It’s hard to drown in jail.

Yesterday’s trawl brought in an interesting fish. Old friend Charles dropped by and enjoyed our video of the HMS Victory, rendered in animated form. In the comments, he upped the ante. Check out this amazing video of sailing around the horn on a four-masted barque in 1928. It’s narrated by the man who made it. It dwells in a land beyond amazing, really.

Towards the end, the narrator recounts an incident. The captain of the ship saw a sailor swept overboard. He ran to the stern of the ship, grabbed a line, and threw himself into the sea. That sea. As the sailor swept by, he grabbed him by his hair. Then some of the crew pulled them on board, the captain holding the line with one hand, and the guy’s hair in the other. Now get this: he did it twice. And he hushed it up, because he wasn’t supposed to leave the ship for any reason, and didn’t want to get into trouble.

By gahd we’re all nancy boys compared to our grandparents.