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a bottle with a note in it was a dire sign indeed.
Going to sea is going to prison, with a chance at drowning besides. —SAMUEL JOHNSON
“The earth was without form and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Whoever wrote that knew the sea—knew the pale emergence of the world every morning, a world that contained absolutely nothing, not one thing.
Finally, you want to avoid the dark of the moon when you plan your trips. No one knows why, but for several days before and after, the fish refuse to feed.
And then there’s the crew. They get ugly at about the same rate as badly iced fish. By the end of a long trip they may be picking fights with one another, hoarding food, ostracizing the new members—acting, in short, like men in prison, which in some ways they are.
Until the break point, a drowning person is said to be undergoing “voluntary apnea,” choosing not to breathe.
