
The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to know
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Pirates of the Caravean - Is That True?
i like to think that sea monsters are a concept of mermaids, especially am. If you've ever seen dolphins going alongside a ship or a yacht at night time, sometimes you get the phosphorescence with all the the light coming off the water. And then alve see, you bring into it things like mermaids or sirens. There is a lot of superstition and myth at sea,. even to this day, things like not beingable to take bananas on board. I mean, we don't know. Maybe there's a crackin out there in the middle of the atlantic somewhere, just waiting, absolutely terrifying.
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