* Matt Orford – Former NRL halfback, 2008 Dally M medal winner, 2008 Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles premiership captain

* Captain Nemo, captain of the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Mysterious Island ( 1870 )

A Genoese commercial boat captain, which was conducting acts of piracy alongside commercial activity, was able to capture the young prince and take him over to Phocaea on the Aegean Sea, which was under Genoese rule.

* March 12 – Richard Roberts, ship's captain perished while in command of the SS President ( famous quote: I'd Go to Sea in a Bathtub ) ( b. 1803 )

Another legend claims that following the Navigation Acts ( an ordinance by Oliver Cromwell requiring all foreign fleets in the North Sea or the Channel to dip their flag in salute ) the Wilhelmus was sung ( or rather, shouted ) by the sailors on the Dutch flagship Brederode in response to the first warning shot fired by an English fleet under Robert Blake, when their captain Maarten Tromp refused to lower his flag.

The Dutch captain Maarten Gerritsz Vries in the Breskens entered the Sea of Okhotsk from the south-east in 1643, and charted parts of the Sakhalin coast and Kurile Islands, but failed to realize that either Sakhalin or Hokkaido are islands.

In Peter and the Starcatchers, which takes place before the captain meets Peter Pan, Hook is called " Black Stache " because of his moustache, and his ship is called the Sea Devil-he obtains the Jolly Roger after using a corset-shaped sail to attack a British ship named the Wasp.

The War of Jenkins ' Ear ( named for a 1731 incident in which a Spanish commander chopped off the ear of English merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, George II ) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to the Caribbean Sea and conflict between Spanish Florida and the neighboring British Province of Georgia.

To help thwart the plots of the Spanish Ambassador at the Court of Queen Elizabeth, William the Silent enlisted one Willem Janszoon van Hoorn, the captain of the Sea Beggar, to pretend to accept a bribe from the Spanish Ambassador and enter into a conspiracy to surprise the English garrison at Flushing.

Taking a more adventurous tack, 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( 1916 ) is a film based on Jules Verne ’ s famous novel of a wondrous submarine and its vengeful captain.

At about 06: 50, and south of Playa Larga, Houston was damaged by several rockets from a Sea Fury and a T-33, and about 2 hours later captain Luis Morse intentionally beached it on the western side of the bay.

Samuel Argall was the captain of one of the seven ships of the Third Supply which had arrived at Jamestown in 1609 after becoming separated from the Sea Venture, whose fate was unknown.

Sea captain Robert Drummond was the master of the Speedy Return ; his brother Thomas, who had played such a part in the second expedition, was supercargo on the vessel.

Trippe was born in Sea Bright, New Jersey, on June 27, 1899, the great-great-grandson of Lieutenant John Trippe, captain of the.

The Trade Division was abolished in 1909 in the wake of the Committee of Imperial Defence inquiry into the feud between the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir John Fisher and former Commander-in-Chief Channel Fleet, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, when it was discovered that the captain heading the Trade Division had been supplying the latter with confidential information during the inquiry.

* Robert Bennet Forbes, Sea captain, China merchant, ship owner, and writer.

* In the 1899 novelette " Typhoon " by Joseph Conrad, the captain is transporting a group of coolies in the South China Sea.

Luke was the leader of a tribe of mice who lived an idyllic life for many seasons until Vilu Daskar, the murderous captain of the pirate ship Goreleech, attacked the settlement and killed Sayna, as well as many others with his Sea Rogues.

The 2007 music video for the song Dashboard by indie group Modest Mouse features a sea captain telling the story of how he lost his hand to a giant fish while sailing in Sargasso Sea.

) in 2007, and the appointment of a captain, CSC now stands for Captain Sea Cadets.

Another adaptation was The Flying Dutchman on Tappan Sea by Washington Irving ( 1855 ), in which the captain is named Ramhout van Dam.

His younger brother Robert Moresby was also a distinguished maritime surveyor and captain of the British Royal Navy, who surveyed the Red Sea and the complex Indian Ocean atoll groups of the Maldive and Chagos Archipelagos.

In 1648, during the Civil War, while serving as a captain in the navy of the English Parliament, he prevented the fleet from defecting to the Royalists, and was promoted to General at Sea.

When Jones attacks the Empress, Feng, mortally wounded, hands over his " piece of eight " to Elizabeth and names her as captain and Pirate Lord of the South China Sea, mistakenly believing she is the sea goddess, Calypso.

Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and named it Mar del Sur ( South Sea ).

* Antarctic explorer James Clark Ross additionally discovers the Ross Sea, Victoria Land and Mount Terror.

