Wow.
I wanted to join the navy when I was seventeen. I wanted the chance to wave a little blue flag with the letter B on it. I wanted to join the pilot line to the guide hawsers and chock the pulleys.
I could have done it. I could have been a contender. I could have been the ticket man at Fulham Broadway station.
They turned me down.......sigh
Thank gawd!
On a slightly more serious note; yeah, how the hell did they manage all that in any sort of a sea?