In The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, the mariner shoots an albatross and all the wind goes out of his sails. |
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Though he was very modest about his business abilities, no one can deny the renown he has won as a mariner. |
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But then I do not expect poetry to be accurate and never really believed the ancient mariner or the traveler from the antique land either. |
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This tribute to Zheng He, master mariner of the Ming dynasty, is merely one frisson in the flurry of activities organised for the sexcentenary. |
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The lake's edges are pockmarked by hundreds of steep, narrow coves that provide absolute privacy for the cruising mariner. |
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Charts and cruising guides abound that give the mariner the information needed on every mile of the canal system. |
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Fortunately, a mariner qualified to command the finished vessel had been with the project from the start. |
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A mariner emerges from the hatchway and climbs the rigging, while below the boatswain and ship's master are thrown about on deck. |
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The most famous was, of course, Christopher Columbus, a Genoese mariner sailing for Spain. |
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When I got angry, when I raised my voice at all, Elizabeth scuttled away like a hermit crab from the hungry mariner. |
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In 1882 a British mariner watched a huge caravan of slaves toting ivory pass on its way to Zanzibar. |
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The mariner has to rely on the prompt and efficient opening of the bridge span to safely transit the bridge area. |
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It is an active mariner centre, it is known for the fishing of swordfish, for the mariner gastronomy and for the good nougat still home-produced. |
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After his secondary schooling he initially went to technical college and did civil engineering, but his heart was at sea, so he completed a course to be a master mariner. |
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In 1886 he became a British subject and a master mariner and in 1894, after 20 years at sea, he settled in England and devoted himself to writing. |
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The source of this distinct breed was clearly the shipboard cats of the seafaring days and mariner families' pets. |
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This book also served to engage the mariner to use the changing weather situation for application to their daily circumstances. |
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The CCG will keep in contact with the mariner to determine if persons are in distress. |
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The dog, wherever in the world its ship was at that moment, would then obligingly yelp and the mariner could then note the local time and so find his longitude. |
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I do not wish to try to pass myself off as an all-knowing mariner but I'd like to try to instill some focus on the recreational mariner's obligations. |
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Just ask a country-house squire, sometime mariner, recreational vehicle owner or Tour de France dreamer. |
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Merchant mariner Douglass North went from seaman to navigator to winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economics. |
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He began to wonder if his gift might have been a curse: the ancient mariner has 'strange power of speech', but yearns to be relieved of it, restored to insentience and silence. |
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The rhumb line versus great circle path offset becomes a danger only if the mariner has not laid off a great circle course on a Gnomonic chart, ensuring the vessel will pass clear of all navigational dangers. |
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Dr Bhaskaran, though, has shown that thin enough films of the right sort of material can be made to change colour, too. In this section First one up the drive The ancient mariner Going through a phase Whoops! |
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In his own day he was for many a national hero, champion of the cause of true religion against the persecuting Spaniard, a mariner beyond compare, a brilliant leader of men. |
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And when the car is decelerating or braking, the motors work in reverse, as generators, to charge the supercapacitor up again. In this section First one up the drive The ancient mariner Going through a phase Whoops! |
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The reality is that new marine technologies, such as satellite based navigation, offer today's mariner modern efficiencies that lighthouses never could, and these new systems are steadily replacing the need for lights. |
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The mariner must maintain a minimum safe under keel clearance, but has better information about the vessel's under keel clearance and therefore may navigate more safely, while making maximum use of the water column. |
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Rescue Specialists now have the ability to perform advanced levels of emergency medical care in addition to their mariner duties and standard search and rescue skills training. |
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The primary purpose of the Draught Information System is to increase the safety of navigation by providing the mariner with additional information about the under keel clearance. |
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Thus, the mariner will always be able to buy an up to date product. |
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Under the Canada Shipping Act, ship masters and officers are subjected to a mariner competency certification process administered by Transport Canada, designed to assess their competency every five years. |
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These products are updated through new editions, reprints and patches to ensure that all important navigational information is provided to the mariner in a timely manner. |
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And in some cases, especially tankers, it is made possible for a mariner to be accompanied by members of his family. |
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Pytheas was the first documented Mediterranean mariner to reach the British Isles. |
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Pirates of the Atlantic ate much of the same foods as their mainstream mariner cohorts. |
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On Columbus's second voyage, in 1493, de la Cosa was mariner and cartographer on the ship Colina. |
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A mariner with a chronometer could check its reading using a lunar determination of Greenwich time. |
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Cartier, who was a respectable mariner, improved his social status in 1520 by marrying Mary Catherine des Granches, member of a leading family. |
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Another famous mariner and Devonian was Robert Falcon Scott, the leader of the unfortunate Terra Nova Expedition to reach the geographical South Pole. |
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According to one story, the King of Hawaii asked the British mariner, George Vancouver, during a stop in Lahaina, what the piece of cloth flying from his ship was. |
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A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who navigates waterborne vessels or assists as a crewmember in their operation and maintenance. |
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