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Have you ever been at sea?

Posted - September 29, 2020
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  • 19937
    I have been on a cruise.
      September 29, 2020 5:22 PM MDT
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  • 44619
    Awesome.
      September 29, 2020 5:23 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    It was a wonderful experience.  I loved every minute of it up to the point where we were coming back down from Sitka and in open waters and I made the mistake of looking out the porthole and got seasick.  I immediately went to the infirmary and they gave me some pills which worked like a charm and I enjoyed the rest of the trip.
      September 30, 2020 12:52 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    Only on a cruise, that was enough to last a lifetime. 
      September 29, 2020 5:23 PM MDT
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  • 53509


      Yes, I proudly served three straight years of sea duty as a US Marine on Western Pacific Deployments aboard various ships of the US Third Fleet and the US Seventh Fleet. Semper Fi, Shipmate!



    ~

      September 29, 2020 6:17 PM MDT
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  • 44619
    Doesn't get any better than that. Anchors aweigh.
      September 29, 2020 7:08 PM MDT
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  • 53509

     

      My years of Marine Corps service have been the best ones of my life.
    ~

      September 29, 2020 7:25 PM MDT
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  • 11005
    I have been deep sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.
      September 29, 2020 6:41 PM MDT
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  • 16791
    Open water fishing, but never out of sight from land (except when it got a little rough, and the waves were higher than line-of-sight). Drifting between Box Head and Lion Island, you can't miss. Trevally and Snapper mostly, unless the little school sharks (hammerheads) have chased them away, so you catch those instead.
      September 29, 2020 6:45 PM MDT
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  • 7792
    Nope. I've only gotten as far as a harbor.
      September 29, 2020 7:02 PM MDT
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  • 10052
    Briefly, a few times. 
      September 29, 2020 7:25 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    Yep
    sailed the Seas
    in the US Navy
      September 30, 2020 7:44 AM MDT
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  • 13395
    Nine years serving on ships of the Canadian Navy based in Halifax NS. Also spent a year with the Canadian Coast Guard.
      September 30, 2020 8:19 AM MDT
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  • 3719
    Yes, but nothing as illustrious as Naval or Mercantile service!

    Just as a passenger on public ferries across the English Channel and North Sea - one cross-Channel trip by hovercraft rather than conventional ship.

    And much less conventionally, coastal cruises on the preserved paddle-steamer Waverley. This is the world's only sea-going paddle-steamer, and it was noticeable how much interest she attracts from crew-members on other ships, photographing us cruising majestically past. One excursion took us into the Royal Naval base at Portsmouth, where due to the rather constricted basin a tug had to help turn the Waverley. As soon as that had completed the move, its crew all leapt for their cameras or 'phones! This post was edited by Durdle at November 18, 2020 3:08 PM MST
      November 18, 2020 3:02 PM MST
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