seamen

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In 2025 the number had ballooned to 410, with 6,223 merchant seamen falling victim.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026

The captains of such ships were the rock stars of their day, consummate seamen who risked their lives on the open oceans for wealth and fame.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

Officials say another 28 people are unaccounted for but the families of seamen say the number is probably much higher.

From Reuters • Nov. 17, 2023

The researchers have estimated that the proportion of lung cancers related to onboard asbestos exposure were of the order of 27 per cent in Australian seamen and 12 per cent in British seamen.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023

She thinks of the wild old seamen who lived in this town, smugglers and pirates, sailing over the dark seas, winding their ships between ten thousand reefs.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr