pontoons

Pontoon - (N) either of the floats fitted to an aircraft to enable it to land on water (but in this case the pontoons are attached to Michael’s raft to enable it to float)

"Lost" Viewing guides « Peace Corps: China 2007

Her owner, an old beachman, at once turned the craft over to the party and expressed a lot of curiosity, which was not gratified, as the boys knocked the cases off the "pontoons" and then floated them.

The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest John Henry Goldfrap 1898

In the baggage car are the "pontoons," which in reality are two cylinders of aluminum, about twenty feet in length by three in diameter and capable of sustaining a weight of almost a ton.

The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest John Henry Goldfrap 1898

Officials said one of the undersea robots had sent back visual images of sunken tanks containing 700,000 barrels of diesel -- the first report of the "pontoons" that were stacked on the rig before the sinking.

LBO-Lanka Business Online 2010

Officials said one of the undersea robots had sent back visual images of sunken tanks containing 700 000 barrels of diesel - the first report of the "pontoons" that were stacked on the rig before the sinking.

iac world news feed 2010

Officials said one of the undersea robots had sent back visual images of sunken tanks containing 700,000 barrels of diesel -- the first report of the "pontoons" that were stacked on the rig before the sinking.

Energy News - Energy Technology - Energy Business - Energy and the Environment 2010

Nine sets of pontoons were delivered to the site, but were not used as the estuary flooded too quickly.

Whale rescuers in race against time after mass beaching at Scottish sea loch 2011

The current plan can't just have light rail added to it later; it's not wide enough and it doesn't have enough pontoons to hold the weight of the train.

Mayor McGinn: I Understand the Budget, the Council Doesn’t « PubliCola 2010

Now Seattle wants the pontoons bigger again (for LRT), but as you point out, that width could be used for other means.

Extra Fizz: McGinn’s 520 Plan Could Allow Eight Lanes of Traffic « PubliCola 2010

With names like 'Rudyard Kipling' and 'Joseph Conrad', this mêlée of different boats, joined to one another by sturdy green painted pontoons, conjures up another world: More Dickensian ragamuffin than Chelsea Arts Club.

Streets on the Thames Charlie Corbett 2011