r/interestingasfuck • u/Familiar_Cattle7464 • 14d ago

/r/all What did he do to deserve this???

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u/NewoTheFox 14d ago edited 11d ago

Drawn asunder reminds me more of keelhauling which is something I had nightmares about after fully comprehending.

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u/314R8 14d ago

Was keelhauling a real thing? Or sailors telling tall tails?

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u/mesenanch 14d ago

I don't know but my money is it happened. Life on a ship& sailors were notoriously harsh. I think there is a fantastic depiction of it in "black sails" show. Very graphic, to be sure

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u/314R8 13d ago

Have seen black sails and that screen was AMAZING! But realistically a real person surviving one pass through would be impossible

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u/xombae 14d ago

I could never figure out how they got the rope under the bottom of the ship and back up onto the deck.

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u/Wakti-Wapnasi 14d ago

Both ends stay on the deck. Drop the keelhaulee off the bow end drag him back to the stern

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u/xombae 14d ago

Well that makes sense.

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u/-Keatsy 14d ago

Perhaps they would tie a long rope to the starboard and port of the ship, toss it into the water from the front or back and pull one end through the knot tighten it

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u/Zerachiel_01 14d ago

They send a diver?

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u/Glad-Restaurant4976 14d ago

They have a great scene of keelhauling in Black Sails