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A sailing vessel is traveling along on an ocean voyage when it reaches a band of calm air that significantly curtails its movement The vessel is caught in?
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a doldrum Sailors use the expressions " in irons " and " becalmed ", especially when the mighty sailing ships of yesteryear were in the Horse Latitudes of the Atlantic and Pacific. Everyday modern usage of the word " doldrum(s)" is used to describe a person(s) being in a depression or listless, lethargic, non-energetic, rather than to describe ships.
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