Chris Mobley

“(When ailing seamen were shielded belowdecks from the adverse elements outside, they were said to be “under the weather.”)”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“asked that each member of our team attach a little, plastic strobe light to his or her BCD vest. The strobes are cheap, they come with long-life batteries, and, when activated, they can be seen at night from at least three miles away. Anyone who travels over water in foreign lands, aboard foreign vessels, or who dives, should carry one. Few boat passengers or sport divers expect to be in the water after dusk. But all sunny days over a reef ultimately darken, and accidents are never planned. Which is why, each year, a surprising number of passengers and sport divers are set adrift and die. A strobe is the cheapest possible insurance against disaster.”
― Randy Wayne White, Twelve Mile Limit

“God forbid he should say he was on a ship rather than in one.”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

“wake of Columbus’s breakthrough voyage, Pope Alexander VI had, with an imperious wave of his hand, divided the world beyond Europe in half, bestowing the western side to Spain and the eastern regions, including Brazil, to Portugal.)”
― David Grann, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder