Sea Fever and the Ocean's Colorful Creatures

[ABikerSailor]

I snorkelled in the Red Sea; and saw fish like these.

The most beautiful coral reef, stretching down to the coast of Africa.

While I did cruise around in the Red Sea, there weren't any opportunities for me to go diving. Part of it was because of the dress code we had to abide by while in Jiddah S.A., and part of it was because after we had left the Suez Canal and were steaming in the Red Sea, we would see big balls of sea snakes swimming out in the ocean. Because I knew about the snakes and how poisonous they were (a single bite can kill you in 20 min or less), diving in the Red Sea wasn't high on my list of things to do.

I have done diving in the Caribbean around St. Thomas, and also down around Key West though.

 

[ABikerSailor]

I think SeaBees was a term used by upper classmen for entry level (E-1)
Seaman Recruits, although it well may have been the E-2 Seamen Apprentices. It's not clear to me if Recruits are in the general training course (which was about 6 weeks to 2 months when my brother went in in 1965) or if it referred to actual first-timers on a Naval vessel, Seamen Apprentices.

Seabee is a term used to refer to those in the Construction Battilion, which is one of the 4 different apprenticeship classifications. They are Seaman (working on surface ships), Airman (working with aircraft and maintenance on them), Fireman (working mainly in engineering rates), and Constructionman (working with the SeaBees).

Airman have blue stripes, Firemen have red stripes, Seaman have white stripes, and Constructionmen have green. That is how you tell what apprenticeship they have entered into, by the color of their stripes.

As far as E-1 through E-3? One stripe denotes an Seaman Recruit, two stripes denote a Seaman Apprentice, and 3 stripes mean they are a full fledged Seaman. In the other apprenticeships you would use Fireman, Airman and Constructionman instead of Seaman. Generally when referring to a person who is E-3 and below, you would use the terms "recruit", "apprentice" and "Seaman" or whatever apprenticeship their stripes say they are.

As far as referring to someone who is a newbie? If you are in the surface Navy, you generally refer to them as "boot". If you are in the aviation Navy, newbies can also be called "FNG's", which stands for ******* New Guy.

Spent 20 years in the Navy as a Personnelman, and also worked at a MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) as Head Classifier for the last 2 years of my career, which means that I assigned people jobs based on availability and their qualifications.

Thanks, BikerSailor. Guess big brother didn't tell me all he knew. That song in a musical pretty much sums up why he might think better of telling me stuff:

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Not a problem. Correcting people on how the military actually operates is something I like doing, because I know that some people don't tell the whole story, and it can cause some pretty strange views towards the military.

Besides.................like I said, it was my job for over 20 years, and if you ever got a question, feel free to ask in a thread, or PM me if you wish.

 

[beautress]

Bluespotted cometfish, Fistularia commersonii is a really beautiful fish found off Australian shores.

 

[beautress]

Trumpetfish of Florida Keys:

Considerably shorter than their big brother the Blue-spotted coronetfish. but they live in the Carribbean area rather than in N. Australian waters. They have different fin system.​

 

[beautress]

I think SeaBees was a term used by upper classmen for entry level (E-1)
Seaman Recruits, although it well may have been the E-2 Seamen Apprentices. It's not clear to me if Recruits are in the general training course (which was about 6 weeks to 2 months when my brother went in in 1965) or if it referred to actual first-timers on a Naval vessel, Seamen Apprentices.

Seabee is a term used to refer to those in the Construction Battilion, which is one of the 4 different apprenticeship classifications. They are Seaman (working on surface ships), Airman (working with aircraft and maintenance on them), Fireman (working mainly in engineering rates), and Constructionman (working with the SeaBees).

Airman have blue stripes, Firemen have red stripes, Seaman have white stripes, and Constructionmen have green. That is how you tell what apprenticeship they have entered into, by the color of their stripes.

