>>3742723Well, it's also called a line crossing ceremony. It's a humiliating, homoerotic naval tradition and a form of group hazing that involves a bevy of strange ordeals depending on the individual ship.
It is performed when the ship crosses the equator and involves a mock visit by king neptune, generally a senior officer in costume.
Alcohol is generally served as well.
It's one part harrowing ordeal, one part carnival.
My grandfather, a navy man had his ears pierced with a nail gun so he could have a sailor's gold hoop earrings.
It's really a bizarre tradition that's basically dead and sanitized in our modern world but yet keeps on
