Salty Dips Volume 12: "Who would have thought ... I'd end up here."

"To spin a dip" is a popular sailor's term meaning "to tell a story"—"salty" because they are of the very essence of the sea. "Who would have thought . . . I'd end up here" is the twelfth volume in the Salty Dips series that began in 1983. It brings together stories told by serving or retired Royal Canadian Navy sailors and details the surprising twists and turns that as members of the Navy they could not have imagined when they signed up to serve, plus a short story of a naval spouse's exp...