As far as E-1 through E-3? One stripe denotes an Seaman Recruit, two stripes denote a Seaman Apprentice, and 3 stripes mean they are a full fledged Seaman. In the other apprenticeships you would use Fireman, Airman and Constructionman instead of Seaman. Generally when referring to a person who is E-3 and below, you would use the terms "recruit", "apprentice" and "Seaman" or whatever apprenticeship their stripes say they are.

As far as referring to someone who is a newbie? If you are in the surface Navy, you generally refer to them as "boot". If you are in the aviation Navy, newbies can also be called "FNG's", which stands for ******* New Guy.

Spent 20 years in the Navy as a Personnelman, and also worked at a MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) as Head Classifier for the last 2 years of my career, which means that I assigned people jobs based on availability and their qualifications.

Thanks, BikerSailor. Guess big brother didn't tell me all he knew. That song in a musical pretty much sums up why he might think better of telling me stuff:

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Not a problem. Correcting people on how the military actually operates is something I like doing, because I know that some people don't tell the whole story, and it can cause some pretty strange views towards the military.

Besides.................like I said, it was my job for over 20 years, and if you ever got a question, feel free to ask in a thread, or PM me if you wish.

Thanks, ABikerSailor. As the years went by my brother and I were much closer. Our mother died about the time he'd served 6 or 7 years and he got out probably about 12 to14 years later, give or take a few years and moved to Corpus Christi, TX, where the Navy gave him contract work now and then to help him adjust to retirement paycuts. I enjoyed the few times we got to visit before he passed away about 5 years ago. I couldn't go to his funeral due to an illness and having to watch over my husband, who needed constant supervision before he died 3.5 years ago, and was no longer driving as well, bless his dear soul. I did go visit him the day before he passed away, though, which made me realize I was not in good enough shape to make the trip twice in the same week.

Thanks for your service to your country as a specialist in personnel decision-making. The Navy is a good place for a young man to grow up in a position of work he likes a whole lot, like my brother, who got a job to buy a wrecked car, which he fixed and made it drive really well, considering its condition when he bought it for a song. He hated school and bookwork, but he loved working on machinery, and the Navy just was the ideal school and life for him. The times he had to do 18- to 20-hour a day work was hard, but because he was so dedicated to making flight safe for fighting pilots, he was in seventh heaven career-wise.

 

[Mindful]

I snorkelled in the Red Sea; and saw fish like these.

The most beautiful coral reef, stretching down to the coast of Africa.

While I did cruise around in the Red Sea, there weren't any opportunities for me to go diving. Part of it was because of the dress code we had to abide by while in Jiddah S.A., and part of it was because after we had left the Suez Canal and were steaming in the Red Sea, we would see big balls of sea snakes swimming out in the ocean. Because I knew about the snakes and how poisonous they were (a single bite can kill you in 20 min or less), diving in the Red Sea wasn't high on my list of things to do.

I have done diving in the Caribbean around St. Thomas, and also down around Key West though.

I didn't go to Egypt. I was in Israel. Also went on a sailboat cruise in the Red Sea there.

 

[beautress]

This is a video on the Lembeh Strait, where unique and rare species are found. It's so long, though, it makes me wish i had a giant tv-sized monitor to fall asleep with after a long day sewing.

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[beautress]

map of the Lembeh Strait

 

[ABikerSailor]

I snorkelled in the Red Sea; and saw fish like these.

The most beautiful coral reef, stretching down to the coast of Africa.

While I did cruise around in the Red Sea, there weren't any opportunities for me to go diving. Part of it was because of the dress code we had to abide by while in Jiddah S.A., and part of it was because after we had left the Suez Canal and were steaming in the Red Sea, we would see big balls of sea snakes swimming out in the ocean. Because I knew about the snakes and how poisonous they were (a single bite can kill you in 20 min or less), diving in the Red Sea wasn't high on my list of things to do.

I have done diving in the Caribbean around St. Thomas, and also down around Key West though.

I didn't go to Egypt. I was in Israel. Also went on a sailboat cruise in the Red Sea there.

