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A sea tractor is a motor vehicle designed to travel through shallow seawater, usually carrying passengers on a platform suspended typically or so above a tractor-like chassis. Early models of sea tractors had a motor and a 10 person capacity. The sea tractor was most popular during the early 1930s, as a unique way to give scenic tours to patrons of waterfront hotels and resorts. In other applications, sea tractors were used merely as a ferry through shallow waters. Sea tractors are hardly used in present time - as boats, ferries, and other aquatic vessels often serve their function much more efficiently and comfortably. ==Current uses== The hotel at Burgh Island owns and operates a sea tractor, to carry hotel guests, and other visitors, the to the island at high tide, when the causeway connecting the island to the mainland is covered. The current tractor is the third one to be used at this location. A sea tractor is also used at South Sands Beach near Salcombe, Devon. The beach has no jetty or pier and the South Sands Ferry therefore cannot reach dry land to pick up passengers. The sea tractor transports passengers to the ferry waiting a few metres out to sea.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The South Sands Ferry - Sea Tractor )〕 Transport to the Danish island of Mandø is done with tractors. However, these tractors are not specialized sea tractors but large conventional tractors with a trailer bus.〔http://www.mandoebussen.dk/〕 Earlier, Æbelø was also served by a conventional tractor pulling a trailer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sea tractor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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