From November 2023 until this January, the Houthis targeted more than 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two of them and killing four sailors.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 2025
The Houthis targeted more than 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two of them and killing four sailors from November 2023 until January of this year.
Titanic analyst Parks Stephenson, metallurgist Jennifer Hooper, and master mariner Captain Chris Hearn find evidence exonerating First Officer William Murdoch, long accused of abandoning his post.
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ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
10 Apr. 2025
Hazardous seas also prompted NWS meteorologists to issue a small craft advisory warning inexperienced mariners, especially those in small vessels, against venturing out into the ocean.
Hundreds of refugees began rushing the rowboats; once those were filled, the oarsmen, worried about capsizing and afraid of being stranded, began beating people back.
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Casey Cep,
The New Yorker,
24 June 2024
Elsewhere in Europe, graphic designer Tormod Fjeld uncovered Bronze Age rock paintings of an animal, a boat with oarsmen and several human figures while hiking in southeastern Norway.
Giant tortoises once flourished in vast numbers across a large swath of islands dimpling the western Indian Ocean until seafarers during the Age of Exploration from the 1400s to 1600s plundered almost all of them to extinction.
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Kevin Gepford,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 Apr. 2025
Long-distance seafarers crossed the Mediterranean Sea far earlier than scientists had believed, a new study has found.
Join a kayaking excursion on the Mosquito Lagoon, Banana River or the Indian River Lagoon, and glide across dark waters that pop with sparkling trails of aqua and indigo when the glowing critters are disturbed by oars or passing fish.
Elon Musk is sticking his oar in, George Santos is enduring, and Matt Gaetz is concerned about his contouring
January 11, 2025
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All through this feature’s brief year-end hiatus, the elite class of Attention Whores kept in fighting trim.
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