Red Sea tourist boat sinking: Survivors tell BBC of terrifying escapes
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What's that light on the horizon?
You should sea this campaign! (But seriously, the Sea Creature of the Day is life.)
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Out here making a-spec, trans, and polyamorous waves while telling gentle sea stories - interested?
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LAST 40 HOURS - AND I'M OUT ON THE COURT UNTIL 6K - EXTRA SWEATY
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This is one of my favorite sea stories.
There was this sailor who walked around on the deck of a ship, picking up any piece of paper he found and looking at it seriously for a moment. He would then toss it, saying barely audibly, “That’s not it.”
He was counseled about it by his Chief, and when the Chief handed him the paperwork to sign for the counseling, he looked at the paper a moment and said, “that’s not it.” and threw it to the deck.
Flustered, the Chief sent the sailor to the sick bay to see the Doc, and the Doc checks him out. He pulls out the Rorscharch test cards to see what the young sailor had to say he saw, and every card just caused the young sailor to shake his head and say, “That’s not it.”
The Doc talked to the Captain, and the Captain decided to have him go to see Psych when they got back to shore, confining the sailor to quarters for the interim. Months later, the same thing played out on shore at Psych. “That’s not it.”, over and over again.
Finally the Navy decided to discharge him, so he went to the Personnel Department where they had his discharge papers. The Yeoman pushed them across the desk, telling the sailor to read and sign.
The sailor diligently read the pages, nodded, and said, “That’s it!”.
He whipped out a pen and signed the paperwork.
He was stoic, and held out for what he wanted – and got it.
https://realityfragments.com/2024/05/17/the-thats-not-it-sea-story/
As a young non-commissioned officer, this was one of my favorites not because it pulled rank, but because it pointed out accepting reality is necessary. A Master Chief told me this and it stuck – I was trying to buck the system somehow, as if the system would suddenly change because of my wishes. I was, of course, wrong, but that’s part of being a young NCO.
He looked at me, deadpan, after a moment of silence, and asked me, “Do you know what the size of a sperm whale’s throat is?”.
I, of course, didn’t know.
He held up his hands palm outward, his thumbs and forefingers from each hand touching, and pushed them out toward me. “This big. Do you know why?”
“No Masterchief”
He pushed his hands out at me with every word, and said slowly and firmly, “Because that’s the way it is.”
And verily, that was the way it was. Petty Officer Rampersad wasn’t going to change it by himself. Better to accept it and move on.
There’s some wiggle room here. We should question things at times, buts sometimes we don’t have the luxury of time for navel-gazing, particularly in the military, so sometimes you just accept that things are the way they are and move on. If it’s not a hill you want to die on, don’t.
https://realityfragments.com/2024/05/17/the-sperm-whale-throat-sea-story/
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