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In 2004 the vessel Cygnet was called to help the lifeboats and RAF helicopters search for a fishing vessel reported lost in the Bristol Channel.

 

The Cardiff Waterbus is a water bus service operated along the River Taff in Cardiff, the capital of Wales. Services are operated by 4 separate companies, Cardiff Cats Ltd (operating as Cardiff Waterbus), Cardiff Cruises Ltd, Cardiff Boats Ltd, and Aquabus Water Transport Solutions Ltd, both for the leisure market and for commuters, but charter services are also offered. Boats running hourly during the day carrying up to 100 passengers from Cardiff city centre to Penarth via Cardiff Bay, forming a part of Cardiff's integrated transport system. The service started in April 2000.

 

The Cardiff Waterbus (Cardiff Cats Ltd.) celebrated its 10-year anniversary in April 2010. The fleet has clocked up 80,000 kilometers since operating on the routes, carrying an estimated 1,000,000 passengers.

 

The River Taff (Welsh: Afon Taf) is a river in Wales. It rises as two rivers in the Brecon Beacons; the Taf Fechan (little Taff) and the Taf Fawr (great Taff) before becoming one just north of Merthyr Tydfil. Its confluence with the River Severn estuary is in Cardiff.

 

The river supports several species of migratory fish, including salmon, sewin (sea trout), and eel.

 

From its confluence at Cefn-coed-y-cymmer, the river flows south, passing several towns. It picks up a few tributaries, such as the River Cynon, River Rhondda, Bargoed Taf and Nant Clydach. It flows through Pontypridd and through to Taff's Well, the site of Wales' only thermal spring. It flows underneath the M4 Motorway, before turning southeastward and flowing past the Cardiff suburbs of Radyr, Whitchurch, Llandaff, Pontcanna, the city centre and Grangetown, before emptying into Cardiff Bay, near to the mouth of the River Ely.

 

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/decade-making-waves...

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Waterbus

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Taff

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