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During the episode, viewers saw the culmination of weeks of planning on Sandy's part with help from deckhand Joe Bradley, who was to bring the couple via boat to a romantic beachside locale where Capt. Sandy would pop the question at sunset.
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Gina Ragusa, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024
By the end of the picnic, the deckhands are tired and starving.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 24 June 2024
Sunny feels proud of herself and her first time as a lead deckhand.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 27 May 2024
But perhaps some of them never truly left: an old captain, a young lover, and an angry deckhand.
—Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2024
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Gina Ragusa, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024
By the end of the picnic, the deckhands are tired and starving.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 24 June 2024
Sunny feels proud of herself and her first time as a lead deckhand.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 27 May 2024
But perhaps some of them never truly left: an old captain, a young lover, and an angry deckhand.
—Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2024
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The explosion aboard the Sultana was followed by the state's second-deadliest steamboat disaster, the destruction of the Miami by fire on the Arkansas River, with a loss of as many as 200 passengers and crewmen.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Dec. 2024
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The sole survivor The wreck claimed the lives of 28 of its 29 crewman, leaving only Dennis Hale alive.—
Jalen Williams,
Detroit Free Press,
29 Nov. 2024
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Wilkerson read extensively about the Black Jacks, free and enslaved Black seamen who manned ships during the 18th and 19th centuries, as research.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
28 Jan. 2025
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Setting things in motion was the dropping off of a drunk seaman at NIS, by a Shore Patrol officer who was in a rush to a hot date and didn’t have time for a proper handoff to the MPs.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
9 Dec. 2024
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In total, 58 of Upton’s shipmates died when the USS Utah quickly sank, and 461 sailors survived.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA TODAY,
28 Dec. 2024
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Svoboda was told the engineers were crucial in keeping the ship from capsizing by counter-flooding the engine room, essentially sacrificing themselves to save as many shipmates and ships around them as possible.—
Sandra McDonald,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Dec. 2024
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The sailors aboard the Aiviq and Kulluk exchanged worried messages.—
McKenzie Funk,
ProPublica,
23 Jan. 2025
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Simmons cleverly folds this fact into his thriller, in which his cast of sailors must fight a bloodthirsty monster while also gradually going insane.—
Calum Marsh,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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When Paris hosted the Games in 1900, a pair of Dutch rowers asked a French boy to be their coxswain.—
Jenna West,
The Athletic,
6 Aug. 2024
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Another Los Gatos boat that claimed silver medals was the Women’s Under 15 Quad-x with a coxswain.—
Phil Jensen,
The Mercury News,
25 June 2024
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Thursday’s launch then got pushed back by about half an hour when a boat strayed into the keep-away zone designed offshore for mariners’ safety.—
Rob Pegoraro,
PCMAG,
16 Jan. 2025
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The fierce mariners who swept out of Scandinavia in the late 700s and marauded for centuries through the North Atlantic and Baltic?—
Timothy Farrington,
New York Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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The article makes one wonder how things in the New World could have been better supported if early seafarers had spent time learning more about the island.—
Smithsonian magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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Moana is once again tasked with going beyond the island of Motunui, now in the hopes of finding other island communities — but this time, she'll also be joined by a crew of unlikely seafarers.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
1 Dec. 2024
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Your mobile device is your lifeline in new territory, serving not only as a means of communication but also a GPS navigator, a language translator, and more.—
Olivia Young,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Jan. 2025
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The sailors must be meteorologists, engineers, mechanics, navigators, and problem solvers all the time.—
George Allen,
Robb Report,
15 Jan. 2025
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“Deckhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deckhand. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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