If you went to Israel, you didn't get anywhere near the Red Sea, as Israel only borders the Mediterranean. I know, I spent 10 of the 20 years I was in the Navy floating around that area on deployment. In order to get to the Red Sea, you must leave the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal, and the Red Sea is on the other side.

The Red Sea is the area of water between the east coast of Africa and the west coast of Saudi Arabia.

 

[Mindful]

I snorkelled in the Red Sea; and saw fish like these.

The most beautiful coral reef, stretching down to the coast of Africa.

While I did cruise around in the Red Sea, there weren't any opportunities for me to go diving. Part of it was because of the dress code we had to abide by while in Jiddah S.A., and part of it was because after we had left the Suez Canal and were steaming in the Red Sea, we would see big balls of sea snakes swimming out in the ocean. Because I knew about the snakes and how poisonous they were (a single bite can kill you in 20 min or less), diving in the Red Sea wasn't high on my list of things to do.

I have done diving in the Caribbean around St. Thomas, and also down around Key West though.

I didn't go to Egypt. I was in Israel. Also went on a sailboat cruise in the Red Sea there.

If you went to Israel, you didn't get anywhere near the Red Sea, as Israel only borders the Mediterranean. I know, I spent 10 of the 20 years I was in the Navy floating around that area on deployment. In order to get to the Red Sea, you must leave the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal, and the Red Sea is on the other side.

The Red Sea is the area of water between the east coast of Africa and the west coast of Saudi Arabia.

Eilat, or Umm Al-Rashrash sometimes in Arabic, is Israel's southernmost city with a population of, a busy port and popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on what is known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat and in Jordan as the Gulf of Aqaba. The city is considered a tourist destination for domestic and international tourists heading to Israel.Wikipedia

 

[ABikerSailor]

I snorkelled in the Red Sea; and saw fish like these.

The most beautiful coral reef, stretching down to the coast of Africa.

While I did cruise around in the Red Sea, there weren't any opportunities for me to go diving. Part of it was because of the dress code we had to abide by while in Jiddah S.A., and part of it was because after we had left the Suez Canal and were steaming in the Red Sea, we would see big balls of sea snakes swimming out in the ocean. Because I knew about the snakes and how poisonous they were (a single bite can kill you in 20 min or less), diving in the Red Sea wasn't high on my list of things to do.

I have done diving in the Caribbean around St. Thomas, and also down around Key West though.

I didn't go to Egypt. I was in Israel. Also went on a sailboat cruise in the Red Sea there.

If you went to Israel, you didn't get anywhere near the Red Sea, as Israel only borders the Mediterranean. I know, I spent 10 of the 20 years I was in the Navy floating around that area on deployment. In order to get to the Red Sea, you must leave the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal, and the Red Sea is on the other side.

The Red Sea is the area of water between the east coast of Africa and the west coast of Saudi Arabia.

Eilat, or Umm Al-Rashrash sometimes in Arabic, is Israel's southernmost city with a population of, a busy port and popular resort at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on what is known in Israel as the Gulf of Eilat and in Jordan as the Gulf of Aqaba. The city is considered a tourist destination for domestic and international tourists heading to Israel.Wikipedia

Thank you! You taught me something that I didn't know. All the time I was running around over there, I never knew that Israel bordered the Red Sea. I learned something new today.

 

[beautress]

Not to change the subject, but I couldn't get over the 8-point starfish someone shared at another site, San Fernandez Island of Chili. The other fish are pretty also, but that 8-footed creature got my attention.

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[beautress]

The Sea of Cortez
aka The Vermillion Sea
aka Gulf of California

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[beautress]

Creatures found while searching for the tropical sea creatures of Baja/California Gulf area:

 

[beautress]

More from the Sea of Cortez' animals ~

 

[beautress]

Sea of Cortez tropical fish

 

[beautress]

Sea of Cortez

 

[Desperado]

School of Yellow Tail Off Key West

 

[Desperado]

Spotted Moray South Biscayne Bay

 

[Desperado]

Biscayne Bay