mariner
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"I tried to stay calm because I was responsible for 31 lives, a ship worth $40 million, and cargo valued at $8.2 million," the 51-year-old Bangladeshi mariner told AFP, back home after the ordeal.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
A wildfire sparked by the flare of a shipwrecked mariner has burned around one-fourth of Santa Rosa Island and marks what officials called the largest blaze recorded on the island in modern history.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026
The ship is now cursed: The 200 crewmen die, but the mariner lives to tell the tale, and nothing but the tale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Sal Mercogliano, a maritime historian and former merchant mariner, said that the silence the sailors must have heard in those moments is "the worst sound you ever hear" on a ship.
From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2024
Dressed in drab black, with his mariner cap pulled low and his dark hair framing his lean face, he resembled a bedraggled crow.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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