Engineer Nelson Ramirez, president of the United Filipino Seafarers (UFS), which fights for seafarers' rights, lists the qualities of Filipino seamen.
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"On flag of convenience vessels non-national seafarers simply don't have the same rights that national seafarers would have if they were employed," he said.
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"Seafarers will be very anxious and their families at home will be concerned and distressed," said Ken Peters, Director of Justice and Public Affair at maritime welfare charity, The Mission to Seafarers.
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It does however have a maritime institute that trains seafarers.
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It also put out a warning to seafarers around Taiwan.
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About 1 percent of the world's commercial seafarers are women.
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In early 2011, 758 seafarers were being held hostage by pirates.
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It also put out a warning to seafarers around the island.
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Interoperability also prepares seafarers and aircrews to execute operations in wartime.
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But about 400,000 of the world's 1.6 million seafarers are Filipino.
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Still, the vulnerability of older seafarers is likely to put many off.
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Still, the vulnerability of older seafarers is likely to put many off.
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It was a world of long-range trade where seafarers mingled quite freely.
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They enforce national law, rescue seafarers from danger and execute kindred administrative chores.
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Do we, like seafarers of old, crave the hazards of the untraveled void?
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Over 400 people died, including 100 seafarers, and the damage totaled $20 million.
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The Seafarers Expansion allows for the ability to build ships and potentially encounter pirates.
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First he tightened the credit terms offered to his ad hoc salesforce of seafarers.
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"Somali pirates still pose a threat to seafarers operating in the region," Walje said.
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It also put out a warning to seafarers off the south and east coasts.
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Chinese seafarers, the government says, discovered and named islands in the region centuries ago.
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Paper charts are used less frequently due to a loss of traditional skills among seafarers.
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They used to call Phoenicians "cat thieves," because the seafarers snatched them for their ships.
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American seafarers and truckers ship feedstocks that are processed into biofuels by land and barge.
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The vessel's 23 seafarers are of Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino nationality, the company has said.
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But for the sake of the world's 1.6m seafarers, governments and shippers should not stop trying.
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There's no word yet on when tickets will become available to prospective — and un-superstitious — seafarers.
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There's an idea floating around the web that perhaps early seafarers mistook these belugas for mermaids.
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The seafarers say they would prefer to return home, but no port will let them disembark.
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The crew of eight officers and 15 seafarers remained on board but were safe, the spokesman said.
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Longworth said 35 seafarers were kidnapped for ransom in the region in the first half of 2018.
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Gone are the seafarers who over-hunted them to near extinction in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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And there was this little unassuming building in the middle of all the containers — the Seafarers Centre.
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"The cruise industry also fully supports the International Maritime Labour Convention, also known as the 'Seafarers' Bill of Rights,' which sets international standards addressing hours of work and rest, health and safety, and living conditions for seafarers and requires governments to ensure ships are in compliance," the representative added.
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Staff at the Luneta Seafarers Centre say that fights outside between wives and mistresses are a regular occurrence.
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She told reporters on the quayside she would defend seafarers and all endangered sectors against invasive EU regulations.
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There is some nice fill in here (I liked SEAFARERS, GO IT ALONE, SPARE TIME, LOSE A STEP).
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The biggest challenge for seafarers, though, is enduring the mental strain of isolation, said Mr. Soyoso, the captain.
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Parts of the Philippine archipelago have sent out seafarers since long before Spanish galleons plied between Manila and Acapulco.
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He became the young man's parole officer and also helped him find a job through the Seafarers International Union.
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"Seafarers on cruise ships are indispensable to the industry and the cruise travel experience," a representative for CLIA said.
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Later, I became very interested in the workings of the shipping industry, and the experience of the seafarers themselves.
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Using observations from seafarers and satellites, Bryan estimated that there is about 530 million cubic feet of the stuff.
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The crew members were given aid by the International Seafarers' Center in Brunswick, said Vicki West, the center's director.
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It has been causing something of a sensation among local seafarers, not least because it is painted in "dazzle" camouflage.
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Ancient seafarers, cartography of the coast, and spiritual creatures like turtles, crocodiles, and fish are depicted in the bark paintings.
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Dozens of Palestinians, mostly women, had gathered at Gaza's small harbor on Wednesday in hopes of welcoming the foreign seafarers.
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It became a haven of seafarers, nomads and castaways — including survivors of the Titanic, who were lodged there in 1912.
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Kidnap for ransom attacks increased, with 18 incidents of kidnapping and 96 seafarers taken hostage, up from 44 the previous year.
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At the same time, Heindel said, the diplomatic missions of the seafarers' own countries may not be able to help either.
