{"id":93420,"date":"2019-05-18T01:01:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/18\/safety-changes-leave-owners-of-river-barges-fearing-dry-times-ahead\/"},"modified":"2019-05-18T01:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T23:01:17","slug":"safety-changes-leave-owners-of-river-barges-fearing-dry-times-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=93420","title":{"rendered":"Safety changes leave owners of river barges fearing dry times ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operators of historic vessels could be sunk by requirements costing up to \u00a3250,000 per boatOnce, thousands of sailing barges plied the Thames estuary. Today, the sight of Will, the largest such vessel still travelling on the waters in London \u2013 now converted for pleasure cruises \u2013 turns heads.Passengers on the deck of a giant cruise ship sailing up to Tower Bridge peer and wave at the historic barge below. But Will\u2019s co-owner, Mark Tower, 60, warns that such sights \u2013 \u201cabsolutely part of the Thames maritime heritage\u201d \u2013 could soon be lost. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/may\/18\/safety-changes-leave-owners-of-river-barges-fearing-dry-times-ahead\" target=\"_blank\">Safety changes leave owners of river barges fearing dry times ahead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operators of historic vessels could be sunk by requirements costing up to \u00a3250,000 per boatOnce, thousands of sailing barges plied the Thames estuary. Today, the sight of Will, the largest such vessel still travelling on the waters in London \u2013 now converted for pleasure cruises \u2013 turns heads.Passengers on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}