What is the "ledgend" of Davy Jones locker?

Answer 1

It is the legend of a sailor who died out at sea. No one knew he had fallen off so they kept sailing. Now it is said that his spirit haunts the ocean and anyone who falls off a ship will get taken down to the bottom of the ocean by Davy Jones and unless they complete a task for him, they will drown.

Answer 2

One legend suggests that a particularly fiendish pub owner named David Jones used to incapacitate hapless drinkers in his ale locker, and send them off aboard ships. Sounds like a handy way of disposing of your enemies.

Brewer�s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable offers an interesting linguistic take on the issue: Davy is a bastardization of Duffy, the West Indian term for ghost. Jones comes from Jonah, the prophet who spent a few uncomfortable days lodged in the GI tract of a whale. And a locker, loosely defined, is a place to store valuable things. So the phrase "He's gone to Davy Jones' locker" (i.e., he cashed it in) loosely translates as "He's safe with Duffy Jonah now."

A random Navy Trivia page we stumbled across has some entertaining guesses: Duffer Jones was a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard. Davy could also come from the horned one himself, the Devil. The shortest sailor on board usually impersonates him during the the Crossing of the Line, a bizarre naval cross-dressing ceremony. The less said, the better.

Answer 3

spongebob. i think it is davy jones soks in his locker. it also had sumthing to do with the flying dutchman in on eof the episodes.

Answer 4

Wikipedia baby! You'll learn stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones'_Locker

Answer 5

but sometimes wikipedia does not help...but i guess you can try that...do research...and that is a good question there's alot of people who wanna know that

Answer 6

i would like to know that too.