* August 26 – Uyedineniya Island is discovered in the Kara Sea by Norwegian explorer Captain Edvard Holm Johannesen.

* August – English explorer Richard Chancellor enters the White Sea and reaches Arkhangelsk, going on to the court of Ivan IV of Russia, opening up trade between England and Russia.

The Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge have since all been ( posthumously ) named in honour of the explorer.

The British explorer Captain James Cook later extensively navigated the Tasman Sea in the 1770s as part of his first voyage of exploration.

His roles include Brutus in Julius Caesar ( 1953 ), Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel and The Desert Rats, the amoral valet turned spy in Joseph Mankiewicz's 5 Fingers, the declining actor in the first remake of A Star Is Born ( 1954 ), Captain Nemo in 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea ( also 1954 ), a small town school teacher driven insane by the effects of cortisone in Bigger Than Life ( 1956 ), a suave master spy in North by Northwest ( 1959 ), a determined explorer in Journey to the Center of the Earth ( also 1959 ), Humbert Humbert in Stanley Kubrick's Lolita ( 1962 ), a river pirate who betrays Peter O ' Toole's character in Lord Jim ( 1965 ), the evil Doctor Polidori in Frankenstein: The True Story ( 1973 ), the vampire's servant, Richard Straker, in Salem's Lot, and surreal Royal Navy Captain Hughes in Yellowbeard ( 1983 ).

* Sir John Franklin ( 1786-1847 ) – British explorer, surveyed the coast of the Polar Sea between 1819 and 1824 ; died on his final Arctic expedition in 1845.

The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, having found his way around the Cape and obtained pilots from the coast of Zanzibar in 1497 CE, pushed his way across the Indian Ocean to the shores of Malabar and Calicut, attacked the fleets that carried freight and Muslim pilgrims from India to the Red Sea, and struck terror into the potentates all around.

The Laptev Sea had been originally named " Nordenskiöld Sea " (), after this Arctic explorer.

On this expedition, Nares became the first explorer to take his ships all the way north through the channel between Greenland and Ellesmere Island — now named Nares Strait in his honor — to the Lincoln Sea.

Scientists and explorers include, doctors N. Bogoraz and S. Fedosov, scientists Dmitri Mendeleev, A. S. Popov, L. P. Pavlov, George Sedov the Arctic Sea explorer, Yakov Frenkel ( 1894 – 1952 ) a solid-state physicist, Svyatoslav Fyodorov ( 1927 – 2000 ), ophthalmologist, Sabina Spielrein ( 1885 – 1942 ), psychoanalyst.

* Doordarshan brought to the Indian viewers geographical documentaries made by the great marine explorer Jacques Cousteau ( Secrets of the Sea ) and the British naturalist David Attenborough ( The Living Planet )

The sea is named after the Russian explorers Dmitry Laptev and Khariton Laptev ; formerly, it had been known under various names, the last being Nordenskjold Sea (), after explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld.

Mouth of the Hokianga Harbour ; the Tasman Sea to the left, Hokianga Harbour to the rightAccording to Te Tai Tokerau tradition, Kupe, the legendary Polynesian navigator and explorer, settled in Hokianga in approximately 925 AD, after his journey of discovery from Hawaiiki aboard the waka ( canoe ) named Matahorua.

* Richard W Richards ( 1893 – 1985 ), Australian explorer with Ross Sea Party 1914-17

* Richard W Richards, 1893-1985, Australian explorer with Ross Sea Party 1914-17, aka Dick Richards

At 15 years of age, Sven Hedin witnessed the triumphal return of the Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld after his first navigation of the Northern Sea Route.

When he was 15 years old Sven Hedin witnessed the triumphal return of the Swedish Arctic explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld after his first navigation of the Northern Sea Route.

* Free Territory of Freedomland, a former country declared by Filipino explorer Tomás Cloma on a group of islands in the South China Sea.

During a voyage across the Barents Sea in search of the North East Passage in 1553, English explorer Hugh Willoughby thought he saw islands to the north, and islands called Willoughby's Land were shown on maps published by Plancius and Mercator in the 1590s and they continued to appear on maps by Jan Janssonius and Willem Blaeu into the 1640s.

When Russian explorer Ivan Moskvitin reached the Sea of Okhotsk in 1639, further exploration was impeded by the lack of skills and equipment to build sea-going ships and by the harsh land to the northeast inhabited by the warlike Koryak people.

In 1651, after having assisted in the foundation of the Anadyrsk ostrog, explorer Mikhail Stadukhin went south and followed the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk from Penzhina Bay to Okhotsk.