What is Davy Jones locker and the story behind it?

Answer 1

Davy Jones' Locker is an idiom for the bottom of the sea — the resting place of drowned seamen. It is used as a euphemism for death at sea (e.g. to be "sent to Davy Jones' Locker"); Davy Jones is a nickname (used primarily by sailors) for what would be the devil of the seas.

The earliest known reference to Davy Jones occurs in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by Tobias Smollett, published in 1751:

This same Davy Jones, according to the mythology of sailors, is the fiend that presides over all the evil spirits of the deep, and is often seen in various shapes, perching among the rigging on the eve of hurricanes, ship-wrecks, and other disasters to which sea-faring life is exposed, warning the devoted wretch of death and woe.
He is described as having saucer eyes, three rows of teeth, horns, a tail, and blue smoke coming from his nostrils. The term appears to have been common among sailors, as the name Davy Jones appears often in popular nautical literature.

As is common with slang, the exact origin of "Davy Jones" is hard to discover. These explanations have been proposed:

A pub owner named David Jones who used to incapacitate helpless drinkers in his ale locker, and send them off aboard ships.

Duffer Jones, a notoriously myopic sailor who often found himself overboard.

Davy comes from Duppy, a West Indian term for ghost, or from Saint David, also known as Dewi, the patron saint of Wales, while Jones comes from the prophet Jonah.

A euphemism for a "Devil Jonah"; Jonah being a term referring to any bad luck on the ocean.

David Jones, a pirate on the Indian Ocean in the 1630s. - Jan Rogoziński, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Pirates, Ware, Hertfordshire, 1997

A Hindu sea goddess is named Deva Lokah.

Only the first theory explains the locker. The name may have originated in Wales, where David Jones is a common name.

Answer 2

The taking position that gave upward push to the former mariners tale of 'Davy Jones Locker' is an engaging one. David (Davy Sawbones) Jones became a deliver's health care provider contained in the late seventeen 1000's. Dr. Jones used to keep the limbs he sawed off sailors with gangrene in a locker and through off-duty moments, feed the sharks with the off-cuts. for the time of one operation that went horribly incorrect, Davy on the lurching of the deliver by coincidence sawed of his personal leg and fell backwards overboard acceptable into the mouth of a bottle=nosed shark. His leg became preserved and is now contained in the Treasure Island Maritime Museum erroneously labelled as once belonging to 'lengthy John Silver'. The connected shoes supplies us the clue 'Evan's the Shoe, Cardiff (length ninety one/2).'

Answer 3

Pretty easy to find
http://dusk2.geo.orst.edu/djl/djl.html

Answer 4

the ever after. this is about as good of an explanation as any