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Appeared in the December 2, 2025, print edition as 'Shooting the Wounded on Drug Boats?'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025

Boats need to withstand the unforgiving nature of the marine environment.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

Boats are often poorly maintained, carry no life jackets, and many of the migrants cannot swim.

From Barron's • Nov. 9, 2025

Boats can dock at wharfs, quays and piers protected by the reef's natural lagoon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

We could see the wide Channel & even Boston-Town, & — my God, I do not jest—there, drawing up, was a Sloop & a Schooner, discharged Boats with Parliament’s Marines to protect their seized Animals.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson