Sailor's tongue
SOS is the universal distress signal — but sailors use this spoken word equivalent over radio.
What is Mayday
This is the most populated harbor city in Europe, home to over 13 million people in its greater metro area
What is London?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This actor played Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean.
Who is Johnny Depp?
This is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth.
What is the blue whale?
A nautical mile per hour is measured in this unit.
What is knot
Sydney is home to Australia's most famous harbor — roughly how many people call it home?
What is ~6 million
The world's second longest river, the Amazon, flows through this country before emptying into the Atlantic.
What is Brazil?
In this animated Disney film, a young girl stows away on a boat and is guided by the stars on a voyage across the Pacific.
What is Moana?
A dolphin is not a fish, it belongs to this animal group.
What is a mammal?
This is the term for the right-hand side of a ship when facing forward.
What is Starboard
The largest industrial harbour in the world measured in number of containers handled
What is Shanghai
The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean Sea to this body of water, cutting sailing time between Europe and Asia dramatically.
What is the Red Sea?
This actor played the role of a stranded sailor in both Cast Away (2000) and Captain Phillips (2013).
Who is Tom Hanks?
This fish is known for its long migration travel - sometimes thousands of kilometers.
What is (Atlantic) salmon?
This many Sailing diciplines are represented at the olympics
What is 10
Inhabitants of this harbor city in South america are called Porteños — meaning 'people of the port'
What is Buenos Aires
This is the name of the point where the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meet at the southern tip of South America.
What is Cape Horn?
In Titanic, Jack wins his ticket aboard the ship in a game of this.
What is Poker?
In 2012, Hollywood director James cameron became only the third person to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep solo. How many people have reached it as of April 2026 (12, 22, 27 or 35)
What is 27?
A sailor's unit of water depth, equal to six feet.
What is a fathom
Cape Town's harbor sits beneath this famous flat-topped mountain.
What is Table Mountain?
This country has the longest coastline in the world.
What is Canada?
In Finding Nemo, Nemo is taken from the Great Barrier Reef and ends up in a fish tank in this city.
What is Sydney?
This is the name for the very top layer of the ocean where most fish and marine life live.
What is the sunlight zone?