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  2. Clinker (boat building) - Wikipedia

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    Clinker -built (also known as lapstrake) [1] [2] is a method of boat building in which the edges of hull planks overlap each other. Where necessary in larger craft, shorter planks can be joined end to end, creating a longer strake or hull plank. The technique originated in Scandinavia, and was successfully used by the Anglo-Saxons, Frisians ...

  3. Boyan Slat - Wikipedia

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    Initial interest in plastic pollution In 2011, Slat went diving and found that the amount of plastic surpassed the number of fish in the area he explored. He made ocean plastic pollution the subject of a high school project examining why it was considered impossible to clean up.