Sailing Superstitions
Sailors think it’s bad luck to set sail on this day.
What is a Friday?
This sunken battleship lies just 40 feet below the surface and entombs most of its crewmen.
What is the USS Arizona?
This is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth.
What is the Mariana Trench?
This water paradise is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?
This commonwealth island country is home to a colony of feral pigs.
What is the Bahamas?
In this strange sea ceremony, pollywogs appear before King Neptune and get initiated into Shellbacks to commemorate this achievement.
What is Crossing the Equator?
This largest of Columbus’ three ships ran aground off the coast of Haiti.
What is the Santa Maria?
This circular string of volcanoes around the edges of the Pacific Ocean are called this.
What is ‘Ring of fire’?
This country boasts the second largest coral reef in the world.
What is Belize?
You’ll find the tiny island nation of The Seychelles in this ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean?
This fruit was purged from boats because it was thought to be so unlucky that it would cause a ship to be lost.
What are Bananas?
(sailors dreaded having to haul shipments of these.)
Many believe the legendary pirate Blackbeard scuttled this flagship of his.
What is ‘Queen Anne’s Revenge’?
Trenches are formed where these types of plates collide.
What are Tectonic Plates?
These reef dwellers often get mistaken for plants.
What are Corals?
(They are animals)
This is the largest island in the Mediterranean.
What is Sicily?
It was thought to bring bad luck to a boat if you trimmed their hair or beard or this.
What are your nails?
The recreation of this infamous ship full of mutineers, sunk because it recklessly sailed into the path of Hurricane Sandy.
What is the HMS Bounty?
This is the name for the southern end of the Mariana Trench which is the deepest part the the earth’s seabed.
What is ‘The Challenger Deep’?
This stunning coral reef lies off Mexico’s Cozumel.
What is Palancar Reef?
This island is home to the world’s most dangerous motorcycle race.
What is the Isle of Man?
In order to encourage fish to be caught, Scottish fishermen would begin their fishing session by throwing this overboard, then hauling it back on the boat again.
What is one of the crew members?
This fictional aging luxury liner overturned in a tsunami.
What is the SS Poseidon?
This is the number of people who have been to the deepest part of the ocean.
What is Three?
The Raja Ampat reef is located of the coast of this archipelagic country.
What is Indonesia?
This group of 74 islands lie between the northeast coast of Australia and the Great Barrier Reef.
What are the Whitsunday Islands?