SeafarersWeek Quiz: Press Release from Coracle

News Release Coracle Online Ltd June 19, 2012

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from Seafarers UK
offers 
fun quiz for children
in support of 
Seafarers Awareness
Week (25 June - 1 July)
 
Leading maritime welfare charity, Seafarers UK, is
calling on citizens of Britain to ‘remember a seafarer’ for Seafarers Awareness
Week (25 June - 1 July) <A
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Seafarers UK provides annual grants of £2.5m to
support seafarers in need, from across the Merchant Navy, Fishing Fleets, Royal
Navy and Royal Marines, and their families. The charity’s message to the British
public is clear:  Gone are the days when most families knew at least one
person who worked at sea, either in a merchant vessel, on a fishing boat, or
serving in the Royal Navy. But no one in the UK lives more than 70 miles from
the coast and 95% of imports come by ship.
 
As an island nation we absolutely depend on seafarers
and the work they do 24/7, 365 days a year. We rely on imported fuel for our
power stations, our hospitals and our cars. More than half of our food is
imported – and almost all of that (95%) comes by sea.
 
75% of the UK’s exports leave by ship, including
luxury cars for the Chinese who, in return, load container ships with many of
the products – clothing, electronic goods, toys, etc - that we see on sale in
shops and supermarkets. But, like the seemingly never-ending supply of all those
goods, our imported food and essential fuel, do we as a nation now take
seafarers for granted, asks Seafarers UK?
 
Seafarers Awareness Week embraces the international
Day of the Seafarer on 25 June, during which time people are being asked to
‘remember a seafarer’. This could be a relation, friend or shipmate of any age
or service, currently working at sea, retired or from the past. Personal stories
can be added at <A
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The Seafarers Week Quiz: <A
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target=_blank>Seafarersweek.CoracleQuiz.com</A> is intended to be a fun
way of engaging the nations younger generation by asking them maritime related
questions.  James Tweed, Managing Director of Coracle says, “All of us at
Coracle were thrilled to have an opportunity to work on tailoring our quiz
software to help Seafarers UK engage with people who otherwise may not see a
need to think about what maritime means to them. Raising awareness of the role
that the sector plays is something that we are committed
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