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The multiplayer board game is now available on the Nintendo console for $19.99, which includes the original board and the Seafarers Expansion.
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St. MacDara, the patron saint of seafarers, is believed to have built the small church on the island in the sixth century.
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Conrad, Ms Jasanoff writes, "belonged to the last generation of seafarers who worked primarily on sailing ships", which he called "the aristocracy".
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It's a fairly typical makeup: India, Russia and the Philippines are among the top five countries with the highest numbers of seafarers.
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But Heindel said seafarers sometimes find it difficult to get help from their vessel's flag state if they are not its citizens.
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America is a maritime nation and an ever growing number of foreign ships and seafarers arrive at our shores every single day.
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It is thanks to the Seafarers association and its volunteers, which run the center, that they have anywhere to go at all.
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The startup doesn't want to turn those giant ships into unmanned vehicles, but it wants to help seafarers and make ships more efficient.
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Being small and silent, Wave Gliders are unlikely to be spotted by seafarers up to no good, says Gary Gysin, the firm's boss.
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Over time, depictions of gay men dressed as day laborers, seafarers, and motorcyclists became a motif that appeared in much of his work.
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Many aspects of the island, the statues and the Polynesian seafarers who arrived there 900 years ago have been studied over the years.
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The International Seafarers' Center in Brunswick provided food and clothing to between 18 and 20 crew members, the center's director, Vicki West, said.
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Unlike Somalis, the bandits in Southeast Asia aren't interested in kidnapping or ransom, so they have little regard for the life of seafarers.
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At a high-rise convention center in early October, hundreds of seafarers, naval officers, and industry officials have gathered for an IMO-sponsored event.
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No matter your individual opinions about Cuban immigration to the United States, it's hard not to have a little sympathy for these migrant seafarers.
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Peri made up the word "archéonauts," as she explains in her catalogue essay, by combining "archeology" with a word meaning "seafarers" in ancient Greek.
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"There are 23 seafarers onboard of Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino nationality," said Erik Hanell, President and Chief Executive of the operator, Stena Bulk.
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"The presence of the Lakehead and the Seafarers records for Doige, but not for Doig, certainly favors Doig," Judge Feinerman said in his decision.
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But the frozen ground has preserved centuries of the seafarers' hardy existence on the western shores of the remote landmass, including bones and DNA.
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My neighbor at the time was a retired sea captain, and he took me to visit the Seafarers Centre when I was a teenager.
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"Adrift," STX's drama starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin as seafarers fighting to survive a deadly hurricane, made $11.5 million in its first weekend.
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These Polynesian seafarers came on two canoes and were led by Hotu Matu'a, who would become the island's first chief, according to oral tradition.
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In a procedure that had become known to seafarers as "the custom of the sea," sailors cast adrift on the open ocean drew straws.
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There are three windows and a skylight — with skylight blinds — in the interior, which allows seafarers to catch the view without being in the sun.
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We're covering a shifting dynamic between protesters and the Hong Kong government, the results of China's crackdown on fentanyl and the lives of Filipino seafarers.
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They will be exposed to the vagaries and the uncertainties known by seafarers and to extreme storms and waves -- sinking of the barge is a possibility.
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Here are three of the coolest gizmos on WorldView 4: WorldView took a page from ancient seafarers when building the satellite's own internal location awareness system.
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Blessings from a goddess Gou announced his candidacy this week after visiting a temple in Taipei dedicated to the Taoist deity Mazu, guardian angel of seafarers.
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And if you're bored of the base game, there's tons of expansions such as Seafarers, Cities & Knights, and Traders & Barbarians that can wildly change the game.
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These prickly charms are said to protect seafarers from storms and other perils, but they did not ward off the misfortune that struck the town last spring.
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Hardly anyone is held accountable for the thousands of seafarers, fishermen and migrants who die every year because of unsafe vessels, territorial disputes and violence aboard ships.
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They are the workplaces, and sometimes homes, of at least 1.5m seafarers, and more than 500 liners provide temporary accommodation to hundreds of thousands of passengers, too.
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Marine unions have strongly resisted wage cuts and reforms liberalising the shipping sector, which along with tourism is a pivotal industry for Greece, a country of seafarers.
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Marine unions have strongly resisted reforms liberalising the shipping sector, which along with tourism is a pivotal industry for Greece, a country of proud seafarers and shipowners.
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Another Filipino tradition carried on by seafarers are bolitas, metal bearings or bits of melted plastic shaped into balls, then implanted under the skin of the penis.
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Now it seems as if the ocean is shaping up for an even stormier future, and one that will increasingly affect coastal communities in addition to seafarers.
