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How To Tackle Fatigue (Seafarers' Pain)
The issue of fatigue at sea is one that just will not go away. The industry has had more luck fighting pirates than it has tackling the problems of lack of sleep, stress and exhaustion. So what can be done to tackle fatigue and how?
Seafaring A-Z Alphabet - D is for...
Davy Jones – The infamous Davy Jones’ locker is an idiom often used by seafarers referring to the bottom of the sea. It is used as a euphemism for drowning or shipwrecks in which seafarers and unfortunate vessels are consigned to the deep, and sent to Davy Jones' Locker.
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