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

[Professor Emeritus]

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.

So was it a suicide mission? A shipwreck? How did they find that tiny-ass island in the middle of nowhere in the Pacific? If they had missed Easter Island, would they have just kept floating all the way to Ecuador? They had chickens and all their agricultural plants, so it seemed like they were well prepared to settle. Their oral tradition claims the island was scouted out first before being moved to, but it also claims the chief was told about the island in a dream, so hard to say how much of the story is reliable.

Either way, the residents came in canoes either from the Gambier Islands (1,600 miles away) or the Marquesas Islands (2,000 miles away), which a fukking wild distance to travel on a canoe in the ocean.

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

Yeah, it would have been a full on science fiction series. They built an entire civilization on an untouched island in a completely different continent than they had ever known.

I looked it up and saw that the single-population shipwreck theory is just one theory about how Madagascar was settled. There are opposing theories that believe it was settled by multiple waves of Indonesians who already knew about the island and were involved in trade routes back and forth. Which would be fukking wild in itself, because who does 5,000 mile trade routes across entire oceans in outrigger canoes?

 

[skylove4]

I watched a BBC doc on Rogue Waves on Youtube during Quarantine and Ive been fascinated by the subject ever since

Whats crazy is that sailors have been talking about them for ages, but before steel hulled ships they would take the old wooden vessels straight down with no survivors to tell the tale, and even after sinking the Munchen in the 70's (they still haven't found the wreck ) science still dismissed them as fisherman's tale until they finally measured one that hit an oil rig in the 90's

A couple months ago one struck a cruise ship near Antarctica and killed somebody The ocean really is terrifying

That 85ft one that hit the rig was scary but the 42 ft one seems scarier. The waves were already crazy high before the 85ft wave so you would already be on guard and not in the water but the ones going from 3ft to 42ft would be terrifying because that could catch you slipping bad

 

[AAKing23]

shyt look like the waters the USS Terror got trapped in

 

[VoxSphere74]

You ever watch “The Bounty” about the famous mutiny by Fletcher Christian in Tahiti?

Good movie and story.

William Bligh tried to go go Tahiti from England by sailing around Cape Horn on the southern tip of South America in 1787.

It was so dangerous it almost killed everyone and they had to take the route the other way by South Africa.

Long story but later after the mutiny Bligh managed to sail something like 3000 miles with nothing but a compass to safety on some Dutch island in the South Pacific. I forgot all the details tho.

Basically it's a movie about cac sailors overthrowing their captain because they refused to give up their PAAGs and go back home.

 

[Remote]

Basically it's a movie about cac sailors overthrowing their captain because they refused to give up their PAAGs and go back home.

Kind of.
Lol

 

[Zime]

being a pirate or some shyt was prob dope as fukk

Discovering treasure and shyt

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

Luckily ships are damn near impossible to sink today

 

[Gritsngravy]

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

You was about to jump in the ocean, what u think was calling u
Sounds like a mermaid story old sailors talked about

 

[Vandelay]

Imagine seeing a storm/hurricane coming from 50 miles away, and not being able to steer away from it fast enough.

 

[General Mills]

You was about to jump in the ocean, what u think was calling u
Sounds like a mermaid story old sailors talked about

I am not a huge believer in magical shyt. But.. there is something eerie about the ocean at night when you are on a ship and you look out and all you see is dark waves.

The old tales about sirens luring sailors does not seem all that far fetched to me. The water looks so inviting and peaceful. Then when you shake off whatever semi trance you are in you are


In the Navy they used to drill into us that if you fell overboard there is a high chance nobody would see it and you are basically dead.


If you are on a bigger ship like a carrier even if somebody saw you the amount of time it would take the carrier to turn around you still might be dead.


We had a guy on our ship who faked his death. We were not far off the coast of Italy. He somehow ended up in the water. We looked for his ass for a long time and assumed he was RIP.


He had family in Italy. They were waiting on him and scooped him out of the water. He was living in Italy with his new wife. The cac smooth left his wife and kids in the states and they assumed he was dead. The navy thought he was dead. He only slipped up cause he cheated on his new wife and she told

 

[BigBlackSea]

Imagine seeing a storm/hurricane coming from 50 miles away, and not being able to steer away from it fast enough.

Or you end up overboard

 

[Astroslik]

I am not a huge believer in magical shyt. But.. there is something eerie about the ocean at night when you are on a ship and you look out and all you see is dark waves.

The old tales about sirens luring sailors does not seem all that far fetched to me. The water looks so inviting and peaceful. Then when you shake off whatever semi trance you are in you are


In the Navy they used to drill into us that if you fell overboard there is a high chance nobody would see it and you are basically dead.


If you are on a bigger ship like a carrier even if somebody saw you the amount of time it would take the carrier to turn around you still might be dead.


We had a guy on our ship who faked his death. We were not far off the coast of Italy. He somehow ended up in the water. We looked for his ass for a long time and assumed he was RIP.


He had family in Italy. They were waiting on him and scooped him out of the water. He was living in Italy with his new wife. The cac smooth left his wife and kids in the states and they assumed he was dead. The navy thought he was dead. He only slipped up cause he cheated on his new wife and she told

Any stories about fellow navy men throwing people
Overboard?

 

[General Mills]

Any stories about fellow navy men throwing people
Overboard?

Surprisingly no. You would think that it happens all the time. Young sailors. Hotheads. I have personally never heard it it happening

There were plenty of beefs and fights. I’ve never heard of it escalating to somebody getting thrown overboard. I guess it’s because for the most part it’s murder.