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Afusat Eke, a social worker for the Nigerian Seafarers' Welfare Board, says sailors often suffer from anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder after being released from captivity.
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While the vessel was sailing under a UK flag, Stena Bulk is headquartered in Sweden, and the 23 seafarers on board hail from India, Latvia, Philippines and Russia.
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"As we send spacecraft and astronauts further and further from home, we must understand this space environment just as early seafarers needed to understand the ocean," it explains.
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They were seafarers and traders from the Middle East, and were joined in the 274th century by tens of thousands of Bengali Muslims captured by the marauding Arakanese.
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"As we send spacecraft and astronauts further and further from home, we must understand this space environment just as early seafarers needed to understand the ocean," explains NASA.
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"This attack shows that pirates still have the intent to attack ships for ransom and cause misery to seafarers and their families," EU Navfor Operation Commander Rob Magowan said.
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"The families of crew members have been informed and the company is currently making arrangements for the repatriation of its valued seafarers at the earliest possible opportunity," Hanell added.
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As for his fellow seafarers, around whom Mr Clare weaves much Finnish history, literature and politics, these "gentle, inward men" become, in a sense, his witnesses to the human spirit.
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Men scoop up shoals of fish, or harpoon great whales; women, wrapped in shawls and with hands rubbed raw, gut and fillet, preserve and sell whatever the seafarers bring in.
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It occurs simultaneously with the holy day of Our Lady of Navigators, a devotional title for the Virgin Mary, to whom Portuguese seafarers would pray for a safe return home.
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"The cruise industry strives to provide a high-quality work environment for its seafarers by offering ongoing training, career advancement and the opportunity to travel the world," the representative said.
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I realized later that this little nook, (something between a souvenir gift shop and an internet cafe) would be the only impression the seafarers would get of the United Kingdom.
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"Seafarers on cruise ships are indispensable to the industry and the cruise travel experience," said a representative for the Cruise Lines International Association, a trade association for the cruise industry.
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Local legends and oral folklore spread to merchants and seafarers, and folk stories gave way to accounts of actual sightings of these places, which accounted for their appearance on maps.
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The Scarlet Lady, the first ship launching in 2020 for the adults-only carrier, will be outfitted with an array of over-the-top dining and drinking establishments for adventurous seafarers.
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Of the 10m Filipinos working overseas (a tenth of the country's population), seafarers are at the top of the pile, remitting over $6bn a year, or a fifth of the total.
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Brian W. Schoeneman is political and legislative director for the Seafarers International Union of North America, the largest American maritime labor union, representing mariners in both the domestic and international trades.
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Kerala, as they say, is "God's Own Country," a nod to its lush natural beauty, beguiling backwaters and wealth of spices that have been the Holy Grail for generations of seafarers.
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The shipping industry has warned in recent months about the increasing dangers faced by seafarers sailing through West Africa, particularly around Nigeria, with a greater focus on kidnappings by pirate gangs.
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There's Yara Greyjoy, the pugnacious lesbian daughter of misogynist seafarers; there's Ellaria, a bisexual orgy-and-revenge buff from egalitarian Dorne, and her sultry army of daughter figures, the Sand Snakes.
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Deep Space Settlers extends the gameplay ideas introduced in the Seafarers expansion of the original game, where exploring other unrevealed parts of the game board are integral to expanding your miniature empire.
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Mr Ramirez's current campaign is against "ambulance chasers"—lawyers and other unscrupulous operators who tempt seafarers into launching spurious injury claims against ship operators and then pocket the bulk of the damages.
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"Seafarers' wages and working conditions are often the first to suffer when ship owners or shipping companies compete at ever lower prices to transport ever fewer goods," warned Channer in the report.
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Perhaps she was worried about why I might admire such a grisly scene — the pictured seafarers are drawing lots to pick who in the group they will eat next to stay alive.
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Master shipbuilders and seafarers, warriors, traders and raiders, the Vikings boiled out of the Scandinavian fjords starting around the 8th century, marauding through Asia and the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
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The last outbreak of piracy cost the world's shipping industry billions of dollars as pirates paralysed shipping lanes, kidnapped hundreds of seafarers and seized vessels more than 1,000 miles from Somalia's coastline.
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Mr. Fletcher said that he had been the young artist's parole officer, helped Mr. Doig find a job through the Seafarers International Union, and bought the painting from Mr. Doig for $100.
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CAPE TOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It was after nightfall when the folded sheet of paper was slipped under the door of the Mission to Seafarers building in South Africa's Cape Town harbor.
