What book is this?
"Yet not everyone wanted change... [they] regarded shipwrecks as god's bounty to the poor, and were resolutely hostile to any measure that might improve maritime safety"pic.twitter.com/vWEAo6p4nM
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Holy crap literally the last thing I would have expected hahaha.
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found it at green apple yesterday!
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You're the best, haha.
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That’s wild
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The only more delightful history would be that of scurvy and the “treatments” thereof
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19th century sailors were also implacably opposed to the use of lifejackets, despite the efforts a Society established to guarantee their quality and promote their use.
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In a modern-day version, a small trawler sank in the Irish sea, the crew being rescued only because a fisheries inspector was on board - the only man wearing an Emergency Personal Location Beacon (about $300!).
#homosapiens my foot!
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