Equator Crossing Ceremony: The Real Test Of Seafarers

I remember going back to my cabin at 1200 hrs after completing some important deck work. As is with all cadets, sleep is the all-engulfing element that overpowers the necessity to change one’s boiler suit and go in for a shower! Obviously enough, my urge to sleep took the better of me and I dozed off for I would have to go and assist the Chief Mate in is watch in a few hours. Little did I know what was to happen!

I was woken up by an AB within 30 minutes of sleeping off along with a barrage of other men who were grinning away to glory