Able Seaman Green said she and her ship mates would celebrate this Christmas at sea as they conduct security patrols in the Persian Gulf.

二等兵格林说她和她舰上的伙伴将在波斯湾上庆祝圣诞节。

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Adam Landon set sail from New Zealand to Australia before Christmas but says a broken rudder kept them at sea.

圣诞节之前，Adam Landon从新西兰启航前往澳大利亚，但是说船舵破损导致他们滞留在海上。

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However,in "Christmas at Sea" Sting takes a haunting Robert Louis Stevenson poem and sets it to music.

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Assistant director of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), Michael Howlett, said the 268 crew members aboard the 14 vessels now faced Christmas at sea, away from their families.

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"It can be tempting to have a splash in the sea at Christmas, but it's absolutely not worth putting yourself at risk, " said seafront manager Viki Miller.

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That said, for five years now I have kicked off the New Year by taking a plunge in the icy waters of New York's Coney Island, a tradition I was introduced to while living in Dublin, where I joined hundreds of locals who make an annual Christmas leap from a rock at Sandycove and baptize themselves in the freezing Irish Sea.

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