If there's one thing every sailor in every navy learned how to do, it was hurry up and wait.

Fresh water, these same sailors soon learned, could be extracted from the very icebergs that blocked their progress and otherwise threatened their lives.

But young sailors learn to drink.

It was established so that potential sailors could learn navigation and mathematicians could train at the school.

That's why so few sailors learn to swim.

That's how sailors first learned to know what direction they were going in.

Meeting at the reserve at 08:00 on Wednesday, the sailors learned of Fraser's remarks.

It was a trick torpedoed sailors had learned centuries before.

Maybe sailors learned something from Mike Plant's rush to get into open waters with an untested boat.

Professional sailors have learned to make these quick decisions.