Comments on: 12/02/14 – Nautical Themes

By: War Pig

War Pig — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 03:58:21 +0000

I’ve been on the sea and on the land. I prefer the land. Fewer things to eat you and we weren’t evolved aquatic. The seas can be fun, though, unless you’re grabbed by a shark, or a barracuda, or a Humboldt squid, or a hungry pinniped, or brush against a jellyfish, or pick up a cone snail in its shell.

I was on a destroyer escort in a cyclone (pacific hurricane). Not a fun experience. We were looking UP at waves as we were on the bridge. Each time the ship would claw its way up the face of a giant wave, the captain would bang his fists on his chair and yell “Climb, ****ammit!”. As we topped the wave the hull of the ship would “oil can” with a tremendous “BANG!”, which made the prospects of drowning appear very real.

I’ll take a tornado on dry land anytime, thank you.I have a safe room in my basement for just such an emergency, and the likelihood of a grizzly bear attacking me in a town in Ohio are very low, almost nonexistent, but sharks are everywhere at sea.

By: Nafisa

Nafisa — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 01:22:43 +0000

I like things of the sea. Mostly things you seen on the shore. Lighthouses, shells etc

By: christopher

christopher — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:12:18 +0000

@Camelama, I’ve read a good number of nautical books, Captain Blood, and The Count Of Monte Christo stand out. But haven’t done any O’Brian. I should give it a go.

@Frith_Ra, Ha! I wonder that sometimes myself. :)

By: Frith Ra

Frith Ra — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:04:19 +0000

Now that I’m old, I sit back in my chair & reminisce about those bygone years of my youth & wonder how the heck I survived some of those stunts.

By: camelama

camelama — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 10:25:27 +0000

do you read the novels of Patrick O’Brian? “Master and Commander”?