Why do they call the bottom of the sea “Davy Jones Locker”?
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 Duffy, a West Indian term for ghost, or from Saint David, also known as Dewi, the patron saint o
