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Encyclopedia > Man overboard

Man Overboard refers to several different things:

  • Man Overboard is a term generally related to situations where a person has fallen off a boat or ship, and the need exists to rescue that person. There are many causes: the person might have been struck by a spar of the ship (boom, spinnaker pole, davit), or might have lost his/her footing due to a slippery deck or the unexpected movement of the boat.

There is also a band named, Man Overboard in Ft,South Carolina [www.Myspace.com/ManOverboardagain] Lobster boat A boat is a watercraft, usually smaller than most ships. ... Italian ship-rigged vessel Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large, sea-going watercraft, sometimes with multiple decks. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Man Overboard is a blink-182 song from their live CD The Mark, Tom, And Travis Show: The Enema Strikes Back. ...


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There's a moment of crisis towards the end: his mum and son are being denied entry (the latter because he's apparently a deaf mute, yet dad insists he's just stubborn).
A little kid lumped him together, a mob of kids, blind orphans who never laid eyes on a man. They clumped the dough of his arms and legs to the dough of his body, then jammed his head down on top.
The film opens with a scruffy hitchhiker, it is unclear at first whether it is a man or a woman, bursting into a cafe and making her way (yes, it is a woman, Vivienne, Linda's daughter) to a table, at which Alex Hughes (Alan Rickman) is trying to read.
Man Overboard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (175 words)
Man Overboard is a term generally related to situations where a person has fallen off a boat or ship, and the need exists to rescue that person.
There are many causes: the person might have been struck by a spar of the ship (boom, spinnaker pole, davit), or might have lost his/her footing due to a slippery deck or the unexpected movement of the boat.
There is a blink-182 single called "Man Overboard".
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