I'm sure there are Sailors on these forum, unfortunately it seems they are not the talking types. Been in contact with some over the years & found out they sometimes have very interesting stories to tell. Seeing that some of us might never enter a ship till we die, I wouldn't mind if they can come out of hiding and tell us some of the interesting things they have encountered on the high seas and how a sailors life generally looks like.

My brothers from the riverine areas, feel free to chip in your stories. We'll also like to hear them. Na on top rocks Dem born me so ino get stories like that but I'll relate some I've heard.

The awful spirits of the deep

Hold their communion there;

And there are those for whom we weep,

The young, the bright, the fair.

I know a dude who said he was shipwrecked on niger Delta coast for three days and nights, he lost the whole crew but he managed to float on empty jerrycans.

He said the fish had already bit his toes before he was rescued by Navy.

Till the time I met him, he suffers from PTSD, he drinks aromatic schnapps like juice. He doesn't like to sleep alone and he often seem to dream of water creatures because of the nonsense he says in his sleep....

He died of poisoning but people believed he committed suicide.

One consistent story I've heard from 3 different individuals is about strange fishes.

One guy on a trawler says they went deep sea fishing, most of the time they just leave their nets at a shallow, even then they get different types of sea life so they just select what they want and throw the rest back. So one day they set their nets quite deep. On hauling it back to the surface, they encountered unearthly screams coming from the nets. Like it was so loud most of the crew members ran below deck while the rest quickly plugged their ears. After a little deliberation, the captain and this particular individual went to take a peek, Guess what they saw? Fishes with human faces screaming in anger & pain, although distorted but definitely human and it wasn't the typical blob fish we all know. Said they threw everything back & never spoke of it.

Funny thing is I've heard it from both Nigerian sailors and some other foreign forums also. Wonder what's really at the bottom of these oceans. Could it be true?

Cc Voltron14
Alphastyles
Mind if you can share tidbits on life on the sea and other related stuff or refer to those who know?

Spaced booked

Front page material.

This page go dey interesting...make I buy this land

we dey here

I heard Jonah swallow the big fish in the mighty ocean



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could mermaids be real??

There was a time my late grand father told us that he went fishing, as he was fishing he began to hear drum sounds coming out from the sea..it were to be like an occasion going on inside there....Strange things do happen!!!!!

The Lake Baikal Incident.

As reported by Major-General V. Demyanko, commander of the Military Diver Service of the Engineer Forces of the Ministry of Defense, USSR.

During their military training dives in the lake, the frogmen had encountered mysterious underwater swimmers, very human-like, but huge in size (almost three meters in height!) That's like 9.8 feet.

The swimmers were clad in tight-fitting silvery suits, despite icy-cold water temperatures. At the depth of fifty meters, these “swimmers” had neither scuba diving equipment (“aqualungs”), nor any other equipment, only sphere-like helmets concealing their heads.

Well, the local military commander (quite alarmed by such encounters) decided to capture one of the creatures. With that purpose in mind, a special group of seven divers, under the command of an officer, had been dispatched.

As the frogman tried to cover the creature with a net, the entire group was thrown out of the deep waters to the surface by some powerful force. Now, because autonomous equipment of the frogmen does not allow surfacing from such depths without strict adherence to the process of decompression stops, all of the members of the ill-gated expedition were stricken by aeroembolism, of the Caisson disease. The only remedial treatment available consisted of an immediate confinement under decompression conditions in a pressure chamber. They had several such pressure chambers in the military region, but only one in working condition. It could contain no more than two persons.

Hence, local CO out of desperation had forced four frogmen into the chamber in order to save their lives. But sadly three of them (including the leader of the group) perished, and the rest became invalids – terrible consequences caused by the usual Soviet military bungling.

Now for laymen like us, you will wonder why they died and wtf is aero embolism. Well sea diving isn't as simple as potrayed on the TV. There are steps to be taken before descent and ascent. I'll try to break it down in layman language.

Basically, as one goes below certain depths in the sea, the pressure increases,imagine you lying on the ground and they placed a Boeing 747 on your back, adding more as you go deeper. Reason why deep sea divers are not crushed is that they stop regularly at selected points to let their bodies acclimatize to the pressure. This is done when going down or up. Now at this depths some gases like nitrogen which normally will be breathed out along with the rest will instead dissolve into the blood and tissues as inert gases during the period the diver is underwater. As he/she slowly rises up. It goes back to the lung to be breathed out. Imagine a rubber tire placed between two steel flat screens and pumped full of air to the maximum pressure allowed. At that stage only the pressure from the steel screens allows the tire to keep its elastic limit. Now imagine suddenly removing the steel screens. That tire is going to explode See the human as the tire and the steel screens as the sea pressure. Only in this case, the nitrogen becomes active and forms bubbles in the blood and tissues which blocks blood flow and cause damage by stretching, tearing, or pressing on the affected parts. Those Russian divers where forcibly ejected from a great depths to the surface.

