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From the 750s on, the Vikings’ advanced shipbuilding technology helped give them the edge.
In the past, the gray whale population recovered fairly quickly. But data on baby whales show that isn’t happening, and a new study finds an alarmingly high mortality rate.
Torpedoes are hard to stop – and harder to see coming.
As their structures break down, the wrecks could release toxic substances into the environment.
A cargo ship leaving the Port of Baltimore collided with a bridge in a technological disaster that may have claimed the lives of up to six maintenance workers on the bridge at the time.
Australian navy divers have suffered minor injuries from a sonar pulse by a Chinese navy vessel. Here’s what that means and how underwater sound can hurt divers.
The Newport medieval ship is the most complete section of a 15th-century European vessel discovered to date.
DNA analysis reveals a large migration of people into Scandinavia during Viking times.
We’ve learned much from large COVID outbreaks linked to the Ruby Princess and Diamond Princess cruise ships early in the pandemic. But there’s still some way to go.
Ballast water release from ocean vessels has been a major source of invasive species in the Great Lakes for over 60 years.
The St. Lawrence is one of the most difficult rivers in the world to navigate. It has been the site of collisions, groundings and shipwrecks. Several thousand wrecks lie beneath its surface.
Approximately 8,000 merchant vessels travel the St. Lawrence each year. Its ports have become the catalysts that link trade, development and industrial innovation.
The resting place of Shackleton’s ill-fated ship is now an international heritage site, and a reminder of how Antarctica’s place in our collective consciousness has changed since the ‘heroic age’.
Crews sang the songs to ease the fears, anxieties and loneliness of daily life on merchant ships.
Little public attention has been paid to the seafarers working onboard the tanker who were caught up in the incident.
Too many small yachts and speedboats are simply being abandoned to shed toxins and microplastics into the sea.
Being stuck on a ship is not only unpleasant, it’s also very dangerous.
Finding the wreck of SS Iron Crown, lost underwater for more than 70 years, was the (relatively) easy part. It’s what we can learn from now on that’s the challenge.
Two labor negotiation experts explain how a 2015 dispute that seemed intractable got resolved, with important lessons for the partial government shutdown.
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Researcher in Seafarer Health and Safety, Southampton Solent University
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Professor of Sociology and President, Bryn Mawr College
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Adjunct lecturer in archaeology, Flinders University
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Professeur émérite de géographie, Université de Montréal
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Professor of Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
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Associate Professor and Coordinator of English, Community College of Baltimore County
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Senior Research Associate, Global Biosecurity, UNSW
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Principal Lecturer in Marine Biology, University of Brighton
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Research in Molecular Archaeology, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Stockholm University
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Director, Centre for Marine Science & Technology, Curtin University
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Associate Professor in Environmental History, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Senior lecturer, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Doctorant en sciences géographiques, Université Laval