During their sea voyage, team members will obtain data on marine life, oceanography and meteorology.

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The forward island earlier left Portsmouth Naval Base for its sea voyage to Rosyth, where the ship's final assembly will take place.

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Due to its inaccessibility, only about 1, 500 people a year make the sea voyage to St Kilda, with many of these taking part in working holidays as part of the trust's conservation volunteer programme.

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As a result, only 9 of the 72 migrants who boarded the boat in Tripoli -- supposedly headed for the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa -- survived the 15-day voyage at sea.

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When Christopher Columbus risked his life and that of many others to complete his first voyage across the sea to the unknown, his journey led to a great wealth of knowledge and commerce for Europe.

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Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, is responsible for this voyage to the bottom of the sea, which recovered two huge F-1 engines.

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In it, she conjures sea creatures descended from slaves who drowned during the voyage from Africa, known as the Middle Passage.

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In 1841, Herman Melville set out to sea from the city on the whaling ship Acushnet, returning after an 18-month voyage to eventually write Moby Dick, the tale of Captain Ahab's obsessive search for the great white whale.

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