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<h2>The ocean is full of mysterious and terrifying creatures, strange phenomenons, but also a great deal of beauty.</h2><p>People who spent a lot of their time at sea get to experience and witness things that most people could never dream of doing and seeing. However, the risk factors alone can definitely deter people from spending months on a sailboat. If you&#39;re not a naturally adventurous, explorer-type, you probably shouldn&#39;t set off on 3 month boat excursion. After all, there was a time that sailors were so lonely and confused that they hallucinated half-fish, half-women out of Manatees and now we have &quot;The Little Mermaid.&quot;</p><p>If you&#39;re brave, though, the risk is definitely worth it. Dolphins, sharks, whales, birds, flying fish, bioluminescence--the ocean is magical. So, when a recent <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jfx325/sailors_of_reddit_what_is_one_of_the_strangest/">Reddit</a> user asked, &quot;Sailors, what is one of the strangest things you&#39;ve seen at sea?&quot; people who spend a lot of time on the open waters were ready to share their wildest sea sightings.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>The first time you see a large sea turtle is kinda strange they look like floating boulders.</p> <p>But the sea for as strange as it is is an amazing place as well seeing a flying fish or looking in the water and seeing fish as far as you can see is incredible. - Abyssus_J3</p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was out sailing alone and a couple of huge ocean sunfish came up next to my boat. They are so derpy, but the size of those things up close is pretty shocking. - david_bowies_hair</p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>A dolphin swimming with a sponge in his mouth.</p> <p>The crew member I was with asked if I knew why the dolphin has a sponge in his mouth. I didn&rsquo;t know, of course. He said because dolphins have no hands. - gozba</p> </blockquote><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>I used to be in the Navy, and out in the middle of the ocean at night can be calming and odd at the same time.</p> <p>One night, I recall the sea was incredibly flat and calm, even out 1,000 miles from shore. The sky was clear and you could see every star in the sky. The really neat, creepy, and vertigo inducing thing was the stars reflected in the water and it looked like I was standing inside of a sphere of stars.</p> <p>It really was incredible but it actually made me a bit dizzy because of the rocking of the ship and the feeling of not really knowing which way was up. - themeatspin</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;ve always sailed around Europe, so the first time I came into waters where flying fish are a thing was a trip. I thought I&#39;d seen flying fish before but it turns out those were just <em>jumping</em> fish. Flying fish really do skim over the water really long distances! They&#39;re magical. - 123wtfno</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>I wouldn&#39;t say strange, more just amazing and pretty rare. I saw the green flash one morning while on watch somewhere in the Mediterranean sea. Sea was smooth as glass, sky was gorgeous. I was on the bridge wing drinking my coffee and having a smoke just before sunrise and I happened to be looking at the right spot at the right time as the sun crested the horizon. The smallest brightest flash of green and then the sun started climbing. - buttmagnuson</p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>A unicorn pool toy. It was really big in the middle of nowhere. The only thing you could see was the toy and an island almost 20 mins away - Talia_is_bored</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8.</h2><blockquote> <p>I live in the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago to be exact. One weekend we took our little family boat to go anchor in a bay called Scotland Bay. It was about 10 maybe 15 feet deep, where you can easily see the sea floor from the boat since the water was so clear and the sun was bright that day.</p> <p>As we were getting ready to jump in the cool water, we saw this massive shadow slowly approaching the boat. It&#39;s width mirrored the length of our boat which was about 16-17 feet.</p> <p>Needless to say at my young age at the time, I was terrified. Everybody in the boat was getting excited as this lumbering shadow got closer and closer. My dad quickly put on his goggles and snorkel and jumped in the water, not paying attention to my strict demands to remain put.</p> <p>He dove under as we can still see him clearly, and then to my terror he was being taken along with this shadow, but there was no frantic movements. Dad was still looking calm as ever, and the creature was still moving along it&#39;s current course with no changes in behavior.