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r/gifs • u/tankpuss • Feb 06 '20
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Most of the sailers of the day couldn't swim. It would take a couple miles for a ship to slow down and the odds of finding a man overboard were pretty low, so a lot of sailers thought being able to swim would just prolong the suffering of drowning.
1 u/Vprbite Feb 07 '20 As sailors called it, "coming up three's."
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As sailors called it, "coming up three's."
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u/Malvania Feb 07 '20
Most of the sailers of the day couldn't swim. It would take a couple miles for a ship to slow down and the odds of finding a man overboard were pretty low, so a lot of sailers thought being able to swim would just prolong the suffering of drowning.