seaworthy

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The Argentine naval submarine that imploded in 2017, killing 44 sailors, was seaworthy, the highest-ranking of four former officers said Wednesday on the second day of their trial.

From Barron's • Mar. 4, 2026

The department argues that this week's deaths in the Channel demonstrate the "increasingly extreme measures the gangs are willing to contemplate as more people are crammed into less seaworthy vessels".

From BBC • Sep. 5, 2024

These features, along with previous reconstruction experiments, indicate these were seaworthy vessels, a conclusion supported by the presence at the site of stone tools linked to nearby islands.

From Science Daily • Mar. 20, 2024

Whether that is good or not is a matter of opinion, but at least at such times these old regulations could have been more easily swept aside and replaced by more seaworthy ones.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2023

It appears as though they are trying to make the old wreck seaworthy.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman