A three-mile raft ride on Jamaica's Martha Brae River lasts just over an hour. Photo Credit: Omar Perez Sure, beaches and massages bring forth a welcome dose of serenity while on vacation. But on a ...

Bamboo rafting is not just a fun way to explore water bodies, it is also a unique experience that can benefit you in more ...

Dendrocalamus barbatus (family of bamboo) in the North Central province of Thanh Hoa is famous and fishermen of the region have been using it for a long time to build rafts for fishing near shore.

TALISAY, Batangas—Rescuers reaching out to flooded areas in the Calabarzon (Cavite-Laguna-Batangas-Rizal-Quezon) may soon be riding on boats made of fiberglass and collapsible bamboo rafts instead of ...

Even as a seven-year-old I regarded the KonTiki expedition of the Norwegian anthropologist-historian Thor Heyerdahl and his crew sailing in 1947 from the South American coast to an island near Tahiti ...

Sometimes, the "rafts" are actually a plastic disc or a homemade frame with floating tubs and netting. Often, these devices have nets and ropes hanging from them where small fish hide out in the deep ...

Seeking affordable, sturdy rafts for oyster farming, researchers propose polyethylene rafts. Their findings show a polyethylene raft as being about five times more durable than a conventional bamboo ...

A bamboo raft that looks like a prop pulled from the set of “Cast Away” was the latest strange item to wash up on Padre Island National Seashore. The park, which spans 130,355 acres across Padre ...

Like in the central and southern Kerala where snake boat races are held during Onam, for the past several years, bamboo raft race has become an integral part of the Onam celebrations in Parambikkulam ...