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Don, you are kidding right? I is just as rude to request that someone follow a unreasonable request! Does a captain have a right to say no woman? No red heads? No medication for an illness? As I said, a publicly operated dive boat can't dictate your diet or the cloths you wear! Confiscating someones banana is the same as stealing! What next taking your shirt because its not the right color?

I do have a right to tell the locals eating other people or killing animals for sacrifice is wrong! That truth shall set you free!

I would pity the poor captain that made an unreasonable request of me or anyone else! Remember the Kane Mutiny? Over Ice Cream! And? :popcorn:

Over react much?! Geesshhh....

On the water the captain is in charge. It is more or less his country you are floating on. Even the Coast Guard will make accomodations to certain fishermen's superstitions.
 
When locals for what ever reason ask you to respect their traditions and you throw a spoiled child fit, wahhhh, waahhhhhh, I want my bannannas. OK, you would be off my boat and when I get back to dock my tipless crew and I would also inform our fellow charter crews and skippers what a spoiled and rotten banmanna baby you are and they will not take you out and you will be left going waaahhhhh, waaaahhhhh, nobdy will take my spoiled rear out, waaaahhhhh. I would be tempted to put you out with your bannanas and tell you which way shore is. Don't mess with the skipper, he is the ONE god onboard that boat you need concern yourself with. Scuba has a few decades of traditions but people who work and live on the water have thousands of years of tradition, some local, some universal, silly or not and some follow them and need not offer spoiled guests any explanation. It is rather presumptive to think you know better than people who may have been doing what they do for generations. Oooops, I just dropped your camera overboard, guess you should have left that bannanas on the dock like I asked you to, they are bad luck you know on a boat. :O

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First time to hear about that!
Now, what about banana exporters? how do they ship? how the freight boats mariners feel?
 
First time to hear about that!
Now, what about banana exporters? how do they ship? how the freight boats mariners feel?
Probly part of the origin of the superstition/tradition...

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The Evils of the Banana

Bananas are a mainstay of most cultures and are the world’s most popular fruit. However, these deliciously yellow treats have no place at sea. Since the 1700’s, it has been widely believed that having a banana on board was an omen of disaster.

In the early 1700’s, during the height of the Spanish’s South Atlantic and Caribbean trading empire, it was observed that nearly every ship that disappeared at sea and did not make its destination was carrying a cargo of bananas. This gave rise to the belief that hauling bananas was a dangerous prospect. There are other documented origins to this superstition as well.

Another explanation for the banana superstition is that the fastest sailing ships used to carry bananas from the tropics to U.S. ports along the East Coast to land the bananas before they could spoil,” Chahoc said. “The banana boats were so fast that fishermen never caught anything while trolling for fish from them, and that’s where the superstition got started.

Another theory is that bananas carried aboard slave ships fermented and gave off methane gas, which would be trapped below deck. Anyone in the hold, including cargoes of imprisoned humanity, would succumb to the poisoned air, and anyone trying to climb down into the hold to help them would fall prey to the dangerous gas.

And finally, one of the better known dangers of bananas at sea, is that a species of spider with a lethal bite likes to hide in bunches of bananas. Crewmen suddenly dying of spider bites after bananas are brought aboard certainly would be considered a bad omen resulting in the cargo being tossed into the sea.

Any of these scenarios could be the reason behind fishermen’s mistrust of the yellow fruit, possibly all of them. Whatever the case may be, it is best that you don’t attempt to bring any bananas on board your next seafaring excursion, just to be safe.

10 more years tho and it may not matter. They may be gone - see: The Banana Plant Is Doomed :11:
 
Well we never have answered the question about woman! The captain is not god and now one has to follow an illegal or immoral request! Stop being sheep and be men! You would eat someone because it was the tradition or superstition? Please there is no law against bananas and it would be an illegal request and no one has to follow like sheep! Ba ba be a good little sheep! You have to draw a line in the sand somewhere and go ahead and tell your buddy captains you through someone off your tub because of a banana! LOL real adult! You don't have to site maritime law to me and tell everyone how important the captain is and that he can order someone to walk the plank, because it has to be a lawful order in the first place! SO when is someone going to tell me how this squares with woman being bad luck? Do you have the right as captain to deny boarding or passage to a woman? If you think you do for bananas then you must for woman! I pity the fool! Once we got back to the dock I would file a police report for theft! :popcorn:
 
When locals for what ever reason ask you to respect their traditions and you throw a spoiled child fit, wahhhh, waahhhhhh, I want my bannannas. OK, you would be off my boat and when I get back to dock my tipless crew and I would also inform our fellow charter crews and skippers what a spoiled and rotten banmanna baby you are and they will not take you out and you will be left going waaahhhhh, waaaahhhhh, nobdy will take my spoiled rear out, waaaahhhhh. I would be tempted to put you out with your bannanas and tell you which way shore is. Don't mess with the skipper, he is the ONE god onboard that boat you need concern yourself with. Scuba has a few decades of traditions but people who work and live on the water have thousands of years of tradition, some local, some universal, silly or not and some follow them and need not offer spoiled guests any explanation. It is rather presumptive to think you know better than people who may have been doing what they do for generations. Oooops, I just dropped your camera overboard, guess you should have left that bannanas on the dock like I asked you to, they are bad luck you know on a boat. :O
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Where is your rabbit foot? Because did you know that Fijians ate people for thousands of years in the belief they captured their strength, so who are we to stop that! Please! I have no traditions other than dive and have fun! Oops better throw that salt over your shoulder and don't open that umbrella in side! Spoiled? You don't know what your talking about! Having air can do that! :popcorn: BTW I have more insurance and I am older than you, so drop away!
 
...did you know that Fijians ate people for thousands of years in the belief they captured their strength

Does this mean that I have to worry for my upcoming trip to Vanuatu? :D
 
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