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The wave of attacks had cost the world's shipping industry billions of dollars as pirates paralyzed shipping lanes, kidnapped hundreds of seafarers and seized vessels more than 1,000 miles from Somalia's coastline.
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"The families of crew members have been informed and the company is currently making arrangements for the repatriation of its valued seafarers at the earliest possible opportunity," Hanell said in a statement.
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Accordingly, understanding when a rogue wave might arise may help seafarers or people working at sea know when conditions are ripe for a rogue, such as two storms approaching from different angles.
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I hope and expect all seafarers to act professionally so we may continue to focus on the work at hand and building on the spirit of cooperation that gives purpose to this exercise.
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The last outbreak of Somali piracy cost the world's shipping industry billions of dollars as pirates paralyzed shipping lanes, kidnapped hundreds of seafarers and seized vessels more than 1,000 miles from Somalia's coastline.
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Guy Platten, secretary general of the International Chamber of Shipping, called on all those involved in Friday's shipping incident to seek a swift resolution to the incident that threatened the safety of seafarers.
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Earlier in the day, Mr. Gou donned a baseball cap and sunglasses and visited a temple in Taipei dedicated to a popular Taoist and Buddhist goddess, Mazu, who is believed to protect seafarers.
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I felt that with this film I would be able to tell the story of a certain disconnect between the seafarers and the places they are going to (or passing through), like Felixstowe.
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More significantly, the controversy has reignited a longstanding debate about the role of women among the Vikings, Norse seafarers whose exploits, from the 8th to the 193th centuries, are central to Scandinavian identity.
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"The families of crew members have been informed and the company is currently making arrangements for the repatriation of its valued seafarers at the earliest possible opportunity," the company said in a statement.
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Sir Francis Drake, the greatest of seafarers according to the English and the most despised pirate according to the Spanish, sailed towards the Americas in search of loot and with an eye on colonization.
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"If they are misidentified (as trafficking victims by the government), instead of helping them, it is violating their human rights," said Nattaya Petcharat, a project coordinator at Stella Maris Seafarers' Centre, which helps migrants.
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These methods were used by the seafarers exploring the New World and are occasionally employed today by anthropologists and linguists, like Daniel Everett who spent decades working with the Pirahã people in the Amazon.
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Instead, the Working Harbor Committee, the nonprofit that sponsors this event, will give young seafarers a workbook in which they can check off items on the quest, like a lighthouse and a container vessel.
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According to a statement by the Stena Impero's owner, Stena Bulk, and operator, Northern Marine Management, the ship is Swedish-owned and there are 23 seafarers on board of Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino nationality.
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"Captain Alan Dockeray and his fantastic crew honoured the first law of the sea by going to the aid of other seafarers in peril on the ocean," it said in a post on social media.
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Bolitas are meant to increase sexual pleasure for women, and the practice of implanting them is widespread enough among seafarers that they are required to declare how many bolitas they have at predeployment medical exams.
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It is a vital trading route into Europe and those ships and crew transiting it need to be protected, as it is the seafarers working in the region who are the ultimate victim of such activity.
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According to one 1999 survey, 57 percent of 314 randomly selected Filipino seafarers were sporting bolitas or little balls, many believing that this actually made them more popular with prostitutes, particularly those in Rio De Janeiro.
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Named for the English explorer who sailed up the river in 1609, Hudson, a city of just over 6,7313, has had enough ups and downs to make the seafarers who settled it in the 1700s woozy.
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"Although the number of attacks is down this year [2017] in comparison with last year, the Gulf of Guinea and the waters around Nigeria remain a threat to seafarers," said Pottengal Mukundan, director of the bureau.
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"Although the number of attacks is down this year (2017) in comparison with last year, the Gulf of Guinea and the waters around Nigeria remain a threat to seafarers," said Pottengal Mukundan, director of the bureau.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Bruno Ciceri was a chaplain to seafarers in Taiwan's city of Kaohsiung, every evening he took crates of beer, soft drinks and newspapers to share with the fishermen who came into port.
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In addition to the bodies, investigators found empty cigarette packages and life vests that seemed to have come from North Korea—clues that led authorities to believe the dead seafarers may have been North Korea defectors or fishers.
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Captain Sandy Yawn and her sturdy staff of seafarers will be heading to the South of France for their next adventure — though the French Mediterranean's picturesque beaches, quality cuisine and wealthy clientele won't necessarily mean smooth yachting ahead.
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Shipping and security officials say the cyber threat has grown steadily over the past decade as vessels have switched increasingly to satellite systems and paper charts have largely disappeared due to a loss of traditional skills among seafarers.
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A recent study of ancient feline DNA showed how cats left their native lands in the Near East, hitching rides with human seafarers — including, delightfully, Vikings — and then ditching us to invade an ever-wider array of habitats.
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Kim Tingley's recent article, "The Secrets of the Wave Pilots," about navigation in the Pacific, led me to think my exceptional sense of direction and memory is a genetic carryover from the ancient seafarers now represented by the Hokule'a.
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A CLIA representative said its members comply with the Maritime Labour Convention, a set of guidelines for the treatment of seafarers created by an agency of the United Nations that covers working hours, health and safety, and living conditions.
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Last week, seafarers' union Nautilus International said it had reached an agreement with the UK Chamber of Shipping trade association and the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) to designate the Strait of Hormuz a high risk area.
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But the rolling swells of the river only slightly rocked the Hokule'a, a double-hulled voyaging canoe as seaworthy as those that allowed some of the world's earliest known seafarers to cross the Pacific more than a thousand years ago.
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But the CLIA representative said its members comply with the Maritime Labour Convention, a set of guidelines for the treatment of seafarers created by an agency of the United Nations that covers working hours, health and safety, and living conditions.
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Several Finnish employee unions have announced varying measures to support the postal service employees' strike, including a decision by the Finnish Seafarers' Union to stall in Finnish ports all passenger and cargo vessels flying the Finnish flag starting next Monday.
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To illustrate that such an international labor code was workable, Ramaphosa and ILO Director-General Guy Ryder cited the ILO's 2006 Maritime Labour Convention, which set minimum working and living standards for all seafarers working on ships flying the flags of ratifying countries.
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" She writes about seeds from her garden that come up a different color on the mainland; of brown and swarthy fishermen; the keen glance of seafarers; how "all the pictures of which I dream are set in this framework of the sea.
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The number of seafarers taken hostage in the Gulf of Guineau - the region where the attack took place - rose from 52 in 2016 to 75 last year, said Jake Longworth, senior analyst at EOS Risk Group, in a report published in July.
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"Seafarers and yacht crew are particularly vulnerable to contracting and/or spreading coronavirus due to the contained crew quarters and close contact between guests and crew," Stacey Soutar, communications manager at the Professional Yachting Association (PYA) based in Antibes, France, told Business Insider.
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The passage of the sun across the sky allowed ancient Egyptians to track their work hours, the pull of gravity kept pendulum clocks ticking to allow seafarers to navigate the oceans, and the vibration of quartz under stress brought timekeeping on to people's wrists.
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The solidarity strikes were expected to largely stall public bus transport in Finland's capital Helsinki on Monday, while the Finnish Seafarers' Union said it would stop all passenger and cargo vessels flying the Finnish flag in Finnish ports starting on Monday until further notice.
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The solidarity strikes were expected to largely stall public bus transport in Finland's capital Helsinki on Monday, while the Finnish Seafarers' Union said it would stop all passenger and cargo vessels flying the Finnish flag in Finnish ports starting on Monday until further notice.
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Legends vary as to her origins, but chants suggest Pele followed her star to Hawaii from elsewhere in Polynesia, similar to the seafarers who reached the Hawaiian Islands in an epic feat of navigation and migration around the time Europe was mired in the Dark Ages.
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Jared Diamond&aposs 2005 book "Collapse," for example, presents a chilling version of what happened in the centuries after Polynesian seafarers colonized the remote Pacific island around A.D. 1200: Rivalry between clans drove the islanders to build hundreds of increasingly big "moai," the larger-than-life statues carved from stone.
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But recall that "near wartime tasking" of the John S. McCain in the South China Sea: During the work-up phase to prepare a ship for a long deployment, the crew of a multi-mission ship crams much more multi-training into its work-up than seafarers did 10 to 15 years ago.
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A 2005 study from the Seafarers International Research Centre found that 70% of cruise-ship workers were from regions that didn't have what the International Monetary Fund calls "advanced" economies, like Latin America, Eastern Europe, and parts of Asia, while 30% of workers came from regions with advanced economies, like the US and Western Europe.
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A 2005 study from the Seafarers International Research Centre found that 70% of cruise-ship workers were from regions that didn&apost have what the International Monetary Fund calls "advanced" economies, like Latin America, Eastern Europe, and parts of Asia, while 30% of workers came from regions with advanced economies, like the US and Western Europe.
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"The withdrawal of navies from the region and many vessels not having in place sufficient security measures, coupled with reports of extensive illegal fishing in Somali waters, will make Somalis return to the business model which proved so lucrative between 2008-2010, meaning seafarers will again be the ultimate victims of criminal activity, as we saw with the hijacking of the Aris 13," he told CNBC in March in an email.
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