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"Whales, porpoises, seals and other **marine** mammals, and even fish, seem to be relatively unaffected, even when they have very large numbers of anisakid worms living in their tissues or stomachs."

"Then, in the 1990s, the **marshes** became a political pawn: former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein drained large areas at least in part to punish the tribes living there, the Marsh Arabs, for participating in anti-government rebellions."

"But I think that it was more than that. While my mother loved Senara, the saint, my father loved her other nature--her life as Asenora, the **mermaid**."

"If you are not a **marine** engineer chances are that you haven’t seen an engine room, for most people avoid the place considering it as an underground dungeon full of dangerous machineries, noise and heat."

"The US **Maritime** Commission today won approval of the National **Maritime** Union, majority union of American seamen, for its seamen training program."