The word "seafaring" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when describing the profession and lifestyle of sailors, who navigate across the oceans. For example: "Once a seafaring man, he had seen many lands and unknown shores."
For seafaring tribes across India this is the reality: backbreaking work for scant reward and being hassled by the authorities while doing it.
But the truth is that the islanders' remoteness and seafaring history have produced a remarkably resourceful culture.
The Dutch, a seafaring nation of traders, have also long imported new and foreign opinions.
During the cold war this strategic imperative drove the Soviet Union to master Arctic seafaring; Russia now has ten polar icebreakers to America's two.
Harvard's Edward Glaeser describes how Boston has done this three times—"in the early 19th century as the provider of seafaring human capital for a far-flung maritime trading and fishing empire, in the late 19th century as a factory town built on immigrant labour and Brahmin capital, and finally in the 20th century as a centre of the information economy".
But successive emperors turned the nation inwards on itself, seafaring was banned and the country's great shipyards were closed.
Simon Young, Pitcairn's deputy mayor, says it has "always been a seafaring nation, protective of its marine environment".
Australia and New Zealand court British health-care professionals, and Australia's navy is believed to be trawling for forcibly retired seafaring Brits.There are several reasons, apart from domestic economic woes, to think that net immigration may well keep decreasing.
The movie rights to his latest book, "Shutter Island", have already been snapped up by Wolfgang Petersen, who directed "Das Boot" and "The Perfect Storm .Certainly "Shutter Island" is as salt-splashed and tempestuous as either of those seafaring epics.
Instead she found nourishment in her substantial record collection (from Bruce Springsteen's "Nebraska" to John Coltrane's "bawling" sax), foreign films and John Gaunt, her only local friend.A seafaring life may be full of suffering, but it is also full of a macho romance that lends a larger sense of destiny to it all.
Seafaring seems to have increased.
