1. 4 Use the "buddy system. " Always have your partner double check all critical knots and riggings, such as tie-in knots, rappel knots and rappel anchors.

2. Bur the floggings at the gangway and the floggings through the fleet, the stealings, highway robberies, swearings, gamblings, Blasphemings, thimble-riggings, smugglings, and tipplings of a man-of-war, which throughout this narrative have been here and there sketched from the life, by no means comprise the whole catalogue of evil.

3. Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys, produced by Hal Willner, has gathered up the usual outrageous, inspired, ambitious, sometimes ridiculously grouped musicians to record folksongs of the sea, from the call-and-response grunting and occasionally obscene work songs sung by men from the old seas who worked the riggings in