One time when we crossed the Arctic Circle an officer decided he didn’t want to submit to the indignity of the Blue Nose ceremony. He was able to hide out until it was over, although we really didn’t look very hard for him. The Skipper teased him for the whole rest of the patrol that he wasn’t going to get his Blue Nose card, but relented in the end.
As a Marine my unit was deployed to the Med as part of a Battalion Landing Team attached to the Navy's 6th Fleet. Upon wrapping up our tour in the Med we were re-deployed to northern Norway for an amphibious landing near Andoya, Norway. Have my Blue Nose certificate to this day, it states the lat./long position of where we crossed the Arctic circle, this was back in June of 1965.