safe berth

It was only when steamships began to arrive in great numbers that a harbour offering safe berths became essential.

That change, complains the Surfers for a Safe Berth, violates civil rights laws because it was made without giving surfers a chance to be heard.

For several years, a group calling itself Surfers for a Safe Berth complained that the city was flouting a state law requiring vessels to stay 900 feet from city beaches.

One or another of the frigates was usually within close support range, but the patrol boats scattered themselves all over the map, and by Sunday morning, two had vanished entirely, probably racing ahead to safe berths in Bandar Abbas.