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WSF estimates it needs to fill nearly 100 deck officer and able-bodied seaman positions each year in perpetuity.

She’ll start as an able-bodied seaman and progress to mate and then captain.

R/V Thompson able-bodied seaman signals the crane operator to lower the revised hadal lander into the water.

As for the lads’ teasing, why, be a bit hard of hearing, and before many years, I warrant, you’ll be having Willy aboard ship as boy, when you’re an able-bodied seaman.”

His experience in the fishing boats was useful to him now, and he was soon able to do his work as an able-bodied seaman.