Researchers at Plymouth University's Marine Institute want seafarers to help measure the quantity of plankton.
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Reminders of the these ferocious seafarers can still be found on these islands, which are a self-governing part of Denmark.
The Plymouth team hope that the readings taken by seafarers will ultimately allow them to test the theory.
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"The MV Action was released by pirates, " said Andrew Mwangura, head of the Seafarers Assistance Program in Mombasa, Kenya.
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"We may have bad news, " said Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya Seafarers Association.
In this regard, we welcomed the proposal of the United States to establish an Expanded ASEAN Seafarers Training Program.
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Andrew Mwangura, of the Mombasa-based East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme, told Reuters news agency it is UK-owned but operated by Italians.
Vikings were seafarers from Scandinavia who used their longboats to explore and conquer parts of Europe, Greenland, Iceland, Russia and North America.
Remnants from past seafarers decorate the walls and hang from the ceiling.
With the exception of a few probable but unrecorded visits by Arab seafarers centuries earlier, the island had no human history at all.
The race, launched in 1992 by sailor Sir Chay Blyth , attracts more first-time sailors looking for adventure than it does veteran seafarers.
Most historians agree that Polynesian seafarers arrived around 400 AD, but no one knows for sure -- some have posited an extraterrestrial connection.
Richardson anticipates that until Russia develops a coordinated framework of boating facilities, it will have difficulty drawing in all but the most intrepid seafarers.
After all, he likes to point out, Arab-Chinese commerce dates back to at least the 4th century, when Arab seafarers established settlements near Canton.
The four might have boarded a life raft, said the Coast Guard, which appealed to the public for help Monday in identifying the missing seafarers.
The last contact with the ship was late last week, and it was unclear exactly when the hijacking took place, said Andrew Mwangura, the head of Kenya Seafarers Association.
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Several of the niftier knots and straps that made their way into the factory-made riggings of the 19th century are identical in function and name to those of earlier British seafarers.
In recent years, reports of ships large and small being hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates have become commonplace, with dozens of seafarers and their vessels held captive, in some cases for months.
Using another outstanding U.S. Government Service, NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there is unending weather information available these days for farmers and seafarers, offshore drillers, construction workers and all the rest of us living our daily lives.
Our judges this year concurred with the view of Filipino crewing suppliers Magsaysay who nominated their crew aboard but also wanted to acknowledge the bravery of others, that the actions of the professional and honourable seafarers that night should be publically recognized.
How this tiny dot in the middle of the South Pacific came to be inhabited is the subject of some debate, but the most widely accepted theory is that Polynesian seafarers arrived from the west around 400 AD, perhaps from their nearest neighbour, the Pitcairn Islands.
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