Of course they did - I'm an ex-sailor myself. As long as nobody gets hurt (or maybe I should say permanently hurt) a lot of things are very funny. I once dropped a boat into the water - having neglected to put the bungs in. I knew what to do though - I boarded her and 'went down with my ship'. Only thing I could do at the time.
I was in the Navy as well and permanently hurt in this sense means crippled or dead beyond restarting. Scarring and near death experiences are still funny.
I recall standing a steam watch on the waist catapults on USS Ranger (CVA-61), falling asleep on watch with the charge valve slighly open, (it made a great lulling humming noise) and being suddenly awakened by the relief valve blowing off under the angle deck...honest to God, it sounded like the ship was being destroyed. Something like 500 lbs of live steam venting off through a six inch pipe, right over the side. Nothing to be done but to take the rap for that one...