What was made first, The Seafarers or Being Osama?
Being Osama Being Osama is an award-winning documentary produced in 2004 by Tim Schwab and Mahmoud Kaabour. Director Mahmoud Kaabour is the founder and managing director of Veritas Films, now based in the United Arab Emirates. Co-director Tim Schwab is an Associate Professor of film at Concordia University.
Line-crossing ceremony The line-crossing ceremony is an initiation rite in various navies that commemorates a sailor's first crossing of the Equator. The tradition may have originated with ceremonies when passing headlands, and become a "folly" sanctioned as a boost to morale, or have been created as a test for seasoned sailors to ensure their new shipmates were capable of handling long rough times at sea. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are nicknamed "Shellbacks", "Trusty Shellbacks", "Honorable Shellbacks", or "Sons of Neptune". Those who have not crossed are nicknamed "Pollywogs", or "Slimy Pollywogs"; in the Royal Canadian Navy they are nicknamed "Tadpoles", or "Dirty Tadpoles"; an earlier nickname was "griffins".