</p> <p>Dad popped up for air maybe a few meters away from the boat with a huge smile on his face and yelled &quot;It&#39;s just a Devil fish!&quot;</p> <p>He had gently put one hand on one of it&#39;s wings and went for a short joyride. - JT_the_Irie</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was in a cruise boat and we were chugging along the very busy waterways of Shanghai approaching the area where the Huangpu river joins the Yangtze.</p> <p>The waterway is colossal and one of the busiest shipping routes, with traffic heading in all directions which creates a lot of large swells.</p> <p>I looked over the edge and down about fifty feet away and there is a man, he was sitting precariously cross legged paddling along on a door. - ledgerdemaine</p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>I&#39;m not a sailor but one time I went on a glass bottom boat tour. The captain accidentally went the wrong way to come back in and took us out to sea. There were maybe 60 people staring down threw the glass bottom in a 3 foot swells. Didn&#39;t take long before people starting throwing up. Id say about 40 people puked on the glass. It was a nightmare. Barf sloshing around. Everyone moaning, kids crying, women screaming. It was f*cking terrifying and disgusting. It was traumatic. I&#39;ll always remember that - arb1987</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>I spent a couple of years recreationally sailing in the Gulf of Mexico. I rarely spent the night out on the boat, but was out almost every day. I was out one evening with a friend who was visiting. I want to say it was between 10pm-11pm and the boat started violently rocking back and forth for a few seconds, even though waters were pretty calm. We can&#39;t really see much but we saw these three really dark and large shapes swim underneath the boat. Scared the sweet Jesus out of us, we definitely felt for a second that we were going to capsize and then likely die. - Dubscityg</p> </blockquote><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>Off the coast of Mombassa - a super pod of dolphins stretching as far as I could see in all 4 directions. Porpoising like mad - hauling a*s. Chasing sardines or outrunning orcas. - actualoldcpo</p> </blockquote><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>We found a human finger in a sea chest (basically a filter for sea water that&#39;s used to cool fresh water etc).</p> <p>The thing is though it must&#39;ve been pulled in when deep at sea because the chest was cleaned every 2-4 weeks and we&#39;d been deep Sea for 6 weeks at that point.</p> <p>Was creepy and we reported it but nothing came of it. - MarkyBhoy101</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>A bunch of us were smoking on the starboard fuel deck, and we saw the front half of a shark float aft. Like, cleanly cut, from about 4 inches behind the dorsal fin. Conversations went kind of quiet as about 45 people just stared at it and wondered about ocean madness. - dreamsofpoopin</p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>I was a kid, out sailing with my father and my cousin. We anchored, and me and my cousin took the small boat around to explore. We found what looked like a boulder floating around in the middle of nowhere. We approached it and noticed it was hairy. I poked it with my foot, it was a dead boar. - fresh_point</p> </blockquote><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>The most terrifying was a rouge wave. It came out of nowhere and rolled us hard enough that there were footprints on the walls. We lost power and sat dead in the water for a few hours. In the Atlantic ocean, days from anywhere. - originalsanitizer</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>Five rainbows in the middle of the ocean after a rainstorm - soulglo987</p> </blockquote><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>My mum&rsquo;s friend got lost at sea after her boat was hit by a storm. She was out there for days until she was saved by a ship that was close enough for her to use her only flare to signal them. She now believes in crystals. - klakkrr</p> </blockquote><h2>19.</h2><blockquote> <p>A glowing iceberg.</p> <p>I was on the bridge at night, it was getting fairly foggy out so we had to be extra vigilant. I started to see this little light on the horizon. I knew it wasn&#39;t another ship or shore light because we were in the middle of the Arctic Ocean with no land for miles. I wanted to get a better visual on it so I didn&#39;t report it right away. As time went on I could see this light getting bigger and it was looking pretty....icebergy. So as weird as it was to me; I reported it to my officer of the watch stating that it was a &quot;glowing iceberg&quot;.</p> <p>Super confused he took a look in the binos and what he told me....I will never live it down.</p> <p>...it was the moon. I reported the moon. - Richtofenia</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

19 sailors share the strangest things they've ever seen at sea.

