I Can Only Imagine Being A Sailor Before Advancement In Ship Technology

[Louisville Slugz]

 

[UncleTomFord15]

I think about this all the time. Also thought about how people hundreds/thousands of years ago people reacted to hurricanes/tornadoes. They legit probably thought the world was ending. Even with all the technology and preventative measures we have today over 100 people still died in hurricane Ian last year. Imagine how many native Americans got packed up when hurricanes used to his the America's back in the day.

 

[Fill Collins]

I'd be worried about pirates, and not the criminal kind either, at least outside Uganda

 

[Zandía]

That icy water looks ominous AF

 

[TRUEST]

The promise of new mysterious puccy in faraway lands was a motivating factor for a lot of sailors back then.

 

[42 Monks]

the ocean at night is probably the scariest 'normal' shyt on the planet

 

[Haliax]

Have sailex before but i couldnt tell you the entire truth of it, besides that typo.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

the ocean at night is probably the scariest 'normal' shyt on the planet

It’s beautiful to me… peaceful

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Madagascar was originally settled by people from Indonesia over a thousand years ago. That's why everyone there speaks a Polynesian-origin language and looks Blasian. They think their ancestors might have been a single refugee boat that got knocked off course and crossed the entire Indian Ocean for 6 months or more. Imagine leaving your home, drifting through the ocean for 5,000 miles, and then ending up adjacent to a completely different continent where you start a new life with all sorts of animals and plants that you've never seen before.


Or look at Easter Island. It's a tiny island just 14 miles long and 7 miles wide, way out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Most remote inhabited island in the world, there isn't another inhabited island for over 1,200 miles in any direction. That shyt was settled over 800 years ago....can you imagine traveling for thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean to land on this tiny-ass place in the middle of nowhere, the only animals are fish and seabirds, and you decide to stay there and raise your people for hundreds of years?

 

[OneManGang]

Being in the middle of the ocean during a storm is scary shyt NOW. I can’t even imagine the balls it took to be a sailor for the vast majority of human history.

Look into rogue waves and somehow even scarier rogue troughs

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

 

[General Mills]

the ocean at night is probably the scariest 'normal' shyt on the planet

Facts!

When I was in the Navy frequently I would go out onto the fantail at night and look at the ocean.

It is beautiful but also inherently dangerous. Also it’s like it beckons you to come on in but you know once you do it got you

I always got the feeling something ominous is lurking just underneath the waves looking dead at me like

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Madagascar was originally settled by people from Indonesia over a thousand years ago. That's why everyone there speaks a Polynesian-origin language and looks Blasian. They think their ancestors might have been a single refugee boat that got knocked off course and crossed the entire Indian Ocean for 6 months or more. Imagine leaving your home, drifting through the ocean for 5,000 miles, and then ending up adjacent to a completely different continent where you start a new life with all sorts of animals and plants that you've never seen before.


Or look at Easter Island. It's a tiny island just 14 miles long and 7 miles wide, way out in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Most remote inhabited island in the world, there isn't another inhabited island for over 1,200 miles in any direction. That shyt was settled over 800 years ago....can you imagine traveling for thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean to land on this tiny-ass place in the middle of nowhere, the only animals are fish and seabirds, and you decide to stay there and raise your people for hundreds of years?

Well they probably considered the chance of death or other failure to be quite high on a return mission so they stayed. If they dont know calculation error there was on their route they wouldnt make it back except by chance. Supplies were probably very limited as well.

The first example of Madagascar would be frightening at first but also dope as hell. Finding a totally new world and settling it with comrades would be like manna from heaven for some people back then and even today...though I doubt many of the modern men have the survival techniques required

 

[Lieutenant Daniels]

That icy water looks ominous AF

Ironically water gives life but that shyt right there look like it’s only purpose is to drain your life force

 

[The Half-Blood FKA Prince]

I'd be worried about pirates, and not the criminal kind either, at least outside Uganda

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