This is what they must have looked like, See attached. Literally bursting from the insides.

This is getting interesting. Y'all should jump on it.

Stay tuned. Just discovered one good source

By the way, I'm very sure there are Sailors on NL, Feel free to mention them. We'll love to hear their inputs. Or are they mostly Militants and Pirates . Post with a new monicker if you think your ID would be at risk. Don't die with your knowledge

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There was a time my late grand father told us that he went fishing, as he was fishing he began to hear drum sounds coming out from the sea..it were to be like an occasion going on inside there....Strange things do happen!!!!!

They do. Wish more people visited their rural areas, they might be able to give us a different perspective with the intellectual intelligence they possess. Heard a radio program naming locations and interviewing a woman who's boat capsized on a local river at night and she & her baby got taken by beings living under the water. They only let her live because of the baby and took them back to the surface, the way they were described fitted the mermaid stuff. But we've grown so modern that we summarily dismiss such accounts as hallucinations but unfortunately can't explain facts like rivers that drown only non indigenes, or places /rivers one is warned not cross at night. Those who disobey loose their lives. There's definitely no smoke without a fire.

SKhanmi:


They do. Wish more people visited their rural areas, they might be able to give us a different perspective with the intellectual intelligence they possess. Heard a radio program naming locations and interviewing a woman who's boat capsized on a local river at night and she & her baby got taken by being living under the water. They only let her live because of the baby and took them back to the surface, the way they were described fitted the mermaid stuff. But we've grown so modern that we summarily dismiss such accounts as hallucinations but unfortunately can't explain facts like rivers that drown only non indigenes, or places /rivers one is warned not cross at night. Those who disobey loose their lives. There's definitely no smoke without a fire.

there's a river or lake is better in adegbayi Ibadan which came about following the blasting of rocks for gravel but after it was blasted for long it turned to a lake infact you will be shocked when you see the lake. the first question I asked myself is how come this huge lake came up here. the mystery is that whenever the lake needs a human soul it surely gets it even including someone that I heard always avoid passing near the lake he just decided one day that he need to swim and before people that could stop him will get there he has dove into the lake his corpse was retrieved the 3rd day or there about. it was a young lad that asked him where he was going to and he replied to swim at the lake the boy ran to call elders but it was too late. so it's only the ignorant that will ignore the fact that this world is spiritual

Not for those with hyperactive imagination

https://www.undercurrent.org/blog/2009/09/10/diving-shark-attack/

For those interested in technical diving incidents

https://www.diversalertnetwork.org/diving-incidents/?a=incidentlist

Copied from Archive.4plebs.org

This shit is a common way to get rid of bodies. Sometimes forever

Same anon

Police are your friends

Ok. Some of this stories are scary as f*CK.

From Reddit r/nosleep u/pizznd

Confessions of a deep sea diver Part 1

I think I'm starting to understand why most keep quiet. And the issue of burying drowned corpses besides the river in Nigeria, anybody starting to connect things together? Might not be a meaningless tradition like some claim. Probably has a genuine reason that has been forgotten leaving only the practice.

Keepers of the deep? Who remembers those books by D.O Fagunwa, Igbo olodumare series. I remember reading in one of them about a river dwelling species that captures whoever has the misfortune of capsizing in that area and the innate anger/hatred they have for the humans. Seems like that's a common trend in these stories, the hatred! Wetin una do them? Sushi?

Confessions of a deep sea diver Part 2.
Freaky Ending. Make sure you reread the last 2 so as to fully understand what he was saying.

I'm supposed to mention some monikers from the religion section. The types always looking for hard evidence , but I won't. But if you're reading this, The deep calls to you. This is one less travelled avenue to physically verify some claims.

illicit:
I know a dude who said he was shipwrecked on niger Delta coast for three days and nights, he lost the whole crew but he managed to float on empty jerrycans.

He said the fish had already bit his toes before he was rescued by Navy.

Till the time I met him, he suffers from PTSD, he drinks aromatic schnapps like juice. He doesn't like to sleep alone and he often seem to dream of water creatures because of the nonsense he says in his sleep....

He died of poisoning but people believed he committed suicide.

Just seeing this. That's one helluva experience. It's a pity he never did get over it.

Freaky Ending

See Videos & real pics here of another diver.

https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/3ihsfb/stairs_down_into_the_unknown/

Found a community also, for those who might be interested

Something to lighten things up. Funny stories. Especially when they deceived him a shark was behind him

http://www.indigoscuba.com/funny-diving-moments-it-could-only-happen-to-a-diver/

Another interesting thread on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6tmnow/serious_divers_of_reddit_what_is_your_most/

Confessions of a deep sea diver part 3 FINAL.
Damn! This shit ain't funny at all.

Hmmm. We are not a unique species nor alone on this planet. But some folks will rather believe the disinfo the mainstream feeds them.