I also missed spotted dog and boiled baby: Patrick O'Brian hath made sailors of us all.
Sooner or later, the other sailors told us, everybody hits a reef in Lake of the Woods.
For the hard-boiled sailors among us the real challenge lay ahead.
Now Captain Ahab is returned, and, having keelhauled the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth mates, he drives us newly into storm-tossed waves, in arctic climes, so that every developer-sailor among us (to say nothing of our financiers in Nantucket) has begun to fear for their career, their sacred honor, and worst of all, the strike price of their stock options.
In the absence of US-Iran dialogue, accidents like [the recent capture of US sailors] could have quickly escalated.
In the absence of US-Iran dialogue, accidents such as [the recent capture of US sailors] could have quickly escalated.
The fact that Revolutionary Guards did not attempt to use the freak arrival in Iranian territorial waters of 10 US sailors with poor navigational skills on Tuesday to slow down or torpedo the deal's implementation points to a pragmatic consensus within the regime as a whole.
The navy maintains US sailors serving in Japan received only small, non-harmful doses of radiation.
Iran's supreme leader has awarded medals to navy commanders for capturing US sailors who entered Iranian territorial waters this month, Iran state media said on Sunday.
Hauled in closer to the American ship, they eventually came into range of snipers and were each killed with a single shot to the head – after US sailors refused an offer to give up their captive in return for their own freedom.
