Maritime Facts

There was once an undersea post office in the Bahamas.

There are numerous sailors' superstitions, such as: it is considered bad luck for a ship to set sail on a Friday, to bring anything green aboard, to stick a knife into the deck, to leave a hatch cover upside-down, or to say the word "pig" aboard.

No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.

Violet Jessop was on the RMS Olympic when it collided with a warship. She survived. She was on the Titanic when it hit an iceberg. She survived. She was on the Britannic when it hit a mine. She survived. Three sister ships, three disasters, one woman on all of them. She kept going back to sea. Died at 83 — on dry land.