What was made first, The Seafarers or Being Osama?
The Seafarers The Seafarers is Stanley Kubrick's fourth film and third short documentary, made for the Seafarers International Union, directed in June 1953.
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".