a glass tank marked with a Spanish flag, while ignoring the tank marked with the German colors - indicating a Spanish victory in Wednesday's semifinal. Credit: AP Photo/dapd/Mark KepplerBoniface the scuba dogSunday 4 July 2010Learning how to scuba-dive, a dachshund named Boniface sits in a specially-made scuba diving suit before a his first underwater adventure. Boniface was said to have seemed excited when being prepared for his dive. Credit: AP Photo/APTNDog and whaleThursday 8 July 2010Cadence the dog looks at a gray whale while it was beached during low tide near Harborview Park in Everett, Washington.Credit: AP Photo/The Herald, Michael O'LearyTall ship paradeSaturday 26 June 2010Sailing ships sail on the Baltic Sea during the tall ship parade. More than 120 tall sailing ships, yachts and small boats take part in this highlight of the Kiel Week sailing event that ends on Sunday. Credit: AP Photo/Heribert ProepperSailors capsize on the Charles River Monday 28 June 2010Two sailors hang onto the centerboard of the 420 they were piloting, which overturned in high winds, on the Charles River in Boston. The pair were able to upright the boat and continue sailing after their plunge into the river.Credit: AP Photo/Charles KrupaGreek strike hits ferriesTuesday 29 June 2010A striker drinks water in front of tied up ships at the port of Piraeus. Public services shut down across Greece as workers walked off the job in a new nationwide general strike that disrupted public transport, left hospitals operating on emergency staff and pulled all news broadcasts off the air. Credit: AP Photo/Petros GiannakourisHenley regattaWednesday 30 June 2010People enjoy a picnic on the first day of the annual Henley Royal Regatta in Oxford. Credit: Steve Parsons/PA WireOil skimming shipWednesday 30 June 2010Closed intakes are seen in a compartment across from one of 12 vents that is designed to collect up to 500,000 barrels of oily water a day on the "A Whale" oil skimming ship, which is anchored in the Mississippi River. Billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel, the ship is the length of 3 1/2 football fields, 10 stories high and has a 2 million barrel capacity.Credit: AP Photo/Patrick SemanskyRound the Island Race 2010Saturday 19 June 2010The Yarmouth lifeboat stands off the Needles as yachts pass the famous rocks during the JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. Nearly 2000 yachts of all ages and sizes competed in the 79th, 50 nautical mile, clockwise circumnavigation of the Isle of Wight.Credit: Chris Ison/PA Wire.Matchstick model of the TitanicMonday 21 June 2010A couple looks at a matchstick model of the Titanic ship made by Lebanese model-maker Toufic Assaad Daher at an exhibition of his work in Beirut. Credit: AP Photo/Bilal HusseinSea lions at Oregon ZooMonday 21 June 2010Two sea lions perform a playful underwater dance for spectators at the Oregon Zoo in Portland.Credit: AP Photo/Don RyanBosnia floodsWednesday 23 June 2010Authorities in Bosnia are evacuating thousands of people as heavy rains cause rivers to spill over, cutting off entire towns and villages. De-miners have been called in, in case the floods have moved land mines laid during the Bosnian War in the 1990s.Credit: AP Photo/Amel EmricMuskoka 2010 G8Thursday 24 June 2010A Canadian military helicopter and police boat patrol Peninsula Lake on the eve of leaders arriving to the G8 summit at the Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Ontario.Credit: AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Sean KilpatrickGulf oil spillSunday 13 JuneOil is burned and skimmed by boats near the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Credit: Eric Gay/AP/PressAssociation ImagesPelican covered in oil in Gulf of MexicoTuesday 15 JuneWorkers try to catch a pelican covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.Credit: Charlie Neibergall/AP/PressAssociation ImagesLorraine Kelly in RIBWednesday 16 JuneTV presenter Lorraine Kelly speeds along the River Clyde on board a RIB to launch Armed Forces Day.Credit: Andrew Milligan/PA WireStranded whale in DenmarkWednesday 16 JuneA fin whale that is stranded in a shallow fjord at Vejle in Denmark is sprayed with water. The 50-foot whale is unable to move and is fighting for his life.Credit:BENNY F/AP/PressAssociation ImagesLancastria 70th anniversaryThursday 17 JuneWreaths are thrown to sea to mark the 70th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Lancastria, a British Cunard liner that was bombed during World War II with an estimated 4000 lives lost.Credit: Mark Hirst/PA WirePolluted River YamunaSaturday 5 June 2010An Indian boy takes a dip in the River Yamuna with froth from industrial pollution floating on the surface, in New Delhi, India.Credit: AP Photo/Manish Swarup
