What sea creatures are lodged in the face of “Bootstrap” Bill Turner’s (Will Turner’s father’s) head and face from the Flying Dutchman ship?
A starfish is lodged in his right temple, and a line of barnacles is attached across the side of his face and down his chest. (Starfish can be spotted in several spots in the Ocean Journey building and in the Seahorse Gallery in River Journey.) Is the giant sea “beastie,” the Kraken, in the film real? No. There’s no such monster combo of a giant squid/octopus with a giant ring of teeth that can crush hulls of ships and tentacle “mast wrappers” and “sailor snatchers.” But giant squid can grow to 40 feet in length and were widely known as sea monsters or the Kraken, and were greatly feared by all seafaring folk from Norway to North Africa to the Caribbean. (See Octopi in the Boneless Beauties Gallery on Level 2 in Ocean Journey.) Our largest salt-water exhibit mimics the Gulf of Mexico. Can you name some infamous pirates who plundered off that coast in those waters in the past? The Dreaded Pirate Roberts – He created a black flag with an image of himself holding a flaming sword in one ha
