No sailor dies at sea? That’s officially confirmed (9)
I believe the answer is:
notarised
'officially confirmed' is the definition.
'notarised' can be an answer for 'confirmed' ('confirmed'->'notarized' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise'). I am not sure about the 'officially' bit.
'no sailor dies at sea?' is the wordplay.
'sailor' becomes 'tar' (term for a sailor).
'at sea?' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'at sea' mean this).
'dies' anagrammed gives 'ised'.
'no'+'tar'+'ised'='NOTARISED'
'that's' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for notarised that I've seen is " Authenticated".)