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During the episode, viewers saw the culmination of weeks of planning on Sandy's part with help from deckhand Joe Bradley, who was to bring the couple via boat to a romantic beachside locale where Capt. Sandy would pop the question at sunset.
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Gina Ragusa, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024
By the end of the picnic, the deckhands are tired and starving.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 24 June 2024
Sunny feels proud of herself and her first time as a lead deckhand.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 27 May 2024
But perhaps some of them never truly left: an old captain, a young lover, and an angry deckhand.
—Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2024
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Gina Ragusa, EW.com, 24 Sep. 2024
By the end of the picnic, the deckhands are tired and starving.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 24 June 2024
Sunny feels proud of herself and her first time as a lead deckhand.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 27 May 2024
But perhaps some of them never truly left: an old captain, a young lover, and an angry deckhand.
—Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 21 Oct. 2024
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The sole survivor The wreck claimed the lives of 28 of its 29 crewman, leaving only Dennis Hale alive.Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 29 Nov. 2024
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Almost half of the dead were crewmen from the battleship USS Arizona, which sank within minutes after a bomb struck its forward magazine, igniting more than a million pounds of ammunition.Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2024
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Setting things in motion was the dropping off of a drunk seaman at NIS, by a Shore Patrol officer who was in a rush to a hot date and didn’t have time for a proper handoff to the MPs.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 9 Dec. 2024
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According to the Navy, the seaman was born June 15, 1918, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
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In total, 58 of Upton’s shipmates died when the USS Utah quickly sank, and 461 sailors survived.Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
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Svoboda was told the engineers were crucial in keeping the ship from capsizing by counter-flooding the engine room, essentially sacrificing themselves to save as many shipmates and ships around them as possible.Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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The late former president may have served honorably as a sailor, but his instincts as president were to shrink and deprioritize America’s naval forces.Steven Wills, National Review, 11 Jan. 2025
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Despite influencing multiple books and movies, in many ways, the sailors' real-life tale is even more harrowing.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
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When Paris hosted the Games in 1900, a pair of Dutch rowers asked a French boy to be their coxswain.Jenna West, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
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Another Los Gatos boat that claimed silver medals was the Women’s Under 15 Quad-x with a coxswain.Phil Jensen, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
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Based out of smaller home ports such as Greenport on Long Island, the Picket Force flotilla was known informally as the Corsair Fleet or, sometimes, the Hooligan Navy, an unsubtle nod to the ragtag collection of mariners at its core.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Perched atop a windswept bluff, this Victorian Gothic beauty has been guiding mariners since 1890.Cliff Lewis, Orange County Register, 13 Dec. 2024
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Landi and the two remaining seafarers were not so lucky.Atossa Araxia Abrahamian Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
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The volunteers met seafarers from India, the Philippines, Turkey and elsewhere, said Ricard Rodríguez-Martos, a Catholic deacon and former merchant marine captain who leads Stella Maris in this major Mediterranean harbor.Jalal Bwaitel, Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2024
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Success planning provides each student with a navigator who co-creates a unique plan of action with each child, their family, educators, and other caring adults.Libby Schaaf, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
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Other analyses of career navigation programs explain specific elements like the role of career navigators.Bruno V. Manno, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Deckhand.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deckhand. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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