The ocean is full of mysterious and terrifying creatures, strange phenomenons, but also a great deal of beauty.People who spent a lot of their time at sea get to experience and witness things that most people could never dream of doing and seeing. However, the risk factors alone can definitely deter people from spending months on a sailboat. If you&#39;re not a naturally adventurous, explorer-type, you probably shouldn&#39;t set off on 3 month boat excursion. After all, there was a time that sailors were so lonely and confused that they hallucinated half-fish, half-women out of Manatees and now we have &quot;The Little Mermaid.&quot;If you&#39;re brave, though, the risk is definitely worth it. Dolphins, sharks, whales, birds, flying fish, bioluminescence--the ocean is magical. So, when a recent Reddit user asked, &quot;Sailors, what is one of the strangest things you&#39;ve seen at sea?&quot; people who spend a lot of time on the open waters were ready to share their wildest sea sightings.1. The first time you see a large sea turtle is kinda strange they look like floating boulders. But the sea for as strange as it is is an amazing place as well seeing a flying fish or looking in the water and seeing fish as far as you can see is incredible. - Abyssus_J3 2. I was out sailing alone and a couple of huge ocean sunfish came up next to my boat. They are so derpy, but the size of those things up close is pretty shocking. - david_bowies_hair 3. A dolphin swimming with a sponge in his mouth. The crew member I was with asked if I knew why the dolphin has a sponge in his mouth. I didn&rsquo;t know, of course. He said because dolphins have no hands. - gozba 4. I used to be in the Navy, and out in the middle of the ocean at night can be calming and odd at the same time. One night, I recall the sea was incredibly flat and calm, even out 1,000 miles from shore. The sky was clear and you could see every star in the sky. The really neat, creepy, and vertigo inducing thing was the stars reflected in the water and it looked like I was standing inside of a sphere of stars. It really was incredible but it actually made me a bit dizzy because of the rocking of the ship and the feeling of not really knowing which way was up. - themeatspin 5. I&#39;ve always sailed around Europe, so the first time I came into waters where flying fish are a thing was a trip. I thought I&#39;d seen flying fish before but it turns out those were just jumping fish. Flying fish really do skim over the water really long distances! They&#39;re magical. - 123wtfno 6. I wouldn&#39;t say strange, more just amazing and pretty rare. I saw the green flash one morning while on watch somewhere in the Mediterranean sea. Sea was smooth as glass, sky was gorgeous. I was on the bridge wing drinking my coffee and having a smoke just before sunrise and I happened to be looking at the right spot at the right time as the sun crested the horizon. The smallest brightest flash of green and then the sun started climbing. - buttmagnuson 7. A unicorn pool toy. It was really big in the middle of nowhere. The only thing you could see was the toy and an island almost 20 mins away - Talia_is_bored 8. I live in the Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago to be exact. One weekend we took our little family boat to go anchor in a bay called Scotland Bay. It was about 10 maybe 15 feet deep, where you can easily see the sea floor from the boat since the water was so clear and the sun was bright that day. As we were getting ready to jump in the cool water, we saw this massive shadow slowly approaching the boat. It&#39;s width mirrored the length of our boat which was about 16-17 feet. Needless to say at my young age at the time, I was terrified. Everybody in the boat was getting excited as this lumbering shadow got closer and closer. My dad quickly put on his goggles and snorkel and jumped in the water, not paying attention to my strict demands to remain put. He dove under as we can still see him clearly, and then to my terror he was being taken along with this shadow, but there was no frantic movements. Dad was still looking calm as ever, and the creature was still moving along it&#39;s current course with no changes in behavior. Dad popped up for air maybe a few meters away from the boat with a huge smile on his face and yelled &quot;It&#39;s just a Devil fish!