seaworthiness
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To complicate matters, a long-lost sibling, also a pirate with his own troubling history, is here to judge the crew’s seaworthiness.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025
Witnesses also claimed that the Sea Story boat had undergone structural modifications that may have compromised its seaworthiness.
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025
Lochridge disagreed with OceanGate about the best way to demonstrate the asset’s seaworthiness, and objected to OceanGate’s decision to perform dives without prior “non-destructive testing” to the vessel’s hull to prove its integrity.
From Scientific American • Jun. 22, 2023
The second vessel was in precarious state of seaworthiness, and three cargo ships and a patrol boat from EU border agency Frontex helped with the rescue, the coast guard said in a statement.
From Reuters • Mar. 23, 2023
In capacity, speed, maneuverability, and seaworthiness, those Eurasian ships were far superior to the rafts that carried out trade between the New World’s most advanced societies, those of the Andes and Mesoamerica.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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