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Across 51 tanker vessels, 575 merchant seafarers filled out stress and work surveys that showed personal resilience did the most to reduce strain, while practical onboard help explained most of the gap in job satisfaction across a global fleet

Life at sea puts a crew inside the same workplace for months, often far from family, with demanding schedules and little privacy. A 2019 Frontiers in Psychology study asked 575 merchant seafarers on 51 tanker vessels about stress, resilience, support and job satisfaction, then used structural equation modeling to see which factors carried the strongest…

Black and white photo of a boat crew onboard a fishing vessel titled 'El Principe Azul.'

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One hundred fifty-seven Faroese fishers wore sleep trackers at sea and on land and life offshore split sleep into shorter fragments, pushed end-of-trip sleepiness higher and left more major reaction-time lapses before the voyage was over

A cargo ship carrying goods between ports

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More than 13,000 seafarers from 154 nationalities reported high wellbeing and happiness at sea, yet the same global survey found about one in five felt lonely and two-thirds did not get enough sleep, revealing where shipboard life still wears people down

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10 US states with the most lakes

The United States holds an astonishing range of lakes, from tundra basins in Alaska to warm, shallow water in Florida. This ranking highlights ten states whose published totals stand out. It also reveals a basic problem with any lake-count comparison: each state decides which water bodies belong in its tally. The result is a portrait…

Laforge-1 hydroelectric reservoir and power station in northern Quebec

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10 largest man-made lakes in Canada

From orbit, several of Canada’s biggest reservoirs can look like natural inland seas. Their long shorelines and branching bays hide a more recent story. Dams, dikes and diversions raised water across river valleys and lowlands to create storage for hydroelectric systems that serve communities far beyond the north. Engineers selected basins where large flows could…

Aerial view of a tranquil rocky island in Lake Ladoga, Karelia, Russia under a blue sky

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10 largest lakes in Europe

Europe’s biggest inland waters gather across a broad northern arc, where ice sheets once pressed into the land and major rivers later became routes for dams. The scale is easy to miss from shore. Lake Ladoga alone covers about 17,700 square kilometers, an expanse larger than many people picture when they hear the word lake.…

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