&quot; He had gently put one hand on one of it&#39;s wings and went for a short joyride. - JT_the_Irie 9. I was in a cruise boat and we were chugging along the very busy waterways of Shanghai approaching the area where the Huangpu river joins the Yangtze. The waterway is colossal and one of the busiest shipping routes, with traffic heading in all directions which creates a lot of large swells. I looked over the edge and down about fifty feet away and there is a man, he was sitting precariously cross legged paddling along on a door. - ledgerdemaine 10. I&#39;m not a sailor but one time I went on a glass bottom boat tour. The captain accidentally went the wrong way to come back in and took us out to sea. There were maybe 60 people staring down threw the glass bottom in a 3 foot swells. Didn&#39;t take long before people starting throwing up. Id say about 40 people puked on the glass. It was a nightmare. Barf sloshing around. Everyone moaning, kids crying, women screaming. It was f*cking terrifying and disgusting. It was traumatic. I&#39;ll always remember that - arb1987 11. I spent a couple of years recreationally sailing in the Gulf of Mexico. I rarely spent the night out on the boat, but was out almost every day. I was out one evening with a friend who was visiting. I want to say it was between 10pm-11pm and the boat started violently rocking back and forth for a few seconds, even though waters were pretty calm. We can&#39;t really see much but we saw these three really dark and large shapes swim underneath the boat. Scared the sweet Jesus out of us, we definitely felt for a second that we were going to capsize and then likely die. - Dubscityg 12. Off the coast of Mombassa - a super pod of dolphins stretching as far as I could see in all 4 directions. Porpoising like mad - hauling a*s. Chasing sardines or outrunning orcas. - actualoldcpo 13. We found a human finger in a sea chest (basically a filter for sea water that&#39;s used to cool fresh water etc). The thing is though it must&#39;ve been pulled in when deep at sea because the chest was cleaned every 2-4 weeks and we&#39;d been deep Sea for 6 weeks at that point. Was creepy and we reported it but nothing came of it. - MarkyBhoy101 14. A bunch of us were smoking on the starboard fuel deck, and we saw the front half of a shark float aft. Like, cleanly cut, from about 4 inches behind the dorsal fin. Conversations went kind of quiet as about 45 people just stared at it and wondered about ocean madness. - dreamsofpoopin 15. I was a kid, out sailing with my father and my cousin. We anchored, and me and my cousin took the small boat around to explore. We found what looked like a boulder floating around in the middle of nowhere. We approached it and noticed it was hairy. I poked it with my foot, it was a dead boar. - fresh_point 16. The most terrifying was a rouge wave. It came out of nowhere and rolled us hard enough that there were footprints on the walls. We lost power and sat dead in the water for a few hours. In the Atlantic ocean, days from anywhere. - originalsanitizer 17. Five rainbows in the middle of the ocean after a rainstorm - soulglo987 18. My mum&rsquo;s friend got lost at sea after her boat was hit by a storm. She was out there for days until she was saved by a ship that was close enough for her to use her only flare to signal them. She now believes in crystals. - klakkrr 19. A glowing iceberg. I was on the bridge at night, it was getting fairly foggy out so we had to be extra vigilant. I started to see this little light on the horizon. I knew it wasn&#39;t another ship or shore light because we were in the middle of the Arctic Ocean with no land for miles. I wanted to get a better visual on it so I didn&#39;t report it right away. As time went on I could see this light getting bigger and it was looking pretty....icebergy. So as weird as it was to me; I reported it to my officer of the watch stating that it was a &quot;glowing iceberg&quot;. Super confused he took a look in the binos and what he told me....I will never live it down. ...it was the moon. I reported the moon. - Richtofenia 

The ocean is full of mysterious and terrifying creatures, strange phenomenons, but also a great deal of beauty.  People who spent a lot of their time at sea get to experience and witness things that most people could never dream of doing...