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Search underway for three missing sailors in North Sea ship collision
2013-10-07 01:00:00| Ship Technology
Air and rescue teams have been deployed to search for three missing crew members of a ship in the North Sea off the Dutch coast that sank after colliding with a fishing trawler during the early hours of Monday.
Indian Navy's Sindhurakshak sinks, killing onboard sailors
2013-08-14 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The Indian Navys Sindughosh-class submarine, INS Sindhurakshak (S63), has submerged off the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, following an explosion shortly after midnight on 14 August 2013.
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Royal Navy sailors train with new Glock 17 pistol
2013-07-23 01:00:00| Naval Technology
UK Royal Navy sailors have been trained to use the new Glock 17 pistol, as part of a training course conducted at HMS Raleighs Military Training Unit.
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The best of SciStarter: DIY bioprinters, AR drones, and 19th century sailors
2013-06-17 13:30:34| Extremetech
We collected some of the most interesting, important, or and just plain cool projects to come out of the still-burgeoning resource for scientists that is Sci-Starter.
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Sailors to help measure plankton
2013-02-23 09:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Scientists are enlisting sailors and fishermen to help with what they hope will be the world's biggest study of plankton in the oceans. Plankton are microscopic organisms, key to the marine food chain, but research suggests they are in decline. Researchers at Plymouth University's Marine Institute want seafarers to help measure the quantity of plankton. The results will "help us understand how life in the oceans is changing", said project leader, Dr Richard Kirby. Scientists fear that...
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