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The interior and exterior spaces are seamlessly connected, enabling seafarers to navigate the vessels with ease.
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2024
The reenactment helped illustrate just how skilled and coordinated the original seafarers would have needed to be to pull off such a voyage.
—Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 25 June 2025
Those cargo ships are staffed by seafarers who work at the very cusp of change and conflict.
—Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
For centuries before Ferdinand Magellan first set foot here in 1521, the inhabitants were natural seafarers, docking on its islands and thriving aboard floating communities on boats called balangay, a word that today has come to mean the country’s smallest political unit, or village.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025
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Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2024
The reenactment helped illustrate just how skilled and coordinated the original seafarers would have needed to be to pull off such a voyage.
—Nora Bradford, Scientific American, 25 June 2025
Those cargo ships are staffed by seafarers who work at the very cusp of change and conflict.
—Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
For centuries before Ferdinand Magellan first set foot here in 1521, the inhabitants were natural seafarers, docking on its islands and thriving aboard floating communities on boats called balangay, a word that today has come to mean the country’s smallest political unit, or village.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025
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“Seafarer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seafarer. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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seafarer
noun
sea·far·er
ˈsē-ˌfar-ər 
-ˌfer-
: a person who travels over the ocean : mariner
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