Across the water from the pier, where commuters stepped onto the morning ferry, smoke and steam still emanated from the altered Manhattan skyline.

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Instead, hop aboard a Thames Clipper water bus sailing west from Tower Pier.

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The trust that organises the event made the decision because the water at the end of the pier is now too shallow.

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Mr Jones said added that the water depth at the end of the pier was now less than 12ft.

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Brighton West's remains may be incorporated into a gigantic viewing tower, the i360, in which people will rise in the air, on a vertical pier, rather than walk on water.

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The speedboat from the Kuala Besut ferry pier rides high on the waves, skipping along the water like a flat stone flung by a petulant giant.

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The girl was quickly recovered from the water, but her father was located about 98ft (30m) offshore, near the pier.

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On Southend Pier, the world's longest, which ends after 1.34 miles in water so deep that flounder, mackerel, cod and plaice can be caught in it, a grey August day finds knots of anglers at every shelter.

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