Sailors Share The Creepiest Things They've Seen At Sea

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Feb 7, 2020 12:00 PM EST

Sailors of Reddit share the creepiest and most unexplainable things they've seen on the job. Turns out there is a whole boatload of strange and unsettling sights people come across, while sailing the vast expanse of the sea. When considering the size of an ocean, it's really not that surprising that people come across bizarre sights while sailing. 

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    Text - Posted by u/LordsAndLadies 4 years ago = Sailors of Reddit, what's the weirdest/creepiest thing you've seen at sea?
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    Text - DannyCavalerie 811 points · 4 years ago Probably late to this but whatever. I was working on a car carrier 4 years ago in the Middle East. Our typical route went through pirate waters at times, and so we always picked up 4 ex marines as security in Aqaba, Jordan before we went. One night while we were going through pirate waters off of Yemen we started to have problems with the main engine. So we stopped and had to drift for a bit to figure out what the problem was. During this time I was
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    Text - Beelzabub 55 points · 4 years ago · edited 4 years ago Sailing into Veracruz, Mexico about 2 am. [Trecherous harbor] (http://www.geographicus.com /P/AntiqueMap/WeracruzHarbor-blunt-1809) to enter at night due to the reefs. I'm on the bow pulpit with a a walkie talkie calling out the reefs. I'm also watching a large porpoise in front of the boat, which isn't rare. Just as I call "Reef ahead, starboard 20 degrees", the porpoise makes a slight (about 20 degree) right turn. In a few minutes,
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    Text - [deleted] 769 points · 4 years ago · edited 4 years ago When I was off the coast of Japan in 2007, I watched a whale die. I couldn't tell the gender, but I remember hearing those faint whale cries that you can sometimes hear at night beneath the surface. The moon was full and I could see it on top of the water and I saw other whales passing around it. Do whales have funerals? Because it felt like a vigil or saying goodbye. You could hear the faint puffs of the blowhole spraying out water
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    Text - Atlasnew 6.2k points · 4 years ago I have family who sailed around the world. One day in the North Atlantic, their sailboat was going over some GIGANTIC swells. They didn't have breaks at the top, so it was safe, but the boat was rising and falling way beyond the neutral. At the bottom of a trough my uncle looked up to see the sun behind a wave and the silhouette of a whale inside, above him.
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    Text - zachalicious 30 points · 4 years ago Not me, but my great great grandfather was a merchant ship captain. While traveling from the UK to Nova Scotia, he had a dream about a shipwreck and even dreamt the coordinates and that the 1st mate had to rescue the sailors from the sinking boat. He insisted his ship change their heading, and his whole crew thought he was crazy, but about a day later they did in fact come upon a sinking ship. The 2nd mate ended up injuring his hand while lowering the
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    Text - karusu88 13 points · 4 years ago My dad isn't a sailor. But he lived on a container ship for a year as a surveyor. Once he got his sea legs he began to enjoy the unique lifestyle. From how he tells it, each day he and his colleague would take a smaller boat out to each site they were working on and return before dark. One evening just as the sun was starting to set, the colleague moored the boat while dad hauled the gear back aboard the ship. As he was climbing onto the deck he saw someth
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    Text - HitlerWasASexyMofo 26 points · 4 years ago When I got my first sailboat I took it out on its maiden voyage on a beautiful April day in Hawaii. I was with a much older experienced sailor who was teaching me. About a mile out, we saw a whale, then five, then twenty. They were all around us, and singing the song of the humpback people. We were both terrified, as a whale can and will flip a 30 foot boat like a potato chip. They stayed with us, front-side--back-and below, for about an hour. Th
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    Text - scudponies 3.6k points · 4 years ago This huge turtle as big as a Volkswagen beetle. It went right under our boat. Shit was crazy.
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    Text - 4 years ago · edited 4 years ago Back in December of 2013 I was in the USCG doing a Ozulon85 232 points patrol down by Cuba. We were about 10 NM off shore at about 0300 we could see this light in the shape of a cube gyrating and moving erratically. We had some pretty powerful binoculars and were studying it for the better part of an hour. As it is spinning we could see the reflection of it on the water as well so it was a mile or so off shore. We continued watching it and then it zipped s
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    Text - RVRE 356 points · 4 years ago Finally somewhere I can tell this story, quite possibly the strangest thing I have ever seen in my life: It was about 2 am in the middle of the Atlantic and very dark with no moon. As I was walking up to the bow of our sailboat to inspect the sails, I saw a faint glow in the water a long way off. I stared at the glow a long time before I realized there were actually two glowing objects moving quickly underwater, on a collision course with our